Recovery Brands, LLC
📍 3810 Central Avenue, Kearney, NE 68848
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<p><strong>ABOUT SOUTH CENTRAL BEHAVIORAL SERVICES, INC.</strong></p> <p>South Central Behavioral Services, Inc. (SCBS) is a <strong>community-based provider of mental health and substance misuse treatment</strong> for children, adults, and their families. The agency has six locations in Hasting, Holdrege, and Kearney, Neb., and is among the <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/webt/state_data/NE17.pdf" target="_blank">63.2 percent</a> of Nebraska-based rehabs that operate as a private nonprofit. </p> <p>At its Kearney location, about two hours west of Lincoln, SCBS provides <strong>day treatment, outpatient counseling, and community support services</strong> designed to help people in their daily lives and social functioning.</p> <p><strong>TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT</strong></p> <p>SCBS's overall ethos emphasizes supporting clients by helping them to identify and work with their personal strengths. The agency is also committed to addressing all of life's complex needs, including <strong>legal, health, parenting, housing, and vocational needs</strong> that individuals struggling with behavioral or mental health concerns may encounter.</p> <p>SCBS’s Unity House in Kearney offers one of just <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/webt/state_data/NE17.pdf" target="_blank">four day treatment programs</a> in the state of Nebraska. Though day treatment is primarily for individuals aged 19+ who have been diagnosed with a major mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, the facility also offers a <strong>dedicated track for clients dually diagnosed with addiction and a <a href="http://www.recovery.org/topics/dual-diagnosis-recovery/" target="_blank">co-occurring mental health disorder</a>.</strong> </p> <p>Clients in the day program attend <strong>treatment for five hours a day</strong>, five days a week, plus participate in social activities on the evenings and weekends. The time is spent in individual and group counseling sessions, which are designed <strong>to teach living skills, including vocational and social skills</strong>, as well as help establish health and exercise regime. Special sessions also focus on healing from trauma and developing plans to prevent relapse. For clients struggling with addiction, programming emphasizes <strong>peer support</strong> and interaction with peer recovery specialists.</p> <p>Beyond day treatment, SCBS offers <strong>an intensive outpatient program (IOP) specifically for substance use disorder,</strong> which meets for three hours, three times a week, and offers gender-specific treatment tracks, relapse prevention planning, and aftercare support. Outpatient support for mental health disorders is available at varying intensities, to suit the client's needs, and uses <strong>evidence-based practices</strong>, such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)** and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).</p> <p>Designed to help clients live more independently, <strong>community support</strong> is available both at home and in the community. Each client is assigned a <strong>recovery specialist</strong>, an individual who helps identify a client’s needs and meets with them on an as-needed basis. They offer assistance with a range fo major responsibilities, such as searching for employment and <strong>finding safe and affordable housing,</strong> as well as with smaller tasks like completing paperwork and sorting through mail. </p> <p>Participants in both day treatment and community support also have access to <strong>service planning, physical health care, and case management services.</strong></p> <p><strong>STAFF CREDENTIALS</strong></p> <p>SCBS employs a diverse team of licensed professionals across its various treatment programs. Each participant in day treatment and community support is assigned a <strong>recovery specialist</strong>, but the broader team may include psychiatrists, <strong>licensed mental health and addiction counselors</strong> , registered nurses, and certified peer support specialists. The single individual polled by Rehabs.com to date on the staff's level of training and experience gave it four out of five stars.</p> <p><strong>WHAT ALUMNI SAY</strong></p> <p>Rehabs.com hasn't yet polled any SCBS alumni, but the Kearney center has <strong>stellar feedback on secondary sites,</strong> with four five-star ratings spread between Google and Facebook (where the facility can manage its own page).<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></small> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a></small> Alumni comments tended to <strong>praise the center's staff and programming.</strong> "Love. the group's and friends and staff," Robin wrote in one representative review on Facebook; "I like the classes and the staff. they help with what they can and if they don't know the answer they usually know who does," Brad added in another.</p> <p><strong>WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY</strong></p> <p>The single loved one polled by Rehabs.com to date would recommend treatment at SCBS. They praised the center's "well trained staff" and added: "Sliding scale fee so is affordable to all," but complained of "appointment interference." They gave the facility three stars for its holistic offerings, counseling options, and exercise and leisure offerings, and four stars in all 12 of the other evaluated treatment metrics, including its family participation, administration and discharge practices, and ability to treat co-occurring disorders.</p> <p><strong>WHAT STAFF SAY</strong></p> <p>SCBS has <strong>mixed feedback from staff,</strong> with a three out of five-star average rating based on four reviews on Indeed.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a></small> The reviewers repeatedly complained of <strong>heavy workloads and unrealistic expectations from management,</strong> which could impact the quality of care provided. "Was a great place to work for. Loved it until I was on overload with more job related tasks that they kept giving me and made me feel overwhelmed," one former employee wrote in a typical comment.</p> <p><strong>FINANCING</strong></p> <p>SCBS accepts <strong>private insurance and Medicaid,</strong> and is among the <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/webt/state_data/NE17.pdf" target="_blank">64 percent</a> of Nebraska-based facilities that offer a <strong>sliding fee scale.</strong> The single individual polled by Rehabs.com to date on the center's affordability gave it four out of five stars.</p> <p><small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=south+central+behavioral+services+kearney+nebraska&oq=South+Central+Behavioral+Services+kearn&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i60j69i57j69i64.1503j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lrd=0x87994e8d9fd75ca1:0x7cb17f688471f5ae,1,,," target="_blank">GoogleReviews</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/SCBSNE/reviews/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pg/SCBSNE/reviews/?ref=page_internal</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.indeed.com/cmp/South-Central-Behavioral-Services/reviews" target="_blank">https://www.indeed.com/cmp/South-Central-Behavioral-Services/reviews</a></small></p>
— Ellie Robins · 2019-01-25 10:50:29 PST
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