Youth and Shelter Services (YSS) – North Iowa Campus Residential – Mason City, Iowa
50 North Eisenhower Avenue, Mason City, Iowa, 50401
Last Updated: June 26, 2026
Insurance
Payment Options
- Cash or self-payment
- Medicaid
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- Private health insurance
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
- IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
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8.0
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YSS of North Iowa is a mental health center for teens and young adults in Mason City, Iowa. They focus on helping teens and young adults who are in foster care or who are homeless. The center helps young people deal with mental health issues and big changes in their lives by offering a variety of services, such as counseling, crisis stabilization, emergency shelter, and aftercare. YSS is a community-based group that helps all young people in need, regardless of their gender or faith.
The center offers programs for young adult men who are addicted to drugs or alcohol, as well as individual and family therapy, crisis care for people with serious mental health or substance use problems, and emergency shelter for youth in crisis. YSS also has special programs to help young adults who are leaving the foster care system. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), activity therapy, and managing psychiatric medications are some of the treatment methods used at the center. the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) has given YSS of North Iowa its seal of approval. Its goal is to meet the specific needs of local youth and their families by offering customized, community-based services.
Treatment Options
The facility offers multiple levels of care, such as:
- Mentoring/peer support
- Housing services
- Discharge Planning
- Employment counseling or training
- Self-help groups
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
The center treats the following addictions and co-occurring disorders:
- Alcohol Detoxification
- Opioids detoxification
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- 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 substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
Treatment Modalities
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Trauma-related counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Treatment for gambling disorder
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- 12-step facilitation
- Motivational interviewing
- Anger management
- Relapse prevention
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
- Individual psychotherapy
Conditions Treated
- Alcoholism
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Co-occurring Disorders
Levels Of Care
- Hospital inpatient treatment
- Short-term residential
- Long-term residential
- Aftercare
- Halfway house
License and Accreditation
- State department of health
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
Ancillary Services
- Case management service
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
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