• General Psychiatric Service
• Forensic Psychiatric Service
• Sex Offenders Program
• Whitehall Campus 

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The Lincoln Regional Center, a 250 bed, Joint Commission-accredited state psychiatric hospital, is operated by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.  The Lincoln Regional Center serves people who need very specialized psychiatric services and provides services to people who, because of mental illness, require a highly structured treatment setting.  The services provided include:

General Psychiatric Service:  The General Psychiatric Service is for people with severe and persistent mental illness who have been committed by a mental health board due to mental illness and dangerous behaviors.  The primary mission of the General Psychiatric Service is to help individuals stabilize and return to live in the community.  Interdisciplinary treatment teams develop individualized treatment plans based upon assessments completed at the time of admission.  Discharge planning is part of the treatment plan, and starts when an individual is admitted. 

Forensic Psychiatric Service:  The Forensic Psychiatric Service provides evaluation, assessments, and treatment for individuals as ordered by the Nebraska legal systems.  The program offers a structured treatment approach which is individualized to the specific needs of the individual patients.  Individuals admitted to the Forensic Psychiatric Service typically have severe and persistent psychiatric disorders; may have failed to respond to community based services, and are ordered for evaluation through the court for an alleged crime.

Sex Offender Service:  The Sex Offender Service provides treatment for patients who have a history of sexually deviant behavior.   The population includes individuals identified as convicted sex offenders serving sentences through the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and those individuals who have been committed under an inpatient mental health board order.  In addition, a transition program works to gradually release the patients with appropriate safeguards to allow patients the opportunity to successfully return to the community.

Whitehall Campus:  The Whitehall Campus at LRC addresses the treatment needs of male adolescents who have offended sexually.   There are residential and treatment group home levels of care.  Each youth has his own room. The program is family-centered and has its own school on the campus.   Youth who complete treatment at Whitehall have a low incidence of reoffending sexually based on an independent study that followed the youth over seven years from completion of treatment.

Stacey Werth-Sweeney   Stacey.Werthsweeney@Nebraska.Gov

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