The Basics
Seneca Nation Health System offers comprehensive primary care and behavioral health services to tribe members in New York’s Allegany and Cattaraugus territories. SNHS has been in operation since 1976 and provides outpatient substance abuse treatment in Salamanca, a small city inside the Allegany Indian Reservation, near the border of Pennsylvania.
SNHS seeks to create a productive life for the Seventh Generation of Native Americans and their treatment program is a multi-phase plan that combines treatment methods which aim to help clients recover physically, mentally, socially and spiritually.
Treatment and Staff
After an assessment, clients receive a treatment plan that includes group therapy once or twice a week and individual therapy as-needed—usually once a week. Clients initially commit to a 12-week phase of treatment. After the initial phase, many clients choose to continue with a second phase of treatment, also 12 weeks.
Therapy uses CBT and the treatment team includes CASACs and MFTs. Treatment in Phase One focuses on addiction education using the disease model of addiction. Staff help clients identify triggers and learn about mental health and wellness. In Phase Two, clients make a deeper exploration of relapse prevention, learning coping skills, anger management and how to create a healthy support system.
SNHS also employs a psychiatric nurse practitioner to administer medication for mental health health diagnoses, and clients have access to SNHS’s behavioral health team of psychiatrists and therapists for dual diagnosis support.
Clients struggling with opioid addiction can receive Suboxone from a local physician and attend a weekly Suboxone therapy group at SNHS. SNHS also encourages clients to seek out peer support meetings such as AA/NA and hosts an AA meeting on-site on Tuesdays.
Extras
For aftercare, SNHS has an “open-door” policy, and clients can attend groups periodically and check in with their primary counselor. Clients can also bring family members to individual therapy sessions for family counseling.
In Summary
For over 40 years, Seneca Nation Health System has provided outpatient substance abuse treatment to tribe members in New York’s Allegany and Cattaraugus Territories. Its treatment team is experienced in treating co-occurring disorders and is equipped to administer mental health medication and primary health care, making Seneca Nation Health System an effective provider of holistic addiction treatment to members of the Seneca Nation.
Seneca Nation Health System
Lionel R. John Health Center
987 R.C Hoag Dr
Salamanca, NY 14779
Seneca Nation Health System Outpatient Cost: No cost for tribe members. Reach Seneca Nation Health System by phone at (716) 945-9007. Find Seneca Nation Health System on Facebook
Do you have a complaint or review of Seneca Nation Health System to add? Use the comments area below to add to your Seneca Nation Health System review.
Sponsored DISCLAIMER: This is a paid advertisement for California Behavioral Health, LLC, a CA licensed substance abuse treatment provider and not a service provided by The Fix. Calls to this number are answered by CBH, free and without obligation to the consumer. No one who answers the call receives a fee based upon the consumer’s choice to enter treatment. For additional info on other treatment providers and options visit www.samhsa.gov.
