Harbor Care Adds more Beds for Pregnant and Parenting Women
My name is Christina Loder and I’m Harbor Care’s Director of Behavioral and Addiction Treatment overseeing substance use disorder and mental health services at the agency. I’m writing today to let you know about program enhancements at Harbor Care’s residential treatment center, Keystone Hall, and what immediate changes you can expect as you refer clients to us.
Keystone Hall’s Cynthia Day Family Center in Nashua is one of very few facilities that cater to the specific needs of pregnant and parenting women experiencing a substance use disorder in the Granite State, and we’re proud to announce that we will be expanding to offer more beds to these particularly vulnerable clients. This includes an ability to serve women who may not have children in their custody, but whose parental rights have not been terminated.
We feel it’s important to develop this expansion carefully, using evidence-based practices to provide a safe space for women who have all too often been victimized in their lives. We understand this expansion as an important component of breaking the generational cycle of addiction that heals the whole family.
As part of this expansion, our facility will undergo construction, causing us to temporarily pause high- and low-intensity residential treatment for men (ASAM Levels 3.1 and 3.5). We recognize that men have more options than women in the Granite State for quality residential services and will do our best to help clients and partner agencies navigate to other safe, clinically-sound programs.
During this pause, clinical staff will focus exclusively on our female clients and their children, which will help us provide exceptional one-on-one treatment. The admission and intake process you have become accustomed to for Cynthia Day Family Center will not be interrupted, and we have beds waiting for your clients, friends or loved ones.
Additional beds are also available immediately at the facility on an as-needed basis. Cynthia Day Family Center at Keystone Hall now has more beds open for pregnant and parenting women than any program accepting clients enrolled in Medicaid or private insurance in New Hampshire. Because the facility is integrated with primary care and medication assisted treatment (MAT) at the Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center, clients and their children at Cynthia Day Family Center also have access to full dental, medical care, mental health care, and pharmacy services.
Our full array of outpatient programs for both men and women – medication assisted treatment, outpatient and intensive outpatient services, specialty treatment for men and women experiencing a stimulant use disorder, and programming tailored to our veteran clients (including transitional living) – will not be affected as we develop the state’s leading high-intensity residential treatment facility for pregnant, postpartum and parenting women and their children.
Please feel free to call or e-mail me if you have any questions or concerns and thank you for helping support Granite Staters with a substance use disorder. Visit https://www.harborcarenh.org/cynthia-day-family-center-for-women-and-children for more information about the program.
Thank you,
Christina Loder, MS, LCMHC, MLADC
Director of Behavioral and Addiction Treatment