Partial Hospitalization Program, Flint, OH

Treating Addiction and Mental Health Together 

Alcohol or drug use does not always happen on its own. You may also be dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, or other mental health symptoms that make it harder to manage stress, cravings, and situations that put your recovery at risk. During PHP, we look at how these concerns affect each other rather than treating your substance use as a separate problem.

At our outpatient center near the Polaris area, we coordinate your addiction treatment and mental health care within the same treatment plan. Depending on your needs, the program can include individual and group therapy, psychiatric support, trauma-informed care, medication management, and dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring substance use and mental health conditions. Your clinicians can adjust these parts of your care as they learn more about your symptoms and how you respond to treatment.

For adults coming from Flint and communities along the Lazelle Road corridor, this means you can receive co-occurring mental health support as part of PHP at the same Westerville location. If anxiety, depression, trauma, or another mental health concern is affecting your recovery, your treatment team can address it alongside the substance use rather than leaving you to manage it separately.

Putting Recovery Skills Into Practice at Home 

What you learn in PHP has to work when you leave treatment for the day. You might have a productive session in Westerville, then notice an old routine coming back to mind as you head home toward Flint Road and Park Road. Instead of waiting until your next session to deal with it, you can use the coping strategies and plans you have been working on in treatment.

Some days will be more difficult than others. You might spend time with family near Flint Park when cravings become difficult or find that an unstructured evening at home is more challenging than you expected. When you come back to treatment, you can talk through what happened with your clinical team, look at what helped and what did not, and decide whether your plan needs to change.

That back-and-forth between treatment and everyday life is an important part of PHP. You can try new skills in your regular routine in Flint, then come back to your team for help with the situations that are still difficult.

How We Decide When You Are Ready to Step Down

Moving out of PHP is not about reaching a certain date on the calendar. Your treatment team looks at how you are doing in treatment and how well you are managing more independence outside of it. We consider changes in substance use, cravings, mental health symptoms, relapse risk, and how consistently you are using the skills you have been working on.

Progress can look different for each person. You may be handling difficult situations more effectively, following your recovery plan with less support, or finding that challenges between treatment days are becoming more manageable. When those changes are consistent, your team may decide that you no longer need the structure of PHP and recommend stepping down to IOP or another level of outpatient care.

Stepping down means spending less time in structured treatment at our Westerville center and more time in your regular routine at home in Flint. We continue to review how you are doing as that balance changes so your level of support can change with your needs.