Emergency services/crisis intervention is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. After hours calls are dispatched to Counselors through the Dillingham Police Department or Counselors can be reached through Kanakanak Hospital.

The BBAHC Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Program offers a wide variety of services. Provides community education upon request, including the B.A.B.E.S. Program for children. Also provides resource materials, including video/audio tapes. Services are also provided at Jake’s Place, a 12-bed residential facility available for those clients who are assessed as needing more structured, intensive treatment. Located next to Kanakanak Hospital. Walk-ins are welcome.

Program services include:

Assessment and Evaluation: Assessments and Evaluations are done at the request of the client or a referring agency.

Intensive Outpatient Counseling: This is a group counseling service, 3 hours long, 5 nights per week, for five weeks.

Outpatient Counseling: One on one counseling sessions, usually one hour long for 8-12 weeks, followed by 3-6 months of Aftercare. Total program requires about one year.

Aftercare Program: Aftercare is a group meeting. Sessions are 2 hours long, once a week.

Transitional Care: For people on their way to treatment, returning from treatment, or village residents enrolled in the Intensive Outpatient Program.

Residential Care: This new program provides supervised living for clients waiting to go to and returning from inpatient treatment outside the region.

Follow-up: Contacts are designed to assist clients with ongoing sobriety issues.

Freddy’s Social Detox: 5-bed unit attached to Jake’s providing early intervention and structured support following treatment. Provides intensive services for chronic alcoholics early in their recovery.

Counseling and support services available for: Individuals, Families, Groups, Children, Teenagers, Adults, and Elders.

Bristol Bay Counseling Center staff brings a variety of skills, education and techniques to the center and offer psychotherapy, counseling, case management and life skills training. Village based workers provide on-site services with support from office staff.

The Bristol Bay Counseling Center offers a variety of services to all villages in the Bristol Bay area, including:

Emergency Services – Outreach, crisis intervention, and referrals are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to all of the Bristol Bay area. After-hours and weekend emergency calls are dispatched to counselors by Dillingham Police at (907) 842-5354.

Outpatient Services – Individual, couple, family, group counseling and psychotherapy is available for adults, children and adolescents throughout Bristol Bay. Consultation and evaluation services are available to schools, hospitals, court systems, and social service agencies.

Psychiatric Services – Psychiatric assessments and evaluations are available by appointment only. Call the Counseling Center office for scheduling of intake and appointments.

Child and Adolescent Services – Offers crisis intervention, individual, family and group therapy to children and adolescents with various emotional and behavioral difficulties. Consultation services and presentations on specific mental health services to children and adolescents are also available.
Prevention and Education – The Counseling Center offers various prevention and education programs to all villages of the Bristol Bay region, by request. For information and scheduling call the office.

Community Support Services – Specialized outpatient and residential services provided to adults with chronic mental illness.

Village Outreach & Counseling Services - Outreach counseling, referral and case management services are available in the village through Family Service Workers and during itinerant village travel by clinical staff in the regional office. Call for current travel schedules.

Male Awareness Program – This is a 24-session anger control program aimed at preventing men’s violence towards women.

Natural Helper Program – A peer helper program for high and middle school students available to communities by request. Funding limits may apply.

Community Development – Services are available to all communities in Bristol Bay by request.

Suicide Prevention/Education – Available throughout Bristol Bay to communities, schools, or groups by request.

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing – Debriefing services for first responders to a traumatic incident.

“Our House” – A short-term crisis/respite center for individuals suffering with chronic or persistent mental illness. Clients receive comprehensive assistance.

Fees: On a sliding scale based on income, no person will be denied services due to lack of funds.

Confidentiality: Information is released only with written client consent.

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Works with individuals and agencies to promote healthy lifestyles especially targeting youth, promoting traditional cultural activities and including elders in Dillingham services.

Prevention activities include: alternative healthy activities for youth, alcohol/drug free dances, family movie nights, and supplying helmets to the community at cost. Cultural activities include: preservation of native dance, traditional arts and crafts, and subsistence and traditional foods.

Helps coordinate services with other programs, such as: Healthy Hearts program, youth access to tobacco prevention and cessation, Search and Rescue and Dillingham Snowmobile Association.

Environmental Health provides community-based environmental health services including water, liquid waste and solid waste, village clinic and Head Start surveys and rabies prevention services.

Injury Prevention provides numerous classes ranging from water safety, firearm safety, snowmobile safety, and outdoor survival. Drinking water lab open Mon through Wed.