rehabDenver Health and Hospital Authority
Denver, CO
Addiction treatment and mental health care
Empowerment Program
Empowerment Program provides addiction treatment and mental health care in Denver, CO, with outpatient services. People seeking care can access intensive outpatient treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy, and individual counseling.
1600 York Street, Denver, CO, 80206
Services & treatment options
Treatment
Type of Care
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
Care setting
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Outpatient
- Regular outpatient treatment
External Opioid Medications Source
- No formal relationship with prescribing entity
- Other contracted prescribing entity
Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- No formal relationship with prescribing entity
- Other contracted prescribing entity
Type of Opioid Treatment
- Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
Treatment Approaches
- Activity therapy
- Anger management
- Brief intervention
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Trauma-related counseling
Assessment/Pre-treatment
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for tobacco use
Testing
- HIV testing
- STD testing
- Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Who we help
Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Adult men
- Adult women
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Seniors or older adults
- Veterans
- Young adults
Age Groups Accepted
- Adults
- Seniors
- Young Adults
Gender Accepted
- Female
- Male
Payment & insurance
Payment and insurance
- County or local government funds
- Federal Grants
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- No payment accepted
- Other State funds
Payment Assistance Available
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
Support services
Transitional Services
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
Recovery Support Services
- Assistance with obtaining social services
- Employment counseling or training
- Housing services
- Mentoring/peer support
- Recovery coach
- Self-help groups
Other Services
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
Education and Counseling Services
- Group counseling
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- Individual counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Substance use disorder education
- Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
Language Services
- Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Spanish
Ancillary Services
- Acupuncture
- Case management service
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Early intervention for HIV
- Education services
- Intensive case management
- Legal advocacy
- Mental health services
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Social skills development
- Suicide prevention services
- Supported employment
- Transportation assistance
- Vocational rehabilitation services
About the center
Facility operation
- Private non-profit organization
License/Certification/Accreditation
- State Substance use treatment agency
- State mental health department
Facility Smoking Policy
- Smoking permitted in designated area
Facility Vaping Policy
- Vaping permitted in designated area
Facility Type
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic