Gulf Coast Mental Health Center - Region 13 Mental Health Services - Drug Rehab

Gulf Coast Mental Health Center is a full-service community mental health center providing a wide range of mental health and mental retardation services to the residents of Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River, and Stone Counties.

People are confronted almost daily with the prospect of growth and change. For many, perhaps most, of us, this confrontation is beset with difficulties.

At Gulf Coast Mental Health Center, we believe it is during these difficult times that sound professional services can be of value. Always, our goal will be to assist people in the process of growth - never to make changes for them.

Please take time to review the community mental health services offered to residents of our service area, and call us at any time you feel we might be of service to you.

Gulf Coast Mental Health Center is a full-service community mental health center providing a wide range of mental health and mental retardation services to the residents of Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River, and Stone Counties.

Gulf Coast Mental Health Center
Region 13 Mental Health Services
1600 Broad Ave
Gulfport MS 39501-3603
Tel: 228 863-1132
Fax: 228 865-1700

SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES

Trained substance abuse professionals provide clinical treatment for alcohol and drug problems through a number of program components, to include: outpatient therapy, offering both individual and group treatment; an intensive outpatient program, which meets three nights a weeks for 12 weeks, followed by nine months of continuing outpatient individual and group therapy; a drug court partnership with the Second Circuit Court District; intensive chemical dependency therapy, which includes a four-week residential treatment program followed by 11 months of continuing outpatient care; and, for multiple-DUI offenders, a 20 hour State Certified program, consisting of assessment followed by individual and group therapy. Prevention services are also provided to local schools and community groups.

The Substance Abuse Program combines the AA/NA model with psychotherapeutic techniques.