Abraxas Youth and Family Services

About Abraxas Youth and Family Services

Abraxas Center Adolescent Females is a gender-specific addiction treatment program located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offering substance use and dual diagnosis care for young women and adolescent girls.

Situated on Penn Avenue, the program focuses on age-appropriate, gender responsive treatment that addresses both addiction and co-occurring mental health concerns.

Drug Rehab for Young Adult and Adolescent Females

The program provides drug rehab services with an emphasis on adolescent females and young adult women. Care may include support for substance use disorders alongside dual diagnosis treatment for clients managing mental health symptoms in addition to addiction.

Females can expect a structured environment that incorporates individual, group and family counseling, along with peer support, life-skills training and relapse prevention planning.

The youth-focused setting is designed to help young women build healthy coping strategies and a foundation for long-term recovery.

Quick Facts: Abraxas Center Adolescent Females

Location: 306 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Approach: Gender-specific, youth-oriented care with counseling, peer support and life-skills development
Therapies: Individual, group and family counseling, plus relapse prevention
Payment options: Self-pay, Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance may be accepted

Edited by: Maygen Brockway

Addiction Treatment Programs

Drug Rehab
The goal of a drug rehab in Pennsylvania is to give you the tools and skills you need to achieve long-term recovery. These treatment programs offer detox, inpatient treatment, and outpatient care. You may receive individual, group, and family counseling, peer support, and classes in essential life skills.
Dual Diagnosis
A dual diagnosis, when you have mental health and substance use concerns, can make recovery harder. Be sure to choose a rehab in Pennsylvania that can address both issues. Part of treatment will include managing your mental health symptoms so you aren’t tempted to use substances to self-medicate. This can be done without counseling and medication.
Young Adult Rehab
Those who join a young adult rehab program in Pennsylvania are given training in key life skills to help them transition to adulthood. These treatment programs offer detox, inpatient treatment, and outpatient care tailored to the unique needs and challenges of young adults.
Women's Rehab
Women’s rehab programs in Pennsylvania address the unique needs of women in a safe, gender-specific environment. These treatment programs offer detox, inpatient treatment, and outpatient care tailored to the unique needs and challenges of women. They generally also include life skills training tailored to the client’s needs.
Drug and Alcohol Outpatient Services
This program provides outpatient substance use treatment for adolescents, integrating drug and alcohol counseling within Abraxas Youth and Family Services’ broader continuum of community-based behavioral health supports.
Intensive Family Services
Intensive Family Services is an in-home, community-based program through Abraxas Youth and Family Services designed to stabilize families and help youth with behavioral or substance use concerns remain safely at home.
School-Based Services
Delivered directly in school settings, this program supports students’ behavioral health needs, extending Abraxas Youth and Family Services’ community-based care model into educational environments across Pennsylvania.
Community Reentry Program
Abraxas Youth and Family Services offers reentry support for justice-involved adults, combining employment-focused services with structured programming to aid transition back into the community.
Functional Family Therapy Program
This structured family intervention track addresses behavioral problems in youth using evidence-based methods, part of Abraxas Youth and Family Services’ family-centered treatment continuum.
Multisystemic Therapy Program
An intensive, family- and community-focused treatment track for chronic and violent juvenile offenders, addressing environmental systems as part of Abraxas Youth and Family Services’ justice-involved programming.

Insurance Coverage

Self-pay options
Self-pay is an option for paying for rehab in Pennsylvania that maximizes your ability to choose the treatment center. You can use a medical loan, write a check, or electronically send money to the center. Payment arrangements may vary depending on the type of treatment
Medicare
Medicare is a good way to pay for substance use treatment in Pennsylvania. You’ll want to find a treatment center that accepts your Medicare plan and find out details about coverage and out-of-pocket costs.
Medicaid
If you qualify in Pennsylvania, Medicaid is one of your options when it comes to paying for rehab. Programs that accept Medicaid can offer any level of care, including detox, inpatient, and outpatient. Your out-of-pocket costs, if any, are likely to be very low.
Private insurance
One option for paying for rehab in Pennsylvania is using private insurance. Plans vary, so be sure to contact your insurance company to find out coverage details and what copayments or deductibles you might be responsible for.

Levels of Care

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Detox Treatment
The first step into a life you love is detoxing from the substances you use. Then you can start treatment in Pennsylvania fresh. Detox may be uncomfortable, but most programs monitor you and provide treatment for withdrawal symptoms. In the end, you’ll be able to start your new life substance-free.
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Inpatient Rehab
For many people, it’s important to focus entirely on recovery without distractions, and inpatient treatment in Pennsylvania gives you that opportunity. Building a new life for yourself is challenging, and the focused, uninterrupted treatment you receive during inpatient care can help you lay that foundation.
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Outpatient Rehab
Abraxas Youth and Family Services offers outpatient drug and alcohol treatment for adolescents with substance use disorders, combining counseling and case management within a community-based care model in Pittsburgh.
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Sober Living Homes
Overcoming substance use is a lifelong process. Sober living in Pennsylvania gives you a safe living environment so you can start building your new life. Sober living may provide access to ongoing counseling, additional life-skills training, peer support, and recovery support groups.

Therapies

Individual Counseling
Abraxas Youth and Family Services provides one-on-one counseling for adolescents facing substance use and behavioral health challenges, delivered within community-based and outpatient settings across the Pittsburgh area.
Family Counseling
Family-centered counseling helps stabilize households and supports youth remaining safely at home, reflecting Abraxas Youth and Family Services’ community-based approach to substance use and behavioral health treatment.
Group Counseling
Group counseling sessions bring adolescents together to address substance use and behavioral concerns, offered through outpatient programming at Abraxas Youth and Family Services’ Pittsburgh location.
Case Management
Case management services coordinate care across outpatient, in-home, and school-based supports, helping youth and families at Abraxas Youth and Family Services navigate treatment and community resources in Pittsburgh.
Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
Functional Family Therapy is an evidence-based family intervention used by Abraxas Youth and Family Services to address behavioral problems in youth through structured, family-focused therapeutic work.
Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
Multisystemic Therapy is an intensive, family- and community-based treatment model applied by Abraxas Youth and Family Services to address environmental factors impacting chronic and violent juvenile offenders.