Treatment at NOVA is individualized and based on your level of motivation, your goals, and your preferences. Some people are at NOVA for as little as 30 days, while others might stay as long as six months.

Yes, NOVA's programs do provide dual diagnosis services. Dual diagnosis serivces are services for people with substance use as well as mental health disorders.

At times there is a waitlist, most often in the Adult TC program.

Contact NOVA's Intake Department at 402-455-8347.

The cost of treatment depends on the type of services you'll be receiving. NOVA accepts Nebraska Medicaid, Magellan Behavioral Health, criminal justice vouchers, and some private insurance, and has a sliding fee scale for residential services. Contact NOVA's Intake Department at 402-455-8347 for information specific to your needs.

You can download our Program Member Handbook, which gives you an overview of services, by  clicking here.

Individual, family and group sessions are scheduled at a variety of times throughout the week. Sessions are scheduled during the day and evening hours to accommodate schedules. When you are assigned a therapist, they will work with you to create a schedule that works for you.

A Treatment Community is based on the Therapeutic Community model, which is a treatment model used worldwide. The primary goal of a TC is to foster personal growth. This is accomplished by changing an individual's lifestyle through a community of concerned people working together to help themselves and each other. The TC represents a highly structured environment with defined boundaries, both moral and ethical. It employs community-imposed sanctions and penalties, as well as earned advancement of status and privileges as part of the recovery and growth process. Being part of something greater than oneself is an especially important factor in facilitating positive growth. People in a TC are members, as in any family setting, not patients, as in an institution. Members play a significant role in managing the TC and acting as positive role models for others to emulate. Members and staff act as facilitators emphasizing personal responsibility for one's own life and for self-improvement.

Phone calls and visits are allowed with approved persons. Attorneys, caseworkers, probation officers, parole officers, etc., do not require approval. We want to make sure that the people you have phone calls and visits with are appropriate and supportive to your recovery. You will supply a list of people you'd like contact with and NOVA staff will interview those individuals prior to allowing contact. NOVA has a Phone and Visit Policy and Procedures available for your review in the Program Member Handbook.