Perinatal Treatment Services
Our mission at Perinatal Treatment Services (PTS) is:
“To help women stay clean and sober, and improve the quality of life for themselves and their children.”
As only one of four facilities in the Puget Sound region that allows children to reside with their mothers while they undergo treatment, clients and their children build bonds, interact and live with each other. The mothers that participate in our program learn how to be the kind of parent they might have never had, and the children that reside here receive the nurturing and support they deserve.
Description:
To accomplish our mission, PTS offers residential chemical dependency treatment programs in Seattle and Tacoma that provides safe and supportive housing for women and their children. Our program incorporates the following psycho-educational Chemical Dependency specific groups:
• Recovery Education
• Relapse Prevention
• Seeking Safety
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
• Anger Management
• Family Systems
• First Step/90 Day Group
In addition to Chemical Dependency specific groups PTS offers groups in Life Skills, Communication, Parenting, Health, Nutrition, Current Events, Art Therapy, and Special Topics. Due to the fact that many of our clients come from abusive backgrounds and/or are diagnosed with mental illness, PTS Counselors and Case Managers make referrals to outside agencies for Domestic Violence Support/Counseling and Mental Health to agencies such as New Beginnings, Catholic Community Services, Comprehensive Mental Health Services, Community Psychiatric Clinics, United Indians of All Tribes, etc.
PTS offers off-site classroom style schooling through Tacoma Public Schools for the girls in our adolescent program, Fresh Start. They have the opportunity to earn school credits while in treatment in addition to the other services we offer listed above. The women in our adult programs are referred to local community colleges and GED preparation providers for educational services.
Continuing care planning is perhaps one of the most important aspects of residential treatment in terms of maintaining long – term abstinence and recovery from dugs and alcohol. Our program staff starts this process with the client immediately. Clients are connected with community based organizations for housing, medical care, mental health care and case management services. Perinatal Treatment Services works closely with Safe Babies, Safe Moms…Snohomish County WA. Safe Babies, Safe Moms is a comprehensive motivational case management program for women who are pregnant and/or parenting a child under the age of six months. This program provides and helps women obtain chemical dependency treatment, housing, family planning, behavioral health counseling, parenting educations, prenatal care, continued education, and job skills. SBSM services are at no cost to the client and continue until the identified child turns three years of age.
Perinatal also works closely with PCAP (Parent Child Assistance Program). PCAP is a home visitation intervention program that works with women who abuse alcohol or drugs during pregnancy, with the aim of preventing future alcohol- and drug-exposed births among these mothers. PCAP supports mothers in achieving this goal by helping them complete substance abuse treatment and stay in recovery and by motivating them to choose effective family planning methods. The goals of the program are to (1) assist mothers in obtaining treatment, maintaining recovery, and resolving the complex problems associated with their substance abuse; (2) guarantee that the children are in a safe environment and receiving appropriate health care; (3) effectively link families with community resources; and (4) demonstrate successful strategies for working with this population to prevent the risk of future drug- and alcohol-affected children.
History:
Perinatal Treatment Services was originally founded as a research demonstration project through NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse) from 1989 – 1994. The MOMS project was an interdisciplinary approach to providing recovery services to pregnant, chemically dependent women that incorporated the strength of field work with research clinical trials. Women who received treatment through the MOMS project:
• Were willing to remain in treatment longer than women who received less comprehensive services.
• Delivered significantly healthier newborns
• Fewer newborns were born prematurely
• Fewer low birth weight problems
• Less fetal demise
• Fewer hospital stays for newborn complications
As a result of the favorable community health and well-being outcomes, DASA (Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse) agreed to transfer management of the project to Perinatal Treatment Services, a private, non-profit organization. In 1994 Perinatal Treatment Services (PTS) opened its doors to women who were pregnant and/or parenting in Seattle, and then again in Tacoma in 1998. In 2003 our adolescent program (Fresh Start), which offers services to girls, ages 12-17 battling substance abuse, began in Tacoma.
Contact people:
Main office number:
(206) 223-1300Office fax number: (206) 223-1279
Address:
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600 N 130th StreetSeattle, WA 98133 (See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.ptswa.org
Directions:
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We are on 130th St. off of Aurora (old hwy 99) in North Seattle. We are just west of Aurora. If you run into Greenwood Ave. you have gone too far. |
Miscellaneous Information
| Liability |
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No
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| Does your organization welcome court-ordered community service volunteers? |
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No
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| Does your organization have volunteer positions for youth 12-18? |
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No
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| Last updated on August 18, 2009 |
