1. WESTCARE
Uplifting the Human Spirit
By Abbi Johnson

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.

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.