Orenda center Services

• Adolescent Treatment Program

A full-time AODS Specialist and counseling interns are assigned to the juvenile detention facilities to provide assessment, education, counseling and case management services to juvenile detainees as Los Guilicos. These services are integrated within the DHS comprehensive health care services program developed for the county juvenile complex.

• One2One Mentoring Program

Confidential phone line: (707) 237-1441

This program is now run by The California Parenting Institute. 

The One2One mentoring program connects mentors from the community with women who are pregnant and moms with children aged 0-5 who are using or feel at risk of using alcohol and other drugs. Mentors are other women who have struggled with the same issues, and now are able to listen, share their own stories, share about community resources, and serve as caring role models to other mothers at risk.

• Alcohol Detoxification

Staff is available 24 hours a day at the Orenda Center for alcohol and other drug detoxification services. The Detox Program has thirty beds, open to males and females, in a social model live-in program usually lasting 72 hours. It is designed to provide evaluation and supportive services to assist acutely intoxicated individuals in withdrawing from the effects of alcohol and other drug abuse and plan for continuing recovery.

Additional four- to six-hour holds through law enforcement referral are available in response to requests from law enforcement agencies throughout the County. Orenda Detox typically accepts three to four of these referrals per day.

• Dependency Drug Court (DDC)

DDC is a court-supervised, comprehensive treatment program for parents and guardians whose children have been removed or are in danger of being removed from their care as a result of child abuse or neglect partially stemming from a parent’s alcohol or drug use. It is designed to be a voluntary twelve month program that includes regular court appearances before a Dependency Drug Court Judicial Officer, intensive case management, alcohol and other drug treatment, 12-step participation, and referrals to other support services.

• Drug Free Babies (DFB)

Some women are not able to stop using alcohol or other drugs while they are pregnant. Drug Free Babies provides the necessary support so that pregnant women can give birth to the healthiest baby possible. When prenatal care providers identify a woman who could benefit from treatment, they contact the Perinatal Placement Specialist. The Specialist makes arrangements to meet the woman at the medical office or another location to discuss the various types of support available and then helps the woman enter the most appropriate program. The County also provides technical assistance and support to prenatal care health care providers and labor/delivery hospitals as they implement universal screening for tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.

• Starting Point

Drug and alcohol counseling and education offered to male and female inmates at the North County Detention Facility. It is a pretreatment program for clients that are sentenced to treatment in the community.

1250 Coddingtown Center SR 95401

Drug Screening Program

Random pupil scanned screenings (PassPoint) are offered for individuals referred through TASC, SACPA (the PC1210 Court Program established with Proposition 36), and Drug Court.  Urinalysis testing is done for community, and other court referrals as well as positive PassPoint screens.  Testing analysis is done through Redwood Toxicology.