About Lakeridge Human Services

Lakeridge Human Services (LHS) formerly Lakeridge Village, Inc. is a staple among health care providers in Detroit/Wayne County with an emphasis on Co-ocurrent Disorder with an emphasis on Substance Use Disorder Treatment and transitional housing since 2006. Its current structure has recently added an emphasis on Community Behavioral Health and Safety. LCS holds accreditation from Michigan Association for Recovery Residences (MARR) and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

LHS endeavors to build a new structure will allow us to provide a broader array of health, outreach and wrap around services for a broader population that includes clients with Co-occurrent Disorder involving substance use and mental illness and their families.

Mission: To provide safe, therapeutic community with supportive services helping people achieve and maintain good physical and mental health

Vision: To foster a safe and drug-free community that reduces crime and violence and built upon illness management and sustained recovery/life management

Social Determinants for Health

Lakeridge Community Services considers the Social Determinants for Health when providing assessments and services for all clients. The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes worldwide consideration of the Social Determinants for Health. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines Social Determinants of Health as “life-enhancing resources, such as food supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation, education, and health care, whose distribution across populations effectively determines length and quality of life.” 

Substance Use Disorder and Co-Ocurring Disorders Treatment Best Practices that

Lakeridge Provides

It is widely accepted that when treating co-occuring disorders, Medically Assisted Therapy (MAT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy work best when utilized together. LCS has been a champion in its efforts to assist adults recover from Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and chronic mental illness with an emphasis upon a Recovery-Oriented System of Care (ROSC). Combined with our collaborative partners, we’ve provided Individual amd Group Therapy, Supported Housing and outsourced Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for SUD. LVC treatments also include Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the Zero Suicide Model.

Why Lakeridge?

There is a need to expand services to become a Community Behavioral Health provider and will use guidance from World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and National Institute for Health along with other researched-based models to develop a Community Behavioral Health Model for Lakeridge Human Services.

According to reports published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA):

• Roughly 50 percent of individuals with severe mental disorders are affected by substance abuse
• Thirty-seven percent of alcohol abusers and 53 percent of drug abusers also have at least one serious mental illness.

National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) also reports that “an estimated 50 percent of homeless adults with serious mental illnesses have a co-occurring substance abuse disorder. Meanwhile, 16% of jail and prison inmates are estimated to have severe mental and substance abuse disorders. Among detainees with mental disorders, 72 percent also have a co-occurring substance abuse disorder.” Unaddressed, this problem has very detrimental effects on society.

Dual Diagnosed or co-occuring persons need an array of integrated services ranging from substance abuse treatment, mental health therapy, medical or health care, income stabilization, housing, family counseling, life-skills, social skills, legal assistance, educational support, food, assertive outreach etc. The severe nature of this disorder causes harm to the community therefore approaches must address that harm and seek to mitigate or repair it.

Lakeridge Human Services aims to reduce the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on its clients and to help them develop parenting and social skills to end familial and community cycle of inflicting Adverse Childhood Experiences on youth. LHS also utilizes the Social Resilience Model to help build resilience in clients as they overcome the impact of trauma and self-defeating behaviors. The National Institute for Health cites Frontiers in Psychiatry (2022) research indicating that, “that (1) greater severity of ACEs made individuals more likely to take drugs; (2) ACEs were positively correlated with depression, and resilience was negatively correlated with ACEs and depression; and (3) ACEs not only affected drug addiction through resilience or depression alone but also through the combined action of resilience and depression, indicating that depression led to drug addiction while resilience weakened the effect of ACEs on depression and drug addiction.”  The study shows the basic factors ACE’s of abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction were significant predictors of drug addiction.