Communicare is the community mental health center serving the Northern Central counties of Mississippi, including Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate, and Yalobusha. In addition to outpatient offices in each county served, Communicare operates a group home for women who have serious mental illness and a residential substance abuse treatment center, and provides school based services in several public educational systems. Communicare's service philosophy is to provide high-quality clinical services to meet the specific needs of each individual.

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Services Offered

Children's Services
Communicare provides mental health services, including screening, assessment, counseling, and/or crisis intervention to children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems, along with their families.

Outpatient School-Based Program
Communicare's Outpatient School-Based Program provides multifaceted services in our offices and throughout multiple school districts. Services are designed to serve children and youth with emotional or behavioral problems along with their families and can include screening, assessment, counseling, and/or crisis intervention.

Therapeutic Day Treatment Program
Communicare's Therapeutic Day Treatment Program provides intensive therapeutic services to school-age children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbances enabling them to remain in the least restrictive learning environment.

L.E.E.P. Leading, Educating, Empowering, & Providing For Our Families
The L.E.E.P. Project provides self-help and mutual support for families of children and youth with serious emotional disturbances or mental health challenges. This service increases the knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents and family members in parenting their child/youth.

Intellectual Developmental Disabilities Services
Communicare offers a wide variety of services to individuals with a diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disabilities that include: Day Services Adult, Behavior Supports, Home Community Supports, Community Respite, Job Discovery, Supported Employment, and Pre-Vocational.

Prevention Services
Communicare's prevention services primarily target children, adolescents, and college-aged populations (including the University of Mississippi - located in Communicare's service area). Currently, Communicare is involved a number of projects, including a mental health education program designed to destigmatizing mental illness, a merchant education training program focusing on reducing tobacco sales to minors, and a prevention partnership with the goal of bringing empirically supported prevention programs to Communicare's service area.

Crisis Services
Individuals experiencing a crisis frequently are inappropriately and unnecessarily placed in jail, holding facility, hospital, or inpatient treatment program.

Fees and Payment

This is a nonprofit organization.

Services Offered To:
Adults
Teens
Children

Payment:
Sliding Scale