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CLINICAL SERVICES

 

Services Available
  1. Crisis intervention
  2. Individual, family, and group psychotherapies
  3. Medication support
  4. Psychological assessment
  5. Case management
  6. Psychoeducation
  7. Skills building
  8. Assertive community treatment to prevent hospitalization

Innovative and specialized programs are available for women, older adults, and clients with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse.

 
Augustus F. Hawkins Mental Health Center
 

The Augustus F. Hawkins Mental Health Center (AFHMHC) is owned and operated by the County of Los Angeles Departments of Mental Health and Health Sciences and is affiliated both with Charles Drew University and with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Opened in 1981, it is located on the grounds of the Martin Luther King, Jr./Drew Medical Center. It provides inpatient, outpatient, and emergency psychiatric services to Los Angeles residents. Services are provided in English, Spanish and several other languages.

 
The Mental Health Center is dedicated to setting a standard of excellence in providing comprehensive, high quality, culturally sensitive mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults of all ages. The care is provided with dignity and respect by our multidisciplinary teams consisting of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, case managers, and others. Psychiatrists and psychologists on our staff are members of the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at Drew, and most are also members of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA .
 
The Institute for Co-Occurring Disorders
 

The Institute for Co-Occurring Behavioral Disorders is operated by the Department of Mental Health in collaboration with Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, UCLA, and the County Departments of Health Services, Children and Family Services, and Probation. The Institute serves as a county-wide resource for research and education on co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse. The Institute also operates a variety of clinical programs for the treatment of co-occurring disorders, including a crisis stabilization and outpatient detoxification unit, assertive community treatment (ACT) team, and a variety of outpatient treatment programs in the Augustus F. Hawkins Mental Health Center. Institute expansion plans include the build-out of the entire third floor of the KDMC trauma building to provide for additional clinical, classroom, and research space.