United Community Services

4908 Franklin Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50310, USA

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If you or a loved one is ready to seek treatment for substance abuse, mental health issues or primary health care issues, United Community Services is ready to help you. Our caring and attentive counselors, therapists, psychiatrists and medical team will work with you to develop an individual plan that gives you the best chance for long-term recovery.

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United Community Services offers a wide range of behavioral health treatment services. We currently provide these services in three locations:  Des Moines, Ankeny and Knoxville, Iowa. We also offer primary care services through our subsidiary, Franklin Family Practice, in our Des Moines office.

Our approach to treatment is individual and holistic. We believe that addiction, physical and mental health disorders affect many aspects of an individual's life as well as impacting society as a whole. We provide practical approaches to the development of personal empowerment and continuing recovery.

United Community Services (UCS) is organized as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Any donations made to UCS are tax deductible. We accept most medical insurance plans, private pay, Medicare and Medicaid. We also work with clients on a sliding scale fee system. If you need treatment, we will find a way to work with you regardless of your financial status.

The mission of United Community Services, Inc. is to provide quality health care focusing on recovery, mental and physical well-being.

UCS provides care in partnership with persons served and in collaboration with the community to improve health and quality of life. 

Individuals served are the cornerstone of our business and clinical standards. Our relationship with them must be built upon honesty, credibility, professionalism, and mutual respect.

UCS, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.

is ready to help you.

Call 515-280-3860 or

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to find out how to start your recovery today.

We’ve completed our building renovation, added new counselors and medical professionals, and we have launched our new brand — UCS Healthcare. Now the primary health care services offered by Franklin Family Practice are integrated into the individualized addiction treatment approach of United Community Services under the name UCS Healthcare.

In the upcoming months, our website will be changing to reflect the new branding and additional resources will be available online.

Primary Focus of the Provider

  • Mix of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Type of Care

  • Substance abuse treatment
  • Detoxification
  • Methadone maintenance
  • Methadone maintenance for predetermined time
  • Methadone detoxification
  • Buprenorphine maintenance
  • Buprenorphine maintenance for predetermined time
  • Buprenorphine detoxification
  • Buprenorphine used in treatment
  • Methadone
  • SAMHSA-certified Opioid Treatment Program

Facility Type

Treatment Approaches

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

Facility Smoking Policy

  • Smoking not permitted

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

  • Outpatient
  • Outpatient detoxification
  • Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or vivitrol
  • Intensive outpatient treatment
  • Regular outpatient 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

  • 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)

Language Services

  • Spanish

Special Programs/Groups Offered

  • Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) clients
  • Veterans
  • Clients referred from the court/judicial system
  • Pregnant/postpartum women
  • Adult women
  • Adult men
  • 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
  • Transitional age young adults

Ancillary Services

  • Opiods Detoxification
  • Individual counseling offered
  • Group counseling offered
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Anger management
  • Martix Model
  • Relapse prevention

Age Groups Accepted

  • Children/adolescents
  • Young adults
  • Adults

Gender Accepted

  • Female
  • Male

Exclusive Services

  • Methadone and buprenorphine clients only
  • Methadone clients only
  • United Community Services

    4908 Franklin Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50310

Rehabilitation Process