History

High Focus Centers has a strong reputation for innovative programming and has an unmatched record of initiatives that have changed substance abuse and psychiatric treatment in New Jersey for 30 years.  We have since expanded our services to Connecticut, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Our contributions include:

  • In 1994, we created the first substance abuse adolescent intensive outpatient program (IOP) in the state.
  • In 2001, we were the first to integrate an adolescent psychiatric partial day program and an after-school psychiatric IOP.
  • In 2008, we developed a specialized IOP protocol for opiate addiction, a first in New Jersey, as part of our substance abuse treatment programs.

In 2012, High Focus Centers joined the Pyramid Healthcare family of behavioral health services. Pyramid Healthcare is a system of behavioral healthcare facilities located throughout the eastern United States dedicated to delivering the highest quality of substance abuse and psychiatric services. Since then High Focus has continued to innovate:

  • In 2012, we launched a specialized Young Adult Abuse Program
  • In 2013, we started a Trauma IOP, completely independent from all other programming
  • In 2014, we began the state’s first Adolescent Co-Occurring Illness IOP
  • In 2022, we expanded services into Georgia and North Carolina

  • In 2023, we expanded into Pennsylvania in a merge with The Light Program and Rehab After Work

High Focus Centers is accredited by CARF International and licensed by the NJ State Department of Human Services.

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