rehabVeterans Affairs Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Addiction treatment and mental health care
Ponca Health and Wellness Center
Behavioral Health Services
Ponca Health and Wellness Center provides addiction treatment and mental health care in Omaha, NE, with outpatient services. People seeking care can access cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and individual counseling. Payment options include private health insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare.
2602 J Street, Omaha, NE, 68107
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
- Outpatient
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
Opioid Medications used in Treatment
- Buprenorphine used in Treatment
- Naltrexone used in Treatment
Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
- This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder
External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- No formal relationship with prescribing entity
Type of Opioid Treatment
- Prescribes naltrexone
Pharmacotherapies
- Medication for mental disorders
- Naltrexone (oral)
Treatment Approaches
- Anger management
- Brief intervention
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Community reinforcement plus vouchers
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Matrix Model
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Trauma-related counseling
Assessment/Pre-treatment
- Complete medical history/physical exam
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for tobacco use
Testing
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- HIV testing
- Laboratory testing
- Metabolic syndrome monitoring
- STD testing
- TB screening
- Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
- Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Medical Services
- Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
- Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination
Exclusive Services
- Opioid use disorder clients only
Emergency Mental Health Services
- Psychiatric emergency onsite services
Who we help
Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Active duty military
- Adult men
- Adult women
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
- 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 experiencing first-episode psychosis
- Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
- Persons with eating disorders
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Seniors or older adults
- Veterans
- Young adults
Age Groups Accepted
- Adults
- Children/Adolescents
- Seniors
- Young Adults
Gender Accepted
- Female
- Male
Payment & insurance
Payment and insurance
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Other State funds
- Private health insurance
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- State corrections or juvenile justice funds
- State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
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
- Mentoring/peer support
- Self-help groups
Education and Counseling Services
- Family counseling
- 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
- Marital/couples counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Substance use disorder education
- Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
Ancillary Services
- Case management service
- Chronic disease/illness management
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Education services
- Family psychoeducation
- Illness management and recovery
- Integrated primary care services
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Suicide prevention services
- Transportation assistance
About the center
Facility operation
- Tribal government
License/Certification/Accreditation
- State Substance use treatment agency
- State department of health
- State mental health department
Facility Smoking Policy
- Smoking permitted in designated area
Facility Vaping Policy
- Vaping permitted in designated area
Facility Type
- Outpatient mental health facility