Acenda Integrated Health (also called simply Acenda) is a nonprofit behavioral healthcare provider offering over 100 life-enhancing services throughout New Jersey. Acenda serves individuals of all ages, plus families. They specialize in serving at-risk individuals and families throughout New Jersey, including at this Gloucester County site with Genoa Healthcare. Acenda has accreditation from the Joint Commission and the state of New Jersey.
Their
outpatient treatment, typically lasting 12-16 weeks, is open to anyone. For women, there is also a nearby building for
residential treatment, which typically lasts 3-10 months. The residential treatment building, named Pettirosso, has staff on-site 24/7 to help women with medical and psychological concerns. After residential treatment, Acenda can treat clients with their "partial care" program that helps ladies transition from inpatient treatment to a less intense level of outpatient care in a safe manner.
Their treatment takes an evidence-based approach that includes the common talk therapies
cognitive behavioral therapy (
CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) with medication-assisted therapies (
MAT) and medication management. Some less common therapies that Acenda has experience facilitating are parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) and trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) for cases where those therapies apply. They can also tweak their therapy to meet the needs of veterans, individuals with autism, pregnant women, and moms with kids up to 3. Acenda serves people in in both their physical locations and their HIPAA-compliant video platform.
Since this location is near Rowan College, Acenda works with the campus to serve the students and faculty there.
Acenda's website has their full list of offerings, including crisis intervention, preventative services, and temporary homestays. They have additional webpages for the event calendars at their Family Service Centers. Their listings on Recovery.com catalog the mental health and substance use treatments at their locations that include those services.
Evidence-Based Context: According to SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2023), approximately 48.7 million Americans aged 12 or older had a substance use disorder in the past year. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) emphasizes that treatment programs combining behavioral therapy with medication-assisted approaches show the highest rates of sustained recovery. Facilities like Acenda Sewell provide structured pathways to evidence-based care.
Sources: SAMHSA NSDUH 2023, NIDA Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment (4th Ed.)