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Women's Treatment Programs

Uta Halee Girls Village

Uta Halee (A Native American term, which in the language of the Omaha Tribe means: "on the sunny side"), is located in the wooded hills of Omaha, Nebraska, a city where you will find excellence in the treatment of struggling adolescents and a place where hometown values are cherished.

Established in 1950, Uta Halee Girls Village is a program for female students ages 12-18 whose emotional, behavioral, mental health or substance use issues require treatment in a safe and highly structured environment. Our goal is to return students to their home communities with the skills necessary to find meaning in their lives and resume healthy journeys into adulthood.

For 56 years, we have provided secure and therapeutic care in this beautiful setting in the Heartland. We assist struggling youth and families from all areas of the country and accept qualified private insurance and private pay clients.

Please continue to browse our website. We understand that your interest in our program means that these may be difficult times for you and your family. We are here to help and will work to return your daughter to the path of a fulfilling adult life.

W.E.L.L.

W.E.L.L. (Women's Empowering Life Line) offers chemically dependent women a safe, stable and drug-free environment as well as time, support and counseling needed to make the transition back into the community. W.E.L.L. offers a structured halfway house program with capacity for nine women and a dual diagnosis (substance abuse and mental illness) program, which has a capacity for eight women and provides integrated therapy addressing essential issues and individualized treatment planning.

W.E.L.L. treatment services addresses all treatment issues, as well as issues specific to women. The goal of treatment is stable recovery with better decision-making skills, better nutrition and health, responsibility for self and better personal relationships.

W.E.L.L. serves the 22 counties of Region IV Behavioral Health Services. As space allows, W.E.L.L. Link also serves other counties and states. W.E.L.L.also offers a Dual Diagnosis Residential Program, which responds to both mental health disorders and chemical dependency.

St Monica's

Since 1964, St Monica's has been a partner in women's struggle to overcome addiction. Their sucess is measured by each incremental step towards new life, and by daily...even hourly triumphs.

St Monica's offers a continuum of care including Short Term Residential, Day Treatment, Intensive Residential, Therapeutic Community, Community Support, Aftercare and Relapse Prevention, New Beginnings and Project Mother and Child.

Project Mother and Child is the only residential substance abuse program in Nebraska for pregnant women and women with young children. Women and their children live together at St Monica's for up to 18 months and receive treatment services simultaneously.

St Monica's has recently opened New Beginnings, which is a collaborative effort between St Monica's and Friendship Home. New Beginnings offers residential treatment to mothers or expectant mothers who are chemically dependent and/or have mental health issues and have experienced domestic violence. Through this program mothers who face both addiction and domestic violence can access chemical dependency services while living in a secure residential setting.

St. Monica's also serves adolescent females age 12 and older in their group home programs located in Lincoln and Grand Island.

St. Monica's serve women in the Region V Behavioral Health services, but also serves other regions and states as space allows.

Family Works

Family Works is a residential substance abuse treatment center for pregnant women and women who are parenting young children. It is a unique program design as it incorporates apartment living for the mothers and children with onsite treatment. Each mom will have their own apartment unit, while the facility will have common areas for group treatment work, staff offices, and group lunches and activities. Child care while mothers are in the program will be provided by child care centers in the community. The program will use a modified therapeutic community model to provide clinically managed residential treatment. The mothers will receive 24 hour support from the Family Works staff.

In addition to the mother’s chemical dependency treatment, the mothers and children will participate in therapeutic and educational interventions to develop parenting skills, strengthen the mother-child bond, and improve social and family functioning. Through work with Family Works staff and community partner agencies, the mothers will receive assistance in obtaining vocational training, employment, and other social services. Families will also receive transitional support upon completion of the program. The support will focus not only on the women’s sobriety, but also on their functioning as stable and loving parents.

As no such facility currently exists in the community, this program will provide the much-needed opportunity for women in the Omaha area to receive treatment while residing with their children. Mother and children will be able to reside together during the treatment process, thus preserving and strengthening the attachment which is so critical to the safety, health, and lifelong well being of the children. Priority will be given to pregnant women and mothers of children who are under the age of one. The program will have a daily capacity of 10 families.

The program is designed to meet the needs of low income and minority women, and is built on principles of a nurturing, supportive, therapeutic treatment community. This holistic approach considers the women’s physical and mental health, spiritual and emotional well-being, and includes a healthy sober support system, responsible community membership, and productive work. The women and children will receive the individualized assessment and therapeutic support they need to repair relationships with their families and as they establish effective, developmentally appropriate parenting practices.

The Bridge, Inc.

The Bridge, Inc. is a therapeutic community for women and their dependent children, providing long-term residential care for recovery from alcohol/drug abuse.

Women's Therapy or Support Services

Support Services

• Listening, feeling heard, checking in
• Communicating the loss to others
• Cleaning out closets: physical & emotional

• Connecting memory, sense, emotion and imagination
• Questioning the "cop in the head"
• Focus is tailored to the group’s needs; minimum 10 members

• Understanding the basics
• Living the experience with increased comfort and ease

• Exploring the philosophy
• Learning to "work the steps"
• Enhancing long-term recovery
• Attending meetings

• Pre-treatment support
• Education

Therapy Services

The Women’s Therapy and Learning Center (WTLC) was developed as a result of women’s direct requests for psychotherapeutic services which:

1. Recognize and attend to their specific psycho-social needs,
2. acknowledge their unique experiences of themselves, and their relationships, and
3. support their struggles to reach their individual emotional, relational, creative, and spiritual potential.

Established in 1988, the Women’s Therapy and Learning Center provides programs and services for the public and for professionals covering a variety of issues that individuals, both women and men, face today. Our theoretical orientation is feminist and psychodynamic, borrowing from and integrating Jungian psychology, Self-In-Relation Theory, and British Object Relations.

At the Women’s Therapy and Learning Center, our definition of empowering women embraces the process of developing skills and behaviors that enhance self-nurturance, via connectedness to one’s self: body, mind and spirit, to others, as well as to nature and the earth.

We recognize that relationships are an integral part of people’s lives. Experiencing difficulties in relationships can leave women and men with feelings of confusion, anger, hurt, loss, inadequacy, guilt, and shame. As such, relationship issues are given ongoing attention. Our programs are designed to help individuals understand and express themselves within the context of relationships while creating meaningful lives.

Women and men therapists and volunteers who have acquired specialized training in the area of gender issues provide all services at the Women’s Therapy and Learning Center.