East Bay Community Recovery Project has provided Outpatient services in our Oakland office since 1989. In that time, we have continued to treat some of the most difficult clients in Alameda County. Long regarded as a leader in the field of co-occurring disorder treatment, staff in Oakland work with clients who have substance use, mental illness, and a host of other health concerns. We thrive on helping people who have not found success in other programs. We welcome everyone in the community, including those taking psychotropic medications as well as various medications used in the treatment of addiction.

There are six main components to our Oakland Outpatient Division:

Day Treatment

Our Day Treatment program serves adult men and women who live with substance abuse and severe mental illness. We provide individualized assessments and treatment plans for each client in order to better serve their needs. Typically referred to us for care, our experienced staff provides counseling, and other supportive services in a culturally informed and safe environment. As part of our services, we provide breakfast and lunch to our clients, who are oftentimes homeless, poor, and with very few resources. The Day Treatment program also has a small vocational component which involves teaching clients how to work in a kitchen environment while preparing healthy lunches for our Day Treatment clients on a daily basis. Every client is treated with respect and is invited to engage fully in our daily groups and weekly individual counseling sessions. All of this care is provided at no charge.

Groups include Seeking Safety, WRAP, life skills, anger management, vocational classes, and relapse prevention.

An additional component of our Day Treatment program involves celebrations. Throughout the year, our clients are involved in the planning and excitement of cultural and seasonal festivities. We also honor each client with a transitioning ceremony every June. This celebration serves to recognize the clients' progress and to say goodbye to the student interns who have worked with them during the school year.

Forensic Assertive Community Treatment
The Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) program in collaboration with ACBHCS, using MHSA Prop 63 funding, provides transitional housing and wraparound supportive services to persons who have a history of excess utilization of the mental health, substance abuse, and criminal justice systems in Alameda County. The goal of this project, by providing an intensive level of services to its members, is to reduce the quantity of services utilized and increase the quality and coordination of services received. These intensive supportive services include outreach, engagement, crisis intervention, peer support, case management, housing, employment, individual/family/group therapy, psychosocial educational services, and medical and psychiatric triage services.

Health Services
HIV/AIDS and HIV care and prevention are the cornerstone of a collection of programs housed within Outpatient services. Operating since 1989, we receive both County and Federal funding to offer care to the populations most at risk for HIV/AIDS. Since 2003, we have also provided support and education for persons at risk or already testing positive for Hepatitis C, as well. Counselors and case managers are available to support clients as they move through their feelings, the behaviors that put them at risk, and to help navigate through other support systems. Our goal is for every client to receive the most comprehensive care available.

New in 2009, a partnership with Aids Project East Bay (APEB) called HAPPIER was formed. This collaboration offers people at risk for HIV continuity between their primary care and behavioral health care needs.

Transitional Assertive Community Treatment "TrACT"
The Behavioral Health Court (BHC); Transitional ACT Team (TrACT), using MHSA (Prop 63) funding through Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services, focuses specifically on supporting individuals directly in a therapeutic court setting. The TrACT program will work in collaboration with staff from the Criminal Justice Mental Health Program, representatives from the public defenders office, the district attorneys office, the probation department, and the judge representing Alameda County Superior Court.

The BHC is designed to provide intensive community-based treatment for persons experiencing severe mental illness whose qualifying crimes result from that illness. We recognize that jails and prisons are poorly suited to rehabilitate these individuals and meet their special needs. In providing intensive case management services in the context of judicial authority, the BHC focuses on promoting personal accountability and health and wellness in all areas of a client’s life. The goals of providing treatment in the context include reducing recidivism, improving quality of life, and protecting the safety and welfare of our communities.

Testing and Outreach
Outreach teams work together with other community providers to get the word out about programs available for those at risk for HIV and/or Hepatitis C. Trained outreach prevention workers also provide free, anonymous HIV testing every Monday and Tuesday from 9am to 12pm. Testing is also offered from 9am to 11:30am the second and fourth Thursday of each month. All of the testing is performed at our Oakland location, 2551 San Pablo Suite 222, and no appointment is necessary. Our outreach team also provides testing at 22 Alameda County substance abuse facilities.

Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis "PREP"
Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis (PREP) is a new program in Alameda County that operates in partnership with Family Service Agency of San Francisco, East Bay Community Recovery Project, University California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mental Health Association of Alameda County (MHAAC) and Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services.

The PREP program is dedicated to early detection of psychosis in transitional age youth (ages 16-24) and early delivery of care with a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment. The program combines a series of evidence-based treatments in Strength-based Care Management, Medication Management, Co-occurring Disorders, Multi-family Group Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Early psychosis, Vocational rehabilitation and Cognitive Training to address the issue early and bring the symptoms to full remediation.

PREP is conveniently located in both our Oakland and Hayward offices.