Orenda center

Outpatient Services

• Orenda Outpatient

Counseling services in an 'alcohol and drug-free' outpatient environment which supports recovery for individuals and families affected by alcoholism and drug addiction. These services include individual, family and group counseling provided by interns.

Intake appointments for the non-resident program are available Monday through Friday.

Crisis counseling hours are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9 a.m. and noon.

• 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.

• One 2 One Mentoring Program

Confidential phone line: (707) 565-7457

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.

Callers who use the confidential phone line will be connected with a mentor within 24 hours, who will meet with the caller at a safe place. The caller may choose the meeting location. After the first contact, the mentor will stay in touch as often as several times a week.

• AOD Problem Assessment Program

The Division, in conjunction with the Superior Court, developed, implemented and administers a self-supporting alcohol and drug problem assessment program for persons dismissed from the Multiple Offender Driving Under the Influence (DUI) program for the first time for a reason other than nonpayment. The Court may also order any person convicted of a DUI to the AOD problem assessment program. A part-time staff person is available to the Court to assess persons, so ordered, and the Court is required to review and consider the assessment report to determine the need for treatment services in addition to referral back to the DUI program.

Residential Services

• Alcohol Detox

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.

• Residential 31-day Program

This social model 31-day intensive residential recovery program includes 20 beds. Treatment is open to males and females who need recovery from alcohol and other drug abuse and focuses on the recovery of physical and mental health, including learning skills to function without the use of mood-altering substances.

Screening appointments for the Residential Program are Monday and Thursday at 12:30 p.m. Applicants must be Sonoma County residents and present as clean and sober in order to be screened.

• Long Term Men's Treatment Program

Two houses provide a structured residential program for eleven men, to assist in obtaining their goals of abstinence from alcohol and other drugs. This is a six-month program, and OLTMP clients have usually completed the Orenda Residential 31-day program prior to entering this program.

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.