CenterPointe Campus for Hope

CenterPointe Campus for Hope is a nonprofit addiction treatment organization in Omaha, Nebraska. The facility accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance. The Campus for Hope offers treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and co occurring mental health challenges. They have residential and short term residential programs for unhoused, low-income adults 19 years of age and above.

Residential Addiction and Dual Diagnosis Treatment

The campus is located less than two miles from Omaha’s historic downtown district, Old Market. The Old Market neighborhood has art galleries, specialty shops, antique stores, and more. The campus is also convenient to Interstate 480.

The long term residential treatment for clients with co occurring disorders is an in depth program, and most clients are there for 4-6 months. The treatment team works with clients to help them understand how addiction and mental illness interact. Identifying and treating underlying mental health disorders is an important part of treating addiction.

There’s a short term residential treatment program that lasts about 45 days. Clients in this program also receive treatment for co occurring disorders. Both programs serve low income, unhoused adults.

Clients receive nursing and psychiatric care. They participate in individual, group, and family therapy as well as recreational therapy. Clients are educated in life skills, mental health, and substance use and given peer and community support and care management.

Street Outreach Substance Use and Mental Health in Nebraska

The organization also provides an outreach program called Street Outreach. This is for unhoused individuals or those at risk of becoming unhoused. The program provides basic necessities such as water, food, sleeping bags, and tents.

The program helps coordinate CenterPointe services and services within the community, as well as offering nursing assessments. Clients have to check in at least every two weeks.

Clients are assisted with paperwork to help document the unhoused population and to enroll in the emergency rental assistance program. For clients who have experienced an overdose or are at risk of one, the program offers harm reduction education and connects clients to services, such as accessing Narcan.