Behavioral Health

About Us

The City Division of Behavioral Health is responsible for the development of a comprehensive behavioral health services system that includes substance abuse and mental health treatment services for low-income citizens of Albuquerque. The Division administers the following contracted services:

Centralized Substance Abuse Assessment

Albuquerque Metropolitan Central Intake (AMCI)
1258 Ortiz Drive SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
505-272-9033, 272-9187

The Division of Behavioral Health contracts with the University of New Mexico to operate AMCI - the centralized point of entry for income eligible citizens of Albuquerque into the City’s substance abuse services system. Licensed counselors at AMCI provide substance abuse assessments for adults and adolescents, and case management services.  Based on this assessment the counselor makes referrals for substance abuse treatment to the most appropriate provider in the City’s Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Network.

 

Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Network

The Division of Behavioral Health contracts with over twenty substance abuse treatment providers that receive referrals from AMCI. The size and diversity of the treatment provider network ensure that persons in need of treatment services are matched to the most appropriate treatment provider for the best possible treatment outcomes.

 

Albuquerque Recovery Program (ARP)

A one year methamphetamine intensive outpatient treatment program with intensive case management which offers a daily structure of activities based on the Matrix Model (an evidenced-based treatment practice). The program offers group counseling, individual counseling, Life Skills Training, recreation opportunities, social interaction, social support, family education, relapse prevention, and early recovery counseling groups. A highly structured behavioral approach is used during early recovery to build and enhance positive behaviors to replace drug using behaviors.

Positive social support systems are created through family groups, recovery support groups, recreation, social involvement and reconnecting with community social services.

Admission Criteria:

• A willingness to participate in an intensive one-year program that includes family involvement, intensive case management, and recovery support activities.
• A willingness to participate in weekly drug use screening.
• Clients must be 18 years of age or older.
• Clients must physically live within the greater Albuquerque Metropolitan Area.
• Clients must not be in need of acute detoxification or medical care.
• Both male and female clients accepted.

ARP Satellite Treatment Offices are located in your City Community Health and Social Service Centers:

Alamosa Multi-Service Center - Health and Social Service Centers

(505) 836-8732

Los Griegos - Health and Social Service Centers

(505) 761-6352

East Central Health Social Service Center

(505) 256-2688

John Marshall Health Social Service Center

(505) 848-1345 (Center will refer to appropriate treatment site.)  

School-based Substance Abuse Treatment

The Division administers a school-based treatment program in one Albuquerque middle school. The grant also provides for community referrals of adolescents to AMCI for assessment and referral to outpatient treatment services.

 

Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Special Populations

The Division contracts with community-based agencies to provide treatment services for the following populations: residential treatment services for pregnant and post-partum addicted women and their children, social model recovery home services for male addicts, treatment services for youth in the County Juvenile Detention Center, and outpatient treatment and case management services for adolescents.

 

Substance Abuse Prevention Services

The Division contracts with community-based agencies to provide substance abuse prevention and early intervention services for youth and their families in the metropolitan Albuquerque area.

 

Assertive Community Treatment

The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program delivers comprehensive services to individuals who are diagnosed with severe mental illness and whose needs have not been well met by more traditional service delivery approaches in the community. The Behavioral Health Division has developed two ACT teams in Albuquerque. The contracts to operate these programs have been awarded to UNM Hospital and St. Martin’s Hospitality Center. Each program functions as a mobile, trans-disciplinary treatment team of mental health professionals with staff-shared caseloads that deliver the majority of its services in natural community settings.

 

Forensic Case Management

The Forensic Case Management program provides intensive case management services to severely mentally ill individuals or individuals with co-occurring disorder of mental illness and substance abuse. Those served are typically individuals with minor charges leaving the jail and re-integrating into the community.

 

Targeted Street Outreach

The Division of Behavioral Health sponsors street outreach services to the homeless mentally ill through a contract with St. Martin’s Hospitality Center. The primary goal of the program is to facilitate access to housing, social services and behavioral health services for street individuals.  The program coordinates with other behavioral health outreach providers, APD’s Crisis Intervention Team and the COAST team to work with this population.

 

DWI Prevention Program

The Division contracts with a community-based agency to provide an evidence-based program designed to reduce the incidence of driving while intoxicated (DWI) in the greater Albuquerque area.

 

Families and Schools Together (FAST)

Families and Schools Together is designed to reduce the risk factors associated with substance abuse and related problem behaviors for children up to 12 years of age and their parents. The 8-week FAST programs are held at multiple sites within the city of Albuquerque, through the Albuquerque Public School System. FAST program components include: (1) Weekly multifamily support groups and (2) Monthly multifamily Meetings.

 

Child Witness to Domestic Violence Service

The Division contracts with a community-based program targeting children who have witnessed domestic violence to reduce short-term and long-term developmental and behavioral problems related to the violence that they have witnessed.

 

Administrative Offices are Located at:

Department of Family and Community Services

Division of Behavioral Health

505 Marquette Ave, NW, 14th Floor, Albuquerque NM 87102

Main Phone: (505) 767-5818 or 767-5820

Fax: (505) 767-5830