Turning Point of Central California in Bakersfield, CA

About This Facility

Directory information from SAMHSA N-SUMHSS 2025. This listing is not an endorsement or independent verification. Confirm current services, eligibility, and availability directly with the facility.

Services Listed in the Directory

• Aftercare/continuing care

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

• Adults

  Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.

• Anger management

  Uses strategies to address the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger-control plans. The goal of anger management is to reduce both emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes.

• Assistance with obtaining social services

  Assistance obtaining government services provided for the benefit of the community designed to promote social well being (i.e. education, medical care, housing, etc.).

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity

• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing

  A device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.

• Brief intervention

  A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.

• Cognitive behavioral therapy

  Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.

• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients

  Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for clients referred from the court/judicial system.

• Case management service

  Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.

• Comprehensive mental health assessment

  An examination used to determine if a patient is functioning on a healthy psychological, social, or developmental level. It can also be used to aid diagnosis of some neurological disorders, specific diseases, or possible drug abuse.

• Contingency management/motivational incentives

  A treatment approach for drug and alcohol use. This approach uses a positive-reinforcement treatment method in which patients are given rewards for constructive actions taken toward their recovery.

• Community reinforcement plus vouchers

  An intensive outpatient therapy in which individuals focus on improving family relations, receive vocational training, and learn a variety of skills to minimize drug dependency. Vouchers are part of an incentive program which enables individuals to earn points in exchangeable for retail items. This program is used to encourage individuals to remain abstinent and in treatment.

• Comprehensive substance use assessment

• Drug or alcohol urine screening

  Analyzes your urine for the presence of certain illegal drugs and prescription medications.

• Discharge Planning

  A process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from the hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community.

• Domestic violence services, including family or partner

  Provide safety assistance to victims of domestic violence.

• Employment counseling or training

  Advises, coaches, provides information to and supports people who are planning, seeking and managing their life/work direction.

• Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs

  Financial assistance provided by the federal, state, or local government for substance use treatment.

• Group counseling

  Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.

• HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support

  Access to education, counseling, and support groups to ‘at risk’ individuals and also individuals who have been infected with the virus.

• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)

  Involves blood test that measure HBV (Hepatitis B virus) antigens and antibodies.

• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)

  Test for Hepatitis C, which is usually done and recommended for persons currently injecting drugs, ever injected drugs, were prior recipients of transfusions or organ transplants, or have certain medical conditions, including persons: 1. who received clotting factor concentrates produced before 1987 2. who were ever on long-term hemodialysis 3. with persistently abnormal alanine aminotransferase levels (ALT) 4. who have HIV infection

• Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis

  Any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes.

• Transitional housing, halfway house, or sober home

  Housing for individuals recovering from substance abuse that is designed to provide a drug and alcohol-free living environment and appropriate support services to facilitate movement to independent living. Such housing includes transitional living, sober houses, sober living, recovery houses, and 3/4 houses.

• HIV testing

  Determines whether you are infected with HIV, a virus that weakens the immune system and can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

• Housing services

  Are designed to assist individuals with finding and maintaining appropriate housing arrangements.

• Individual counseling

  Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.

• Integrated primary care services

  These services address the general health care needs of persons with mental and substance use disorders. These general health care needs include the prevention and treatment of chronic illnesses (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease) that can be aggravated by poor health habits such as inadequate physical activity, poor nutrition, and smoking. The services include screening, care coordination with staff, and providing linkages to ensure that all patient needs are met in order to promote wellness and produce the best outcomes.

• Male

  Male

• Mental health services

  Assessment, diagnosis, treatment or counseling in a professional relationship to assist an individual or group in alleviating mental or emotional illness, symptoms, conditions or disorders.

• Adult men

  Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult men.

• Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere

• Matrix Model

  Provides a framework for substance abuse users to obtain the ability to cease drug use, stay in treatment, and participate in an educational program on addiction and relapse. Users are provided with direction and support from a trained therapist and are introduced to self-help programs.

• Outcome follow-up after discharge

• Outreach to persons in the community

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity

• Mentoring/peer support

• Private non-profit organization

  A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.

• Relapse prevention

  A cognitive behavioral therapy developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for treatment of cocaine addiction. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.

• Residential/24-hour residential

• Long-term residential

• Short-term residential

• Substance use treatment

  Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).

• Substance use disorder counseling

  A short-term treatment that has been generalized for a variety of disorders including opiate drug dependence and cocaine abuse. The therapy includes supportive techniques which encourage the patient to discuss personal experiences, and expressive techniques, which enable the patient to work through interpersonal relationship issues and gain greater self-understanding.

• Substance use disorder education

• Self-help groups

  Groups in which members share the same issue, condition, or situation and thus are in a position to provide help and support to each other.

• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

• Screening for mental disorders

  Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of mental health conditions and needs treatment.

• Smoking not permitted

  Smoking is not allowed.

• Seniors

  Facility accepts seniors (65 or older) for treatment.

• Spanish

  Staff counselors provide treatment in Spanish.

• State substance use treatment agency

  Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring substance use disorder services in their respective state.

• Social skills development

• State department of health

• STD testing

  Testing to determine the type of sexually transmitted disease a person may be carrying.

• Screening for tobacco use

  Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.

• Transportation assistance

• Hepatitis education, counseling, or support

  Provides education, counseling, and guidance and support for individuals who are at risk for or potentially infected with the hepatitis virus.

• TB screening

  Skin tests that are used to screen people who are at high risk for TB exposure such as people with diseases or conditions that weaken their immune system.

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

  Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.

• Trauma-related counseling

  Multiple types of therapy designed to treat clients suffering from a traumatic event(s).

• 12-step facilitation

  A 12-step program is a support group made up of people who share the same addiction. The 12 steps refer to the steps recovering addicts must take to overcome their addiction as part of this program. Attendees at group meetings share their experiences, challenges, successes and failures, and provide peer support for each other.

• Vaping not permitted

• Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)

• Young Adults

  Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.

Contact and Location

1100 Union Avenue, Bakersfield, CA, 93307

Phone: 661-458-6611 x2318