Behavioral Health Services
Information for Providers
Prevention Services targeted at schools and neighborhoods aim to reduce, decrease, or eliminate the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs. Peer programs, life skills, parenting and family enhancement programs, teacher training, latch-key programs, ethnic-focused programs, and prenatal programs are just a few of the services provided by the Division through subcontracts. Aimed at educating individuals, prevention services provide the information and skills needed to make healthy life choices.
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Prevention Provider Forms and Resources
Treatment Services are provided to County residents by private, non-profit, and public Salt Lake County agencies. Nationally standardized assessment and placement criteria, along with outcome and process-based performance measures, provide the structure for coordinated services that are grounded in fiscal and clinical accountability. Programs are designed to meet the specific treatment needs of adolescents, pregnant and parenting women, as well as the general population. The Division is active in the support and design of both innovative and traditional treatment modalities, including drug courts and jail-based services.
Programs must admit clients according to the following priority:
1. Pregnant and female parenting injecting drug users
2. Pregnant and female parenting substance abusers
3. Injecting drug users
4. HIV positive drug users
5. Special revenue contract clients including DORA, Family Dependency Drug Court, State Supervision, etc.
6. Referrals from VOA Detox/Day Treatment and Salt Lake County Treatment Unit
7. All other substance abusers
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Treatment Provider Forms and Resources
Bid Process for Prevention and Treatment providers
Professional Articles and Information
UWITS, which stands for Utah Web Infrastructure for Treatment Services is a county-wide, web-based solution that is specifically designed to meet the data management needs of the Salt Lake County Division of Behavioral Health Services, its treatment contract agencies and the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.
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