Positive Directions Center for Prevention and Counseling

If you are looking at Positive Directions Center for Prevention and Counseling in Westport, CT, the basics worth knowing up front: The facility's programming is outpatient (Outpatient, Dual Dx), not residential. This page walks through the questions that tend to matter most to families weighing a specific program.

Care levels at Positive Directions Center for Prevention and Counseling

On care levels specifically: Positive Directions Center for Prevention and Counseling is an outpatient-focused program (Outpatient, Dual Dx) — patients live at home or in sober living and attend treatment sessions. This level of care is clinically appropriate for mild-to-moderate substance use disorder, or for patients stepping down from residential. What that means in practice is that matching Positive Directions Center for Prevention and Counseling to the right clinical situation depends on whether you or a loved one needs the level of care this facility actually offers — which is a clinician's judgment, not a facility's sales pitch.

Insurance and payment

Positive Directions Center for Prevention and Counseling accepts both Medicaid and commercial insurance, which is the broadest payer profile and typically correlates with programs that operate at scale across the economic spectrum. The single most useful pre-admission move on insurance is requesting the facility send you — in writing, by email — the specific benefits verification for your specific plan product. That document is the answer to most post-admission billing disputes.

Specialty programming

The facility's documented specialty programming includes: Young adults, Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia. If that matches what you or your family member need, great — and worth asking specifically about what the programming looks like day-to-day (how many hours per week of specialty-specific content, who leads it, what credentials they hold).

Before you call

Three questions to put to Positive Directions Center for Prevention and Counseling before admission: the specific ASAM level the facility is billing; the written Verification of Benefits for your specific plan product; the MAT policy (continuation of buprenorphine or methadone during residential, specifically). If the clinical situation involves opioid use disorder, confirm explicitly whether Positive Directions Center for Prevention and Counseling offers medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone. Programs that do not are operating outside the current standard of care. Getting answers in writing protects against the downstream surprises.