Community Alternatives Inc

DBA Community Choices/WISH

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725 North Highland Avenue, Winston Salem, NC 27101, USA


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Amy Morgan Wins SourceAmerica Award Amy Morgan, a manager with Community Alternatives Inc., was recently honored with the Charles "Chuck" Edward Hunt Jr. Career Achievement Award given each year by SourceAmerica, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide employment to people with significant disabilities. Hampton Roads Business Journal article

Kendra was referred to one of our programs four different times. The first three times she was not successful. The fourth time was different; she called us and asked if she could come back. We had an opening in our residential program, and we admitted Kendra and her little girl the next day. This time Kendra's attitude was different, and her willingness to participate in the program had grown. When asked what had changed this time, she stated that she had accepted she had to do things differently for her life to improve. Continue


Primary Focus of the Provider

  • Substance Abuse Treatment Services

Type of Care

  • Substance abuse treatment
  • Accepts clients on opioid medication

Facility Type


Treatment Approaches

  • Dialectical behavioral therapy
  • Substance abuse counseling approach
  • Trauma-related counseling
  • Rational emotive behavioral therapy

Facility Smoking Policy

  • Smoking not permitted

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, etc.)

  • Outpatient
  • Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization
  • Intensive outpatient treatment
  • Regular outpatient treatment
  • Computerized treatment

Facility Operation (e.g. Private, Public)

  • Private organization
  • State substance abuse agency
  • State mental health department
  • State department of health
  • Commission on Accreditation and Rehabilitation

Payment/Insurance Accepted

  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • State financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Federal, or any government funding for substance abuse programs

Emergency Mental Health Services


Payment Assistance Available


Language Services


Special Programs/Groups Offered

  • Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) clients
  • Clients referred from the court/judicial system
  • Pregnant/postpartum women
  • Adult women
  • Persons with HIV or AIDS
  • Persons who have experienced trauma
  • Persons who have experienced sexual abuse
  • Persons who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence

Ancillary Services

  • Individual counseling offered
  • Group counseling offered
  • Family counseling offered
  • 12-step faciltitation approach
  • Brief intervention approach
  • Contingency management/motivational incentive
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Anger management
  • Martix Model
  • Relapse prevention

Age Groups Accepted

  • Young adults
  • Adults

Gender Accepted

  • Female

Exclusive Services


  • Community Alternatives Inc

    725 North Highland Avenue, Winston Salem, NC 27101