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You can use the Oregon Behavioral Health Provider Directory to find providers that accept your health coverage, including Oregon Health Plan.
Adult Mental Health Services Resources and Programs
You can contact your local community mental health program for help finding these services near you.
Adult foster homes provide housing, services and assistance with activities for daily living in a home-like setting. These are licensed, single family residences that offer culturally appropriate care and support for up to five adult residents. Providers or a resident manager live on site with residents.
If you have more than one behavioral health disorder, you can get care for treat those conditions together.
- For example, you could have conditions related to substance use, gambling, intellectual or developmental disabilities, and mental health.
- Each condition can affect the others. This can slow recovery and reduce your quality of life.
Oregon Health Authority (OHA) expects providers to treat co-occurring disorders together. Find programs that do this.
Culturally and linguistically specific (CLS) services are available in communities that have been harmed because of their:
- Race,
- Ethnicity,
- Gender identity,
- Sexual and affectional orientation,
- Ability status, and/or
- Migration history.
If you are part of such a community, this means you can get behavioral health care in ways that support your cultural needs and language. Find approved CLS providers.
Enhanced Care Services (ECS) support
individuals who:
- Have complex medical and psychiatric needs,
- Qualify for services through Oregon Department of Human Services Aging and People with Diabilities, and
- Need rehabilitative mental health treatment.
ECS is available in 8 Oregon counties.
- Enhanced Care Facilities (specific APD Residential Care Facilities or
units of select Nursing Facilities) provide onsite mental
health supports for a minimum of 4 hours per day. Facilities are in Hood River, Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill, Marion and Lane counties.
- Enhanced Care Outreach Services (ECOS) provide intensive mental health services to
individuals residing in APD licensed settings.
Based on individual needs, supports can also be clinic-based. ECOS is available in Hood River, Multnomah,
Washington, Polk, Yamhill, Marion, Lane and Coos counties.
Home and Community-Based Services are Medicaid-funded services and supports for people living in their home or other community-based settings. Oregon Health Authority provides these services through a state plan option called 1915(i). These services are available for adults ages 21 and over. They help people with long-term mental health needs live better on their own.
Learn more about HCBS for people with long-term mental health needs.
Learn about OHA's work to ensure individuals in court-ordered treatment programs:
- Get the care they need, and
- Can get care in less intensive settings when treatment is complete.
Programs include:
- Aid and assist
- Civil commitment
- Guilty Except for Insanity
- Jail diversion
Learn more about adult intensive services programs.
You can get help from someone who has lived experience with mental health, substance use or recovery. A peer provides support to people with similar life experiences.
- A peer support specialist can help you or your family. They can offer emotional support, guidance, coaching and more.
- A peer wellness specialist helps you get coordinated behavioral and physical health care. They also help you access other services and resources that support recovery, health and wellness.
- A certified recovery mentor can help you identify and achieve self-determined goals of recovery.
Find peers in Oregon's Traditional Health Worker directory.
Residential treatment facilities provide psychiatric treatment, care and services in a home-like environment.
- Residential treatment facilities serve six to 16 adults.
- Residential treatment homes serve 5 or fewer adults.
- Secure residential treatment facilities serve one to 16 adults. They also restrict residents' ability to leave the facility.
Program staff are onsite and awake 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.