Behavioral Health

About Us

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:

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

Behavioral Health contracts with the University of New Mexico to operate AMCI, which is the 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 make referrals for substance abuse treatment at the most appropriate City network treatment provider.  Other services at AMCI also include off-site substance abuse assessment, medical assessments, assistance with obtaining eligibility for indigent primary health care at the University of New Mexico Hospital, psychological evaluations for AMCI clients and psychological consultation as needed to network treatment providers for referred clients.

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. These are the current substance abuse treatment providers that have a contract with the City of Albuquerque.

Albuquerque Recovery Program

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.

• Patients must be 18 years of age or older.

• Patients must physically live within the greater Albuquerque Metropolitan Area.

• Patients must not be in need of acute detoxification or medical care.

• Both male and female patients accepted

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) 761-6353

East Central Health Social Service Center

(505) 256-2088

John Marshall Health Social Service Center

(505) 848-1345

 

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) 767-5826 or 767-5824

Fax: (505) 767-5830

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, day treatment services for adolescents, 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 purpose of Assertive Community Treatment is to deliver comprehensive and effective services to individuals who are diagnosed with severe mental illness and whose needs have not been well met by more traditional service delivery approaches.  The ACT team is a mobile, transdisciplinary mental health treatment team with shared caseloads that delivers the majority of its services in natural community settings.  A maximum of approximately 70 people can be served by the team and their services are available to program participants 24 hours per day, seven days a week.

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The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program delivers comprehensive and effective services to individuals who are diagnosed with severe mental illness and whose needs have not been well met by more traditional service delivery approaches. The Behavioral Health Division contracts with UNM Hospital to provide ACT services through an interdisciplinary team of mental health professionals.

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.

DWI Prevention Program

The Division contracts with community-based agencies 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 an intervention concept 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.  FAST is held at multiple sites within the city of Albuquerque, thought the Albuquerque Public School System.  FAST program components :  (1) Outreach – project will recruit whole families to attend eight (8) weekly multifamily support groups and monthly multifamily meetings; (2) Multifamily Support Groups – project will hold 5 to 25 family meeting per week for 8 to 12 weeks, depending on the age of the designated youth; and (3) Multifamily Meetings – project will hold monthly meetings after families “graduate” from the 8-week FAST program.   

Child Witness to Domestic Violence Services

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