2. HISTORY
In 1973 WestCare was formed to provide
community-based substance abuse treatment for
those people from low-income households who
would not otherwise have had access to treatment
services.
Started as a residential treatment program with a
therapeutic community treatment modality and
focused on long-term care for hard-core adult male
heroin addicts.
3. MISSION AND VISION
WestCare empowers everyone with whom we come into
contact to engage in a process of healing, growth and
change benefiting themselves, their families, co-workers
and communities.
WestCare will devote its best collective and individual
efforts toward “uplifting the human spirit” by consistently
improving, expanding and strengthening the quality,
efficacy and cost-effectiveness of everything we do in
building for the future.
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5. COMMUNITY CONTEXT
In 1992 WestCare’s Nationally successful rehab
program takes over management of Fresno's
current Substance abuse program called The Third
Floor.
WestCares clinical success with the Third Floor
leads to opening more facilities and offering more
services.
6. OFFERED IN FRESNO…
California main administrative office
SASCA criminal justice case management
Family Foundation Program
Adolescent Outpatient Services
Adult residential substance abuse treatment services
M’ella Project – pregnant and parenting residential substance
abuse treatment
Women’s Long/Short-Term Residential Program (Women to Women)
Men’s Long-/Short-Term Residential Program
Division of Juvenile Justice Transitional Program
Residential Multi-Service Center (RMSC)
Certified providers of parenting, anger management and domestic
SMART 2 therapeutic children’s center
Sober Living
7. MEN'S RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM
Located in South West Fresno on Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd.
Treatment stays range from 31 to 180 days
Clients are either self pay or are on contracts
through the CA Department of Corrections,
California Youth Authority or federal probation
Services included in this program are group
and individual counseling, alcohol and drug
education classes, relapse prevention, 12-step
meetings, mental health treatment, HIV/AIDS
education and family support services
8. The mens residential facility deals with many at-risk-
populations, including:
Alocoholics
Drug addicts
The unemployed
The homeless
Convicted criminals
The mentally ill
Since any one of these can hinder successful
reintegration into society they are all addressed and
evaluated with the client at the facility.
9. AGENCY PRACTICES
Clients are offered a battery of medical tests, with a
TB test mandatory
Clients sign a contract outlining what they can
possess and what they can do during treatment
Participation in contracted activities is mandatory
These and all other agency practices ensure the
highest possible rate of success.
10. The addressing of addiction treatment as a benefit
to society and to the client identifies this work as
high priority and tall on the ladder of social justice.
