| Table 4.12a. Facilities offering services
in sign language for the hearing impaired and in languages other than
English, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: 2011 Number |
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| Facility operation and primary focus | Number of facilities | ||||||||
| Total | Sign language |
Any language other than English |
Language services provided by: | Languages provided by staff counselor1 | |||||
| Staff counselor only |
On-call interpreter only2 |
Both staff counselor and on-call interpreter |
Spanish | American Indian/Alaska Native language |
Other | ||||
| Total | 13,720 | 3,856 | 5,680 | 2,359 | 1,953 | 1,368 | 3,503 | 122 | 969 |
| Facility operation | |||||||||
| Private non-profit | 7,869 | 2,651 | 3,611 | 1,392 | 1,364 | 855 | 2,162 | 42 | 551 |
| Private for-profit | 4,194 | 618 | 1,384 | 780 | 304 | 300 | 1,011 | 27 | 326 |
| Local, county, or community govt. | 742 | 364 | 402 | 84 | 177 | 141 | 204 | 1 | 64 |
| State government | 351 | 143 | 166 | 53 | 69 | 44 | 95 | - - | 17 |
| Federal government | 348 | 56 | 66 | 17 | 30 | 19 | 26 | 13 | 8 |
| Dept. of Veterans Affairs | 225 | 43 | 41 | 7 | 25 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 5 |
| Dept. of Defense | 89 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | - - | 2 |
| Indian Health Service | 30 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
| Other | 4 | 1 | 1 | - - | - - | 1 | 1 | - - | - - |
| Tribal government | 216 | 24 | 51 | 33 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 39 | 3 |
| Primary focus of facility | |||||||||
| Substance abuse treatment services | 8,094 | 1,899 | 3,180 | 1,549 | 892 | 739 | 2,171 | 48 | 554 |
| Mental health services | 877 | 334 | 368 | 77 | 205 | 86 | 149 | 6 | 51 |
| Mix
of mental health and substance abuse treatment services |
4,385 | 1,552 | 2,010 | 689 | 816 | 505 | 1,110 | 64 | 344 |
| General health care | 190 | 46 | 64 | 19 | 26 | 19 | 32 | 4 | 10 |
| Other/unknown | 174 | 25 | 58 | 25 | 14 | 19 | 41 | - - | 10 |
| 1 Number of facilities based on facilities where languages services are provided by staff counselors only and by both staff counselors and on-call interpreters. | |||||||||
| 2 Facilities that offered services in any language other than English but did not have a valid response to language provider were classified as providing services by an on-call interpreter only. | |||||||||
| - - Quantity is zero. | |||||||||
| SOURCE: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2011. | |||||||||