About Us

Catawba Community Mental Health Center provides mental health services to people of all ages, offering counseling, psychiatric assessment, medication management, crisis intervention, and other services to those experiencing serious mental illness and significant emotional disorders. We have psychiatrists, nurses, counselors, and others who provide direct clinical services, as well as administrative staff who support the clinical mission.

Who We Serve

The Catawba Community Mental Health Center provides emergency services, case management, outpatient counseling and psychiatric treatment for children, adolescents, adults, and families in Chester, Lancaster, and York Counties.

The priority populations that we serve are:

adults with serious and persistent mental illness
adults with major, acute psychiatric concerns
children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances

OUR MISSION

Catawba Community Mental Health Center, in partnership with patients, families and their diverse communities, will support the recovery citizens with mental illness.

OUR PRIORITIES

Catawba Community Mental Health Center will give priority to adults and children with serious mental illnesses and serious emotional disturbances and will fulfill its legislative mandates. We will work cooperatively with other agencies, both public and private, to assure continuity of services based on the needs of the individual.

OUR VALUES

Respect for the Individual – We believe that the people we serve have the right to personal dignity, respect and the highest possible degree of independence. We are committed to services that promote the individual’s quality of life, focus on the individual’s strengths, foster independence, and honor the rights, wishes and needs of the individual.

Support for Local Care – We believe that people are best served within their home community. We are committed to the availability of a full and flexible range of coordinated services with the community as the primary focus of care, and services that appropriately meet the needs of the individual in the most normal environment possible. We are committed to programs which build upon the local support provided by family, friends, other agencies and the community, and which offer employment, leisure, learning, residential and psychiatric/rehabilitation services within this supportive framework.

Professionalism and Commitment to Quality – We believe that we should encourage and reward excellence. We will create a work environment which inspires and promotes innovation and creativity, supports education and research, and continually seeks more efficient and effective ways to provide clinical and administrative services. We are committed to a skilled and ethical work force, culturally competent and dedicated to the highest standards of courtesy, understanding and respect. We will be an agency worthy of the highest level of public trust.

RECOVERY ORIENTED SYSTEM

The South Carolina Department of Mental Health is a recovery-oriented system. The agency and all its treatment centers and facilities incorporate the recovery philosophy.

Where We are Located

CLINIC LOCATIONS

We have clinics located in Chester, Lancaster, and York counties. Click here, to view our locations.

School Based
For the convenience of our patients, we are able to hold appointments at some local schools during school hours.

Telehealth
We offer services via phone and/or video call for the convenience of our patients. This allows connection between patients and psychiatrist and other clinical staff without the need to travel.

Community Based
We have clinicians seeing patients in multiple community based locations including Pathways Community Center, York County Mental Health Court, Moss Justice System, and the Chester County Detention Center.

Catawba Community Mental Health Center does not discriminate against or refuse services to anyone based on age, sex, gender, race, religion, disability, national origin, health status, sexual orientation or economic status.