For Immediate Help

Please call 1-800-951-3792 and we will guide you through the process and help find an appropriate provider of services.

Procedure for Accessing the Crisis Continuum of Care (8/9/2010) Word PDF

What to expect

Please watch our presentation (broadband connection recommended) that explains the evaluation process.

For dial up users you can read the text by clicking here.

Find a Provider

If you would prefer, you can search for a provider. Please note that you will still need to go through the evaluation process.

Child Mental Health Group Home Transition Information

Western Highlands Network Offers Mental Health First Aid Training

This is a 12 hour certification course that teaches participants how to intervene during a mental health or substance abuse crisis and during the early stages of a developing mental health or substance abuse disorder until professional help can be obtained. This international course began in Australia and is now being taught in 10 countries, including the United States. Topics covered include depressive and mood disorders, anxiety disorders, non-suicidal self injury, psychosis, substance use disorders, and eating disorders.

Click here for more information and registration.

Attention Peer Support Specialists (PSS):

Providers lists PSS job vacancies using a state wide data base through the Behavioral Health Resource Program (BHRP) at http://bhrp.sowo.unc.edu/index.php?q=node/109. NC PSS certification guidelines and forms are also located on this website.

Recovery Works, Inc.

Recovery Works, Inc is a consumer-run non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing opportunities for recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders through the development of an effective, well-trained peer workforce by providing recovery education, support and training to our peers and professionals throughout North Carolina.

You are invited to join the NC Peer Specialist social network sponsored by Recovery Works, Inc.

Click the thumbnail to find out more!

Online Recovery Support was born out of an idea that everyone in recovery should have a place to call home. This place could exist on the Internet and be a place for people to gather and share anything they felt was appropriate and relevant to their healing or recovery process. A place that was free to everyone, and gave anyone who visited an opportunity to express themselves about chemical dependency or mental illness and find support if they needed it. Professionals can talk about their services and share material that is relevant to healing in any form. Family members, partners, therapists, counselors, addicts. Onlinerecoverysupport is for anyone who is looking for a place in the recovering community to call home. We welcome you. Please click the icon to the left to access this site.

Research reveals that by age 12, many of our youth have started experimenting with drugs and alcohol. By age 16, almost twenty percent are drinking and/or using substances to the level of addiction.

"TWELVE" is the honest, first person testimonial of surviving those years, and for many, surviving the subsequent years of a misunderstood and debilitating substance abuse battle. Please click the icon above to view this 45 minute documentary which shows young alcoholics and drug addicts that are seeking a better way of life through a process called RECOVERY.

Consumer Handbooks


Click on the icon above to download a PDF version of the Western Highlands Network Consumer Handbook or click here for the Spanish version.	Click on the icon above to download a PDF version of the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services' Consumer Handbook or click here for the Spanish versio n.