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Southwest Counseling Center -- Las Cruces, NM

History and Background

mesilla Southwest Counseling Center, Inc. is dedicated to providing the highest quality behavioral health services delivered with compassion and respect, and in a manner that enhances recovery and resiliency.

Southwest Counseling Center, Inc. will be the preferred comprehensive behavioral health provider in Southern New Mexico.

Southwest Counseling Center is the longest continuously running community mental health center in New Mexico, having been established under the Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963. President Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Center Act only shortly before his tragic assassination. The Center is a private, nonprofit community mental health center.

Background

Southwest Counseling Center serves a mixed urban-rural area of southern New Mexico. The Center serves the community of Dona Ana County. There are approximately 3,300 open client cases throughout the various locations of the Center.

Southwest Counseling Center, an agency deeply rooted in its community for more than forty-five years, is committed to providing services that are accessible, culturally competent, and culturally sensitive. The agency attempts to incorporate specific values, needs, and problems of the local culture into a responsive and beneficial treatment approach.

Despite a notable rural character, the area is undergoing a rural to urban transition. Residents of the catchment area have widely varying incomes and education. This area is the third most rapidly growing and changing area in New Mexico with a 2005 Census reported at 193,888 an 11 percent increase over 2000. The area has 23 percent of persons living below the poverty level. Rapid population growth is associated with the development of the space and defense industries at nearby White Sands Missile Range, the attractiveness of the area for retirees, diversification and development of the economy, which has attracted new industries, and the expansion of the El Paso, Texas metropolitan area. This rapid growth has placed increasing demands on the Center for accessible, culturally competent, and community based services. ristra

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Programs and Hours of Operation

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  • Nursing & Medical
  • Comprehensive Community Support
  • Psychosocial Rehabilitation
  • Transitional Living Center
  • Child & Adolescent Services
  • Serenity Center
  • Assertive Community Treatment

Outpatient Services M-F 8:00-5:00

100 W. Griggs Ave Las Cruces, NM 88001

Outreach capability & 24 hour continuous,

comprehensive crisis intervention program

(575) 647-2800

                                                                                                             

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SWCC has an interdisciplinary team within the agency

that has the capacity to provide a broad range of services.

The staff includes psychiatrists, a clinical nurse specialist,

registered nurses a licensed mental health professional and a

case manager.  For consumers who qualify, linkage to a

Prescription Assistance Program is available. The medical

team works closely with other agencies and a person's primary

care physician to ensure needs are addressed appropriately.

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CCSS provide services to consumers and family members

which are necessary to promote recovery, rehabilitation, and

resiliency.  Community Support workers assist consumers

in indentifying and addressing barriers that impede the

development of skills necessary for independent functioning

and provide skills training in those areas.  CCSS activities

address goals specifically in the areas of independent living,

learning, working, socializing, and recreation.  

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PSR focuses on teaching and supporting consumers to

develop the skills necessary to become responsible,

contributing members of our community.  The goal is

for the person to function at his or her highest potential in

the normal roles of employee, friend, student, parent, or

spouse.  SWCC's Friendship House operates using a

core set of principles and values, which focus on utilizing

the consumer's strength's and resources.

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125 S. Main Street

(575) 527-7920

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2941 Lost Amigos Ct

(575) 527-7981

                                                                                            

TLC is a 24-hour residential treatment program designed

to teach consumers the skills necessary to live in the

community in an independent or supported setting.

Behavioral and therapeutic interventions focus on

individual, consumer-centered treatment plans that

support positive change and decreased psychiatric

hospitalization.  This is a voluntary program, which serves

adults over 18 years of age with a severe mental disorder.

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The children and adolescent program provides

an array of outpatient services to seriously

emotionally disturbed children and those who are

at high risk of out-of-home placement.  The

program serves individuals between the ages of

two and twenty-one.  Individual and family therapy

is offered, along with intensive case

management, behavioral management,

home-based services, parenting groups,

psychiatric services and medication monitoring.

Serenity Center M-F 8:00-7:00

118 S. Main Street

Las Cruces, NM 88001

Outpatient substance abuse programs, including

DWI school for adults,adolescents, and children.

24 hour crisis intervention program

Programs

                                                                                                         

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ACT serves adults with serious and persistent mental illness.

Individuals who benefit most from ACT intensive community

treatment are generally people who are diagnosed with

schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders and bipolar disorder. 

In addition, many consumers have co-occurring substance use

disorders.

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