Mutual Ground Inc in Aurora, IL

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

  • Adolescents

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Adolescents.

  • 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.

  • Other contracted 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.

  • 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.

  • Children/Adolescents

    Facility accepts children/adolescents (17 or younger) for treatment.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients

  • 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.

  • Individual counseling

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

  • Intensive outpatient treatment

  • 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.

  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders.

  • 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.

  • Medication for mental disorders

  • Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere

  • Naloxone and overdose education

  • Naltrexone used in Treatment

  • Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment

  • Outpatient

    Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.

  • Regular outpatient treatment

  • This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

  • 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.

  • Other contracted prescribing entity

  • 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.

  • Screening for mental disorders

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

  • Smoking permitted in designated area

    A designated area in which smoking is permitted.

  • Spanish

    Staff counselors provide treatment in Spanish.

  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

    Variable prices for services based on a person’s ability to pay.

  • State substance use treatment agency

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

  • Screening for substance use

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

  • Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children

    Refers to treatment services intended to help their clients’ ability to function as a result of substance use and/or mental disorders. By definition, serious mental illness is someone over 18 having (within the past year) a diagnosable mental, behavior, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. For people under the age of 18, the term ‟Serious Emotional Disturbance” refers to a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder in the past year, which resulted in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits the child’s role or functioning in family, school, or community activities.

  • Trauma-related counseling

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

  • Prescribes naltrexone

  • Vaping permitted in designated area

  • Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)

Contact and Location

120 Gale Street, Aurora, IL, 60506

Phone: 630-897-1003