High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays
High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays, located in Hays, KS, serves 20 counties in Northwest Kansas. It focuses on mental health and substance use disorder treatment. With six full-time offices and 20 additional service locations, it offers comprehensive behavioral health services for individuals, groups, and families.
HPMHC's mission is to provide quality services close to home at an affordable fee, ensuring minimal disruption. Licensed as a Community Mental Health Center and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic, HPMHC has earned the prestigious iLead Award and secured $5.9 million in HHS grants.
- Outpatient Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) options are available.
- A team of skilled social workers, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and nursing professionals provides care.
- A range of services, including crisis intervention, psychotherapy, and medication management, is offered.
- Community-based support services are available as needed to further assist patients.
Treatments address mental health issues and substance use disorders. HPMHC serves people of all ages, with services tailored to meet psychological, physical, and social needs.
- 2 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 3 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 16 Therapies & Programs
- Multiple Locations
Staff
- Dr. Mark Romereim, MDMedical DirectorNative Kansan, expert in child/adolescent psychiatry and ADHD
- Mark Dinkel, MS, LPCDirector of Clinical ProgramsLifelong Hays resident, over 20 years of experience at HPMHC
- Craig PoeExecutive DirectorSixth-generation Kansan, extensive experience in HR and community mental health
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Substance abuse refers to the intensive and inappropriate use of psychoactive substances. Psychoactive substances are those that affect brain function. These include illegal drugs, alcohol, and even the excessive use of prescription drugs. The overuse of psychoactive substances leads to severe physical or psychological dependence. It also affects the social life and relationships of the affected individual. Substance abuse is treatable.
The duration of treatment at High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays in Hays can require weeks or even months depending on the severity of the condition as there is a risk of relapse. Treatment options include medications, counseling sessions, various types of behavioral therapy, and group therapy in different combinations.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Addiction to prescription opioid painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone, and illicit opioids such as heroin, leads to potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms when discontinued. Opioid addiction treatment typically involves an inpatient stay at facilities like High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays to make sure they get through withdrawal safely. Treatment also includes comprehensive mental health counseling.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Kansas patient will go to the treatment center, yet return home every night. After most of the program is completed, the level of mandatory participation reduces.
Treatment is just a first step in sustaining sobriety. After rehabilitation, counseling for aftercare helps the person adapt to a life without drugs. A sober living facility in Hays, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays‘s Therapies & Programs
Recovering from addiction involves recovering relationships as well. One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Couples therapy at High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged. Addiction involves everyone in the family, not only the addict.
Family roles can change in damaging ways that may require professional help to rebalance. Successful intimate relationships can decrease the chances for relapse by ensuring a healthy environment after rehab in Hays, KS.
Addiction and alcoholism affect the entire family. For this reason, family therapy is vital to a person’s recovery from addiction. In contrast to couples counseling, family therapy at High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays may include siblings, children, parents, and other significant people in the recovering person’s life. Family support is one of the most important pillars of recovery.
Many people turn to drugs and alcohol as a way of processing trauma that has affected them in the past. Trauma can include abuse, neglect, the loss of a loved one and other unpleasant incidents. Trauma therapy at High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays helps patients process trauma. It gives them the tools to deal with it in a healthier manner.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the relationship between a patient’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays aims to establish a healthy response to thoughts and feelings as an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol. It also promotes healthy communication between addicts and those around them. It is and effective therapy for people suffering with all types of addictions.
The recovery technique used by Alcoholics Anonymous is the 12 step program, but it can relate to any form of addiction. The 12 steps that addicts must take on the road to recovery are explained. Measures include acknowledging that you have a problem and agreeing to turn around your life. The curriculum, instructed by High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays, also requires a belief in a greater power and making amends to others.
Contingency Management (CM), also called motivational incentives, is a type of pure behavioral therapy. It’s based on the idea that behavior is shaped, motivated, or controlled by its outcomes. CM is a clinical application at High Plains Mental Health Center - Hays of operant conditioning, which helps clients eliminate unwanted behaviors by the use of positive and negative reinforcement.
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Location & Contact
208 East 7th Street
Hays, KS 67601
Phone Number
(785) 628-2871
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Location
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208 East 7th Street
Hays, KS 67601 -
(785) 628-2871
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Children (0-12), Teenagers
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ModalityCouples, Family, Group, Individuals
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High Plains Mental Health Center
Listed May 26, 2020
Updated July 25, 2024
Hays, Kansas Addiction and Treatment
About 42% of adults in Kansas have tried an illicit drug at some point in their lives. 12.4% of the state population uses illegal drugs and 4.5% abuse alcohol in a given year. 15.16% of all deaths in Kansas between 2008 and 2017 were caused by either drugs or alcohol.
Ellis County, Kansas, a vibrant community nestled in the heart of the state, faces a pressing challenge with substance abuse. The opioid dispensing rate in Ellis County stands at 56.5 per 100 people, a staggering 30.5% higher than the national average. Moreover, methamphetamine use in the county ranks 12th in the state, with an estimated 16.62% of the population affected in 2019-2020.
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