Children's and Adult Mental Health Services
Children's Mental Health Services
24 HOUR CRISIS LINE - 601.376.0500
Children's Mental Health staff recognizes the importance of the family and community, and work diligently to help families resolve crises without disrupting the family unit. Home and neighborhood based interventions and collaborating with families’ informal and formal support systems are key program components. When a youth has a serious emotional disturbance, the youth and each family member face many challenges, and they deserve compassion and support as they face them.
There is no place for blaming, using shame, passing judgment, or doubting the competence of families in programs claiming to offer assistance in crisis situations. Each family and
It is our belief that families and youth deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, especially so when they are facing a crisis.
Crisis Response and Outreach
Crisis intervention services are available 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Crisis services include telephone and mobile response. Telephone services involve providing phone support and/or referral information about community resources. Mobile crisis services involve on-site intervention at the convenience of the family in crisis. The family is assisted in developing a crisis plan and referrals to other Children’s Mental Health or community services, such as Hope Haven Residential or Hope Haven Home Based Services, may be made.
Hope Haven Home-Based Services
Hope Haven provides home-based counseling and service coordination to families with children ages 3-18 in crisis located in the Hinds, Madison, and Rankin county areas. Support is provided in both the school and community environments. Services are available to families whose children have a mental health diagnosis or would be eligible upon evaluation by a psychiatrist or psychologist. Counseling services are designed to assist the family in resolving the crisis and in keeping the youth at home. Services are typically provided for 6 to 8 weeks.
Hope Haven Residential Services
Hope Haven provides residential services in a therapeutic crisis center that serves youth 12 – 18 and their families. Services involve short-term respite with individual and group therapy. Residents are encouraged to make positive choices and take personal responsibility for their actions. While in the residential program, families are encouraged to visit often and continue to involve their child in community activities such as school, church, and family outings. The crisis line can be used for residential or home based services.
Natchez Office Children's Program (Shelter & SSO Service)
The Children's program component focuses on positive discipline, anger and stress management, and cultural outlets for the children. In addition to typical day care activities, volunteers and staff assist children with schoolwork to help them be successful in school throughout their trauma recovery.
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Individual & Group Therapy
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Educational Tutoring, Emotional and Relational Development
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Sense of Stability and Security
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Indoor/Outdoor Recreational and Expressive Therapy Opportunities
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Age-Specific Activities for Children (particularly after school and during summer)
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Present Alternatives to Delinquent Behavior Patterns
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Support Parents and Assist Them to become Confident with their Parenting Techniques
Therapeutic Foster Care
Therapeutic Foster Care offers intensive in-home intervention, individual, family therapy, case management, advocacy, consultation, and support to seriously emotionally disturbed youth, their biological families and their foster families. All services are provided using wrap-around principles with a primary goal of achieving permanency for children/youth who are unable to be served in less restrictive settings. Children served range from 2 to 20 years and come from all regions of the state. Program offices are in Jackson, Mississippi and foster homes are located within a sixty mile radius of Jackson.
Solomon Counseling Center
The Solomon Counseling Center was developed in response to the growing needs of central Mississippi for affordable, comprehensive, and professional counseling services for individuals, couples and families. Our services are offered to children and adolescents, parents, couples, and individuals. The Solomon Counseling Center is a Department of Mental Health certified community outpatient counseling center for children and adolescents. Our talented clinical and support staff offer a combined 112 years of experience in the mental health field.
Counseling at The Solomon Center is offered through a continuum of interventions: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Trauma- Focused CBT; EMDR; 1, 2, 3, Magic parenting program; Gottman therapy for couples; Cognitive Processing Therapy for adults who have experienced a traumatic event; SPARCS--a group intervention for adolescents responding to chronic stress; and Psychological First Aid--an intervention to assist people in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
Appointments are available Monday through Friday, 8:30am until 5:00pm. After-hour appointments available based on counselors' availability.
Alcohol & Drug Services
BORN FREE is a primary residential treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women needing assistance to recover from chemical addictions.
NEW BEGINNINGS is the transitional program. Women and their children are admitted to the transitional program after the women have completed primary treatment in Born Free or other treatment programs.
All admissions to Born Free and New Beginnings are on a voluntary basis. Women may bring their children under age five to live with them in the home. Both these programs stress the importance of involvement of residents’ family members and significant others in the comprehensive treatment process offered by these programs. The program provides follow-up care for up to one year for residents who successfully complete treatment.
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youth seeking services bring with them unique lifestyles, goals, socio-cultural values, support systems, strengths, insights and needs and these serve as the guiding forces in treatment planning and interventions. We view families as partners in the treatment process and recognize that successful interventions require aligning with families, capitalizing on strengths, and respecting families’ complex relationships.
Children's Mental Health staff members are always guided by what is in the best interest of youth and families and adapt services to youth’ and families’ needs, creating hope and opportunity in those situations, which have traditionally been viewed as difficult.