Beacon Center – Utica, New York

Payment Options

• Cash or self-payment
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
• Self-pay options

Beacon Center is a reputable mental health and substance use disorder treatment facility situated in Utica, New York. Both men and women can get full care at this center, which focuses on a wide range of mental health and drug use problems. 
The Beacon Center has outpatient services like an opioid treatment program and expert counseling for people with substance use disorders (SUD). The center focuses on making treatment plans that are unique to each client and take an individualized approach to care. The facility helps people with a wide range of mental illnesses, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This makes sure that clients get complete care as they recover. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), which is an addition to traditional therapy methods, is used at Beacon Center to help people with drug use disorders even more. Beacon Center provides telehealth services. As part of these services, full evaluations are done, and counseling sessions for individuals, groups, and families can be done online, so clients can do therapy from the comfort of their own homes. 
 The New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (NYS OASAS) and the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) have approved Beacon Center. This shows that it is dedicated to giving high-quality care that meets state standards. Beacon Center is very important for helping people get better and stay mentally healthy because it offers many different services and focuses on individualized care.

Treatment Options

The facility offers multiple levels of care, such as:

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services
• Discharge Planning
• Employment counseling or training
• Naloxone and overdose education
• Outcome follow-up after discharge
• Recovery coach

The center treats the following addictions and co-occurring disorders:

• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Screening for tobacco use
• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• Complete medical history/physical exam

Treatment Modalities

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Substance use disorder counseling
• Trauma-related counseling
• Group counseling
• Family counseling
• 12-step facilitation
• Intervention Services
• Contingency management/motivational incentives
• Motivational interviewing
• Anger management
• Matrix Model
• Community reinforcement plus vouchers
• Relapse prevention
• Individual psychotherapy

Conditions Treated

• Mental health treatment
• Alcoholism
• Substance use treatment
• Co-occurring Disorders

Levels Of Care

• Outpatient
• Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
• Intensive outpatient treatment
• Regular outpatient treatment
• Aftercare

License and Accreditation

• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)

Ancillary Services

• Mental health services
• Transportation assistance
• Opioid use disorder clients only