Good Samaritan Shelter in Santa Maria, 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.

• Alcohol Detoxification

• 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.).

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

  Service provided for persons who are deaf and hard of hearing.

• Other contracted prescribing entity

• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing

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

• Benzodiazepines Detoxification

  Used to help patients safely and successfully purge their bodies of Benzodiazepines, or Benzos, so that they can proceed to the next stage of addiction treatment.

• Residential beds for clients' children

  A residential treatment program that offers beds for children while their parents are in treatment.

• Brief intervention

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

• Cash or self-payment

  Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.

• 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.

• Child care for clients' children

  A treatment program that offers child care for children while their parents are in treatment.

• Cocaine Detoxification

• 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 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.

• Detoxification

  Treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.

• Female

  Female

• Group counseling

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

• 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.

• IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds

  Direct funds from the Indian Health Service. They consist of tribal funds through 638 contracts (named after the public law under which they were authorized) and/or urban funds through federal Title 5 grants. These funds are considered part of the Indian healthcare system and can be used for programs that provide behavioral health services as well as for programs that provide other health-related services.

• Medicare

  The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.

• Methamphetamines detoxification

• Motivational interviewing

  A counseling approach which acknowledges that many people experience ambivalence when deciding to make changes. The aim is not to focus immediately on the action of changing, but to work to enhance motivation to change.

• 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.

• Opioids detoxification

• Private non-profit organization

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

• Pregnant/postpartum women

  Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Pregnant/postpartum women.

• Residential detoxification

• 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

• Other contracted prescribing entity

• 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

• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

• Smoking permitted in designated area

  A designated area in which smoking is permitted.

• 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

• Screening for substance use

  Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of substance use and needs treatment.

• Transportation assistance

• 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 permitted in designated area

• Young Adults

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

Contact and Location

245 East Inger Drive, Suite 103-B, Santa Maria, CA, 93458

Phone: 805-925-0315