House of Mercy

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1409 Clark Street, Des Moines, IA 50314, USA

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House of Mercy is dedicated to making the community a healthier place. This commitment includes providing vital housing, health, wellness, and human services to those for whom access to care/services is difficult. Towards this end, House of Mercy offers substance-related/addictive disorders treatment and mental health programs to individuals and families in need of these critical services and supports. The primary goal is to exceed client expectations while helping them to create a healthy lifestyle and sense of personal self-worth and well-being.

Essential services provided by the House of Mercy include: transitional and permanent housing; meals; transportation; licensed childcare; individual, group and family therapy; addiction counseling services including relapse prevention education and therapy; aftercare support; twelve-step meetings; primary medical care; trauma counseling; education and employment assistance; and skill development training in communication, parenting and nutrition.

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Primary Focus of the Provider

  • Mix of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Type of Care

  • Substance abuse treatment
  • Naltrexone (oral)
  • Transitional housing or halfway house
  • Accepts clients on opioid medication

Facility Type

Treatment Approaches

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

Facility Smoking Policy

  • Smoking permitted in designated area

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

  • Residential
  • Outpatient
  • Short-term residential
  • Long-term residential
  • Intensive outpatient treatment
  • Regular outpatient treatment

Facility Operation (e.g. Private, Public)

  • Private organization
  • State substance abuse agency
  • State department of health
  • Council on Accreditation

Payment/Insurance Accepted

  • Cash or self-payment
  • Medicaid
  • State financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Access to recovery (ATR) voucher
  • Federal, or any government funding for substance abuse programs

Emergency Mental Health Services

Payment Assistance Available

  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Language Services

  • Services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Special Programs/Groups Offered

  • Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders
  • Active duty military
  • Clients referred from the court/judicial system
  • Adolescents
  • Pregnant/postpartum women
  • Adult women
  • Adult men
  • Persons who have experienced trauma
  • Persons who have experienced sexual abuse
  • Persons who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Transitional age young adults

Ancillary Services

  • Treatment for gambling disorder
  • Individual counseling offered
  • Group counseling offered
  • Family counseling offered
  • Marital/couples counseling offered
  • 12-step faciltitation approach
  • Brief intervention approach
  • Contingency management/motivational incentive
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Anger management
  • Martix Model
  • Community reinforcement plus vouchers
  • Relapse prevention
  • Residential beds for clients children

Age Groups Accepted

  • Children/adolescents
  • Adults

Gender Accepted

  • Female
  • Male

Exclusive Services

  • House of Mercy

    1409 Clark Street, Des Moines, IA 50314

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