Substance Use Treatment in Ames, IA
YSS Ember Recovery
What Does YSS Ember Recovery Offer?
YSS Ember Recovery is a substance use treatment facility at 420 Kellogg Avenue, Ames, Iowa, offering residential treatment. It accepts Medicaid, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance, IHS/tribal funds and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale. Medication treatment: naltrexone.
420 Kellogg Avenue
Ames, IA 50010
SAMHSA lists this facility's programs separately: McCay; Beran.
Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.
Types of Care at YSS Ember Recovery
- Residential/24-hour residential
- Long-term residential
- Short-term residential
Payment, Insurance and Help Paying
- IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
- Medicaid
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Private health insurance
- Cash or self-payment
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
Medication Treatment
- Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
- Lofexidine or Clonidine detoxification
- Prescribes naltrexone
- Relapse prevention with naltrexone
- Clonidine
- Buprenorphine with naloxone
- Naltrexone (oral)
Who the Program Serves
- Adolescents
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Young adults
- Ages: Children/Adolescents
- Ages: Young Adults
- Accepts: Female
- Accepts: Male
Language Services
- Spanish
Licensing and Accreditation
- State substance use treatment agency
- State department of health
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
Treatment Approaches
- Anger management
- Brief intervention
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Trauma-related counseling
- 12-step facilitation
- Matrix Model
Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Screening for tobacco use
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for mental disorders
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
- Self-help groups
- Housing services
- Assistance with obtaining social services
- Mentoring/peer support
- Employment counseling or training
- Case management service
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Suicide prevention services
- Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
- Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- TB screening
Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to choose a rehab you can trust lists the questions to ask when you call, and addiction treatment in Iowa lists the state's treatment agency.