Mental Health Care in Little Rock, AR

Centers for Youth and Families

What Does Centers for Youth and Families Offer?

Centers for Youth and Families is a mental health facility at P.O. Box 251970, Little Rock, Arkansas, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and residential care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

P.O. Box 251970
Little Rock, AR 72225

SAMHSA lists this facility's programs separately: Residential; Little Rock Outpatient Services.

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

Types of Care at Centers for Youth and Families

  • Residential/24-hour residential
  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Federal Grants
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • Private or Community foundation
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • State education agency funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • State welfare or child and family services funds
  • Community Mental Health Block Grants
  • Community Service Block Grants
  • Medicare

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Who the Program Serves

  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with eating disorders
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Young adults
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults

Language Services

  • Spanish

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Legal advocacy
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • Supported employment
  • Therapeutic foster care
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Arkansas lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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