CORE SERVICES PROVIDED

New Frontier (NFTC) would like to take this opportunity to describe the variety of programs and individual treatment plans we offer to help meet your special needs. Whether this is your first attempt at change or you are a veteran of a previous rehabilitation program we believe that our program can be of great help to you. Our professional staff and peers are available to help you achieve this goal. All agency programs are state licensed and accredited.

Our core services include several levels of residential treatment programs for adults and outpatient treatment for adults and adolescents. Clients are admitted into one of the treatment programs by referral from family members, a judge, a parole officer, an employer or as a self-referral.

After an initial assessment to determine the need for treatment, clients are placed into either the outpatient or residential program. Most clients in the outpatient program can function highly within society and usually have a job.

"The outpatient program consists of the client's coming in once or twice a week for individual or group sessions; usually at the request of the drug court," says Michelle Melendy, Clinical Director of New Frontier. Clients must stay clean for 12 months, and are subject to random drug testing. Those results are reported back to the drug court. If they fail a drug test, they are subject to community service hours or jail time.

The residential (inpatient) programs are more involved, and fall into one of three models: the social detox model, the high intensity residential program and the low intensity residential program.

THREE LEVELS OF TREATMENT AVAILABLE:

Social Model Detox

Clients who qualify for the SOCIAL MODEL DETOX program are medically cleared to stay at New Frontier, and have their vital signs monitored as they go through the withdrawal process while they sleep it off.

NFTC admits detox clients into services Monday thru Friday, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Detox screening may take place over the telephone or face-to-face in the case of a “walk-in”. The maximum capacity for detox services is 2 males or 2 females. Medical clearance will be required before a client can be admitted. Client is responsible for any prescribed medication.

• Medical Clearance
• Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol, Revised
• All residential staff have received detox training
• Status A
  • Vitals at least every 2 hours
  • Monitored every ½ hour
• Status B
  • Vitals at least every 4 hours
  • Monitored every 2 hours
• Status change based on clients current condition and drug use
• Clients that are outside our parameters receive immediate medical attention.

Clinically Managed Medium Intensity Inpatient Treatment

The Medium Intensity Inpatient Treatment client can expect to have a complete medical physical upon acceptance into the program, and stay at New Frontier for 4-6 weeks. Clients are tested for tuberculosis and sexually-transmitted diseases through the Community Health Nurse.

While living at New Frontier, clients are on a regimented schedule including group sessions, exercise periods, community-based self-help discussions and a weekly family session. Phone calls and family contact are limited so clients can focus on themselves and what is going on with their lives that led them to being at New Frontier.

The first week is an assessment period to determine if inpatient and any other services are needed by the client. If New Frontier Treatment Center determines that inpatient services can be provided, then the client will be re-evaluated each week to determine treatment progress. Clients will be attending group sessions, individual counseling, substance abuse education classes, recreation, and may be introduced to Twelve Step meetings.

"This is a completely structured setting where we try to keep out the pressures of outside life," says Michelle Melendy, Clinical Director. "We will transfer them to the outpatient program when they are stable enough to rely on their family support system or their job."

Clinically Managed Low Intensity Inpatient Treatment

This is a less intensive program and is a longer commitment with the possibility of up to six months depending on client’s need. Clients in this program have successfully completed the medium intensity inpatient program. "We try to help them through the normal things of life that they haven't been doing because of their addiction," says Melendy.

The underlying goal of the Low Intensity Inpatient Program is to facilitate life skills training, and to steer the client toward a supportive environment, whether that is family, church, a support group, or other mechanism.

Clients in the program are required to fill out a daily goal plan to let staff know their whereabouts throughout the day and obtain approval from staff. Clients are required to follow their schedule explicitly, find employment within one week of entering this level of treatment, attend weekly inpatient meetings, obtain a sponsor within one week of entering this level, attend group sessions and individual counseling, and maintain a clean living environment. Clients in the Low Intensity Inpatient Treatment Program pay weekly on their treatment bill, which varies depending on client’s income level.

• Life Skills Facilitation
  • Employment
  • Budgeting
  • Recovery Planning
  • Family
• Supportive Environment
  • Recovery Activities
  • Supervision and Monitoring
  • Individual and Group Counseling

From the Low Intensity Inpatient Program, clients transfer to the Outpatient Program.

Outpatient Program

Intern Supervisors:

• Ron Marrujo, MFT, LADC
• Jason Natwora, MFTI, LADC
• Theresa Lemus, Clinical and Grant Consultant

Counselors:

• Michelle Melendy, MS, LADC, MFTI, CPGCI
• Kathy Melendy CADCI, CPGCI, CLFC Advocate
• Debra Stroud, CADCI, CPGCI (Lovelock-Drug Court)
• Patty Schafer, CADCI
• Richard Dellar, LADC, CPGCI (Winnemucca-Drug Court)
• Rospi Welter,CADCI (Winnemucca-Drug Court)
• Paula Williams, LADC (Elko-Drug Court)
  

Special thanks to Ann McMillin and the Fallon Star Press for permission to use text from the article they published on May 26, 2006.