Salvation Army Wellness Center

Salvation Army Bell Shelter Wellness Center is a residential addiction rehab in Bell, California. This state licensed program helps adults with substance use disorders.

Treatment includes long and short term residential care, therapy, 12 step facilitation, medication management and recovery support services.

A unique features is that the treatment program is embedded inside a working homeless shelter with services built to address why people became homeless not just their addiction.

Rehab Built Inside a Homeless Shelter

Bell Shelter Wellness Center functions simultaneously as an emergency shelter, transitional housing provider and DHCS-licensed drug and alcohol program.

The mission of this 128 bed program targets the homeless population specifically.

Its clinical programming covers veterans, forensic clients, people with co occurring mental illness or HIV/AIDS and survivors of trauma, sexual abuse and domestic violence.

This  combination drastically changes what recovery looks like.

You can receive substance use treatment alongside housing placement assistance, vocational help and a dedicated service aimed at the psychological barriers to escaping homelessness.

Mental health care comes through the partnership with a mobile medical clinic that visits the Bell shelter three or four times weekly.

GED and Job Certification Classes

Bell Shelter offers on site adult education through the Los Angeles Unified School District with coursework leading to a GED, computer competency, HIV/AIDS awareness training or a security guard certificate.

Library and computer access support your job and housing searches during treatment.

This means upi can leave Bell Shelter with credentials and referrals not only a discharge plan.

Bell Shelter Wellness Center serves the Los Angeles metro area and accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and federal or government treatment funding.