Northern California Treatment Services

The evolution of today’s Northern California Treatment Services began in 2008 when Mr. Michael Anderson, now Executive Director of NCTS, introduced Eric J. Almquist to Travis Philmlee.  Mr. Almquist came from a real estate background and had several properties in Oroville owned by the Oroville Economic & Community Development Corporation (OECDC), a 501©3 non-profit corporation.  He was interested in converting the use of these properties from rentals to programs which might help people and the community.  Mr. Philmlee operated Northern California Treatment Services, Inc., in Marysville, CA, a drug and alcohol treatment program that he started there in 2001.  Financial difficulties motivated Mr. Philmlee's decision to change his operation.  They soon agreed to move from Marysville to Oroville where the real estate owned by Mr. Almquist’s company could be utilized.  The assets of Northern California Treatment Services, Inc., were acquired and the corporation was closed.  The new venture retained the name and Mr. Philmlee became a private, independent consultant providing assistance during the transition.  The new company combined the eight years of program operating history and expertise of the previous NCTS merged with the availability of facilities and new business management.  Moving quickly, Mr. Almquist hired Michael Anderson to run the operations and set about to convert the properties to treatment facilities. Michael hired Ray Anderson for construction and maintenance and Jean Ensele for office management and bookkeeping.  Christine Moore was soon brought on as an assistant for him.

Our first Facility is the Myers house in South Oroville.  This facility provides clean and sober living for substance abusers, parolees from the criminal justice system and Veterans with substance abuse dependence.  It is a two-bedroom home in front and the adjacent three-bedroom home which is capable of providing housing for 11 persons.  We, then, changed the Idora house to a Sober Living Environment.  The house located at 2259-A Wyandotte was used for our office and outpatient counseling services until our present facility at 3114 Myers St. was acquired.  This deliberately understated facility was selected to blend into the community and was substantially rehabilitated to change the image of a substandard area.  Women receive assistance with substance abuse recovery at the house on Ft. Wayne.  Lastly, we expect to utilize the Safford four-plex in Oroville.  When completed, this property will accommodate 16 clients.  By year end, we expect to have all facilities completely up and operating, poised for a new year of successful expansion.  Our future plans include expanding to adjacent counties.  In conversations with WestCare, they would be quite interested in having additional facilities in Tehama, Shasta, Glenn, and Plumas counties.  Once we are established in Butte County, we have interest in expanding elsewhere.  Our three-year plan includes at least two care homes in each of these counties for a total of eight additional homes.