Dacotah Foundation in Fargo, ND

Alternative Care Services

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

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

  • Adults

    Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.

  • Alcohol Detoxification

  • 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.).

  • In-network prescribing entity

  • No formal relationship with prescribing entity

  • Other contracted prescribing entity

  • Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing

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

  • Drug or alcohol urine screening

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

  • Detoxification

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

  • Female

    Female

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • No payment accepted

  • Nicotine replacement

    Administers nicotine to the body by means other than tobacco, without other harmful chemicals found in tobacco. Common forms of nicotine replacement therapy are nicotine patches, nicotine gum or lozenges, nasal spray and inhaler. The goal of nicotine replacement is to prevent cravings in a tobacco user, allowing the person to abstain from tobacco.

  • No formal relationship with prescribing entity

  • Private non-profit organization

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

  • Residential detoxification

  • Residential/24-hour 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 education

  • Smoking not permitted

    Smoking is not allowed.

  • Suicide prevention services

    Services include identifying risk factors; educating staff on the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Young Adults

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

Contact and Location

4624 38th Avenue South, Fargo, ND, 58104

Phone: 701-298-7877