Community Alliance Rehabilitation Services

Community Alliance Rehabilitation Services is a non-profit organization based in Omaha, Nebraska that provides a range of behavioral health services. It serves individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders.

Through several multi-year grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Community Alliance has carried out projects focused on improving services for transition-aged youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions, expanding supported employment services, providing housing and supportive services to adults experiencing homelessness, increasing suicide prevention efforts, integrating physical and behavioral health care, and bolstering psychosocial rehabilitation services. Key initiatives funded by these SAMHSA grants include establishing coordinated care systems, developing referral pathways to evidence-based practices, embedding employment specialists across programs, providing permanent supportive housing, implementing integrated dual disorder treatment, motivational interviewing and other clinical interventions, training staff on cultural competency and trauma-informed care, and delivering services like Assertive Community Treatment, First Episode Psychosis treatment, family psychoeducation, supported education, intensive outpatient substance use treatment, and medication-assisted treatment. Community Alliance has also partnered with state agencies, local organizations like the Women's Center for Advancement, hospitals, and businesses to further the reach and impact of these federally funded programs serving vulnerable populations in the Omaha region.