Local Resources

Child Guidance Resource Centers

• private, non-profit, community behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to providing quality care and educational services that best meet the needs of children, youth, and their families in the Tri-State area
• provides high quality, community-based therapeutic, supportive, and preventive behavioral healthcare services for children, adolescents, and their families with mental health, developmental disability, and residential needs
  

DBSA (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance) Delaware County

• provides hope, help, and support to improve the lives of people with depression and bipolar disorder through peer-based, recovery-oriented, empowering services and resources
  

Delaware County Suicide Prevention and Awareness Task Force

• reduces the loss and suffering caused by suicide and suicidal behavior
• in the business of prevention, intervention, and post-intervention program implementation, facilitation, and promotion
• offers information and education about, and assistance and support to, efforts to lessen the incidence of suicide and the stigma associated with suicide and suicide loss

• has several uniquely designated behavioral health centers
• treat individuals ages 14 year and up
  

• improves the lives of people with mental illnesses and their families
  

• provides brief intensive crisis intervention by mobile outreach or by phone
• stabilizes immediate crisis and provides emergency mental status assessments/evaluations
• supports the individual/family/school in developing means of coping with and preventing future crisis
• formulates follow-up plans and provides brief follow-up support
• provides information and referrals to individuals, families, and schools

• free telephone support for teens after school hours