Family Guidance Center Saint Joseph

Family Guidance Center in Saint Joseph, Missouri is a community based behavioral health organization offering outpatient addiction treatment alongside a broad range of mental health services.

The center connects clients to therapy, medication services, crisis support, and substance use disorder care across a nine county service area.

Substance Use and Court Referred Programs

Key features of Family Guidance Center include:

• Levels of care: Outpatient treatment, intensive outpatient, outpatient day treatment/PHP, and medication based treatment options.
• Populations served: Adults, young adults, older adults, women, men, adolescents, DUI/DWI clients, and court referred individuals.
• Co-occurring care: Integrated services for substance use and mental health conditions, including assessment, referral, and case management.
• Evidence based approaches: CBT, motivational interviewing, trauma related counseling, relapse prevention, 12 step facilitation, and the Matrix Model.
• Medication based treatment: Outpatient MAT options including buprenorphine and naltrexone for opioid use disorder.
• Additional services: Counseling, employment counseling, gambling disorder programming, and telehealth.
• Accreditation: CARF accredited programming for substance use and behavioral health services.
• Payment options: Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, self pay, financial assistance, and a published sliding fee scale.

Begin Your Recovery Journey

Getting started begins matching clients to the appropriate level of care and possibly coordinate referrals. Their integrated approach blends mental health and addiction treatment for adults and adolescents as well as families throughout northwestern Missouri.