San Diego County Treatment Centers — Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Boardwalk Recovery Center provides intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programming in San Diego's Pacific Beach neighborhood. Its clinical addiction services combine therapeutic modalities with experiential therapies, and the center maintains an insurance coverage guide to help prospective clients understand their benefits. The program accepts private insurance and military insurance.

Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC) provides intensive outpatient substance use treatment in San Diego, California. In operation for over 50 years, UPAC is a multicultural behavioral health organization whose team speaks more than 20 languages and dialects, serving over 7,000 unique clients annually across 44 cultures. Named programs include the Adult Addiction Treatment and Recovery Program, Expanding Horizons for transitional-age youth, and the Teen Recovery Center. UPAC accepts Medicare and state-financed insurance and offers services in English and Vietnamese.

The Betty Ford Center in San Diego provides intensive outpatient substance use treatment as part of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the nation’s largest nonprofit addiction treatment organization. The San Diego clinic offers day and evening IOP tracks with evidence-based treatment including individual therapy, group counseling, family programming, and continuing care planning. Founded in 1982, the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation operates treatment centers across the country and accepts private insurance and self-pay.

Evolve Teen Outpatient Treatment provides intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programming for adolescents ages 12–17 in Del Mar, California. Evolve specializes in evidence-based treatment for teens struggling with substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions, offering dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), family therapy, and academic support. The program is designed to allow teens to continue attending school while receiving structured treatment. Evolve accepts private insurance.

McAlister Institute, founded in 1977, is one of San Diego County's largest alcohol and drug treatment providers with 24 programs across the region. Its Escondido location on East Washington Avenue offers intensive outpatient and outpatient substance use treatment, with most programs accepting Medi-Cal (Medicaid). The nonprofit provider also accepts Medicare and military insurance.

TURN Behavioral Health Services, operated by Mental Health Systems, provides intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) in California. The program serves adults and adolescents with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions, offering cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and family therapy as part of a community-based approach. TURN accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, military insurance, and state-financed coverage.