Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center, Iowa | Federally Qualified Health Center serving northwest Iowa | Promise offers medical care, prenatal care, behavioral healthcare, population health care, health coaching as well as dental and vision care.

26 Sep

Promise Community Health Center of Sioux Center will be on the front lines of tackling the growing opioid epidemic.

The health center has been awarded a $166,130 Access Increases in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (AIMS) grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. The grant will enable Promise expand its mental health services and to add substance abuse services – with a particular focus of addressing people’s addiction to opioids, which are drugs used to reduce pain.

In the process, Promise will hire a full-time mental health counselor and increase its behavioral health services from 11 to 32 hours per week.

Nancy Dykstra, executive director of Promise, said the grant will allow Promise to expand its current integrated and team-based model of behavioral health care with primary care. Promise will implement evidence-based screening, assessment, and mental health and substance abuse practices. Promise will enhance collaboration and referral services with local behavioral health providers and community-based organizations.

“Promise CHC will educate the community on the opioid epidemic and provide resources and tools to assist families on seeking help for family members,” Dykstra said. “This is vital to address the growing opioid epidemic in our community and nation.”

Promise was among 1,178 community health centers and 13 rural health organizations nationwide awarded more than $200 million in funding to increase access to substance abuse and mental health services. Iowa’s 14 community health centers were awarded more than $2.38 million.

“No corner of our country, from rural areas to urban centers, has escaped the scourge of the opioid crisis,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, noting that the HRSA grants will go directly to local organizations that are best-situated to address the opioid problems in their own communities.

Promise will immediately begin the search to hire two full-time professionals at 32 hours per week to support the expanded services: a licensed mental health social worker and a bilingual mental health assistant.

Once the personnel is in place, training will begin for the therapist, assistant and primary care staff to equip them with the tools to effectively screen and assess for co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders. Promise will engage experts in opioid dependency and abuse training for its providers and staff to monitor patients with chronic pain, prescribe effectively and screen for dependency.

In the meantime, agreements will be reached with area organizations for the management of complex cases of opioid dependency.

“Promise CHC will strive to develop a comprehensive approach to reducing risk for persons struggling with opioid abuse by increasing awareness of the opioid epidemic, the dangers it poses, risks of suicide and the appropriate use of naloxone to reduce opioid overdose through education that encompasses patients, families and the community,” Dykstra said.

PROMISE SEEKS THERAPIST:
To learn more about the social work therapist opening, view the job posting on Promise Community Health Center’s website at www.promisechc.org/careers/.

Promise Community Health Center Mental Health Team

Promise Community Health Center offers a range of mental health services. Our mental health team collaborates with our patients to assess current coping skills, address emotional needs and work through lifelong patterns. These services are available on-site and by Telehealth by our mental health department.

Promise Community Health Center is proud to provide bilingual mental health therapy in northwest Iowa. Our bilingual therapist can provide mental health services in both English and Spanish. Promise also provides our patients with a mental health interpreter who is qualified to interpret into Spanish for Spanish speaking mental health patients. Our goal is to make sure that our patients are able to do mental health therapy in the language they feel most comfortable speaking. We are happy to have bilingual mental health therapists and counselors and a mental health interpreter to provide accessible and affordable bilingual therapy in Northwest Iowa.

What can Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center mental health therapists help with:

Developing & exploring effective coping skills
Addressing emotional needs
Working through lifelong patterns
Working through difficult life situations
Developing better communication skills
and so much more!

Our mental health therapists and counselors in Sioux Center provide many therapies including:

Individual Therapy
Child Therapy
Adolescent Therapy
Couples Therapy
Women’s Issues Therapy
Online Therapy
Family Therapy

Our Promise mental health therapists are specialized and trained in many different therapies including:

Anxiety Therapy
Trauma Therapy
A.R.T.- Accelerated Response Therapy
EMDR- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy
Art Therapy
DBT- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Generational Family Therapy
Complex Trauma Therapy
CBT- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Trauma Services Therapy
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Therapy

Our Sioux Center therapists and counselors are offering services to the following in our northwest Iowa communities:

Children- Ages 8 and older
Adolescents
Adults
Couples
Families

Some of our mental health therapy patients come from Sioux Center, Rock Valley, Inwood, and Rock Rapids. We also provide mental health therapy and counseling for patients from Boyden, Hull, Sheldon, George, Sibley, and Spencer. Patients needing mental health therapy or counseling also come from Le Mars, Orange City, Alton, Hawarden, and Hudson. Promise is proud to provide mental health therapy and counseling to northwest Iowa.