Intensive Outpatient Treatment

The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a three hour per day, three days a week program for adolescent substance abusers who require a more intense treatment experience than traditional outpatient but do not require residential placement.  NOVA's IOP is family based and provides both front-end intensive treatment and post treatment transitional counseling for those adolescents and families who meet the criteria for this level of care. Services are facilitated by licensed or provisionally licensed mental health professionals, (LMHP/PLMHP) or licensed or provisionally licensed drug and alcohol counselors (LADC/PLADC). 

Since a majority of those youth admitted to IOP are of school age and need to attend school, the program operates after school, except for summer/holiday vacations, or other regularly scheduled breaks in the school schedule.  The programming day is three hours per day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  The mission of the program is to provide a safe, highly structured therapeutic environment that promotes long term sobriety and, through the acceptance of responsibility for one's choices and behaviors, the acquisition of a set of socially adaptive moral/ethical standards that likewise promote responsible living.

It is NOVA's task to create and maintain the conditions necessary for positive change to occur while helping the family (parents) of the youth develop effective management, interactive, and problem solving strategies.  IOP is committed to achieving the following goals:

To provide a therapeutic environment that requires abstinence and will facilitate a measurable and significant reduction in the use of drugs and/or alcohol

To provide for the physical, emotional and psychological well being of the youth admitted into the program

To assist the families of the youth in IOP to better understand and respond to the needs of the youth in treatment

To promote the moral/ethical development of the youth in treatment

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