Helpline Youth Counseling Inc in Whittier, CA
Starting Point Program
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.
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
Brief intervention
A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
An independent non-profit accreditor of health and human services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Family counseling
A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.
Female
Female
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.
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.
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.
Interim services for clients
Male
Male
Medicaid
A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.
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.
Naloxone and overdose education
Outcome follow-up after discharge
Outpatient
Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
Outreach to persons in the community
Regular outpatient treatment
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.
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
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.
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 mental health department
Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring critical mental health services in their respective state.
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.
Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.
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
Adult women
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult women.
Contact and Location
14181 Telegraph Road, Whittier, CA, 90604
Phone: 562-273-0722