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What is COPE?

COPE is the Chautauqua Offices of Psychotherapy and Evaluation, Inc., a private, not-for-profit community mental health center in Walton County. The Center offers a comprehensive array of quality mental health and substance abuse treatment services, including outpatient counseling, adult residential services, prevention education, psychiatric treatment, crisis counseling, case management, screening and referral, and wellness programming for all ages.

Beginning in 1973 as the Walton County Guidance Clinic, with one program and a staff of two, COPE now serves more than 4,000 clients annually through 20 programs, and employs more than 100 professional and support personnel.

Much of COPE's daily activity involves counseling normal people with normal problems - in their marriages, with their children, at their jobs, and other situations which may cause stress or depression. Individual, group, or family therapy may be recommended depending upon the nature of the problem. Treatment helps many normal people understand their problems more fully and lead happier, more satisfying lives.

Our Mission

The C.O.P.E. Mission Statement:

To provide the highest quality behavioral healthcare services which are affordable and accessible to the individuals and families served.

Our Philosophy

As a community health center with more than 33 years of experience, COPE is committed to quality mental health care for all individuals. The Center's purpose is to aid in the prevention and alleviation of alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health problems and provide psychological and psychiatric treatment, evaluation, education, consultation, and related services in the most appropriate setting and least restrictive available for the consumers presenting problem.

Services are provided without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age, or disability. Treatment is offered in an atmosphere conducive to the dignity, self-respect, and individuality of the consumer and his or her treatment needs.

Individuals are expected to participate actively, cooperatively, and honestly in their treatment programs. All efforts are made to keep the consumer fully informed as to treatment effects, limitations, and alternatives.

Any complaint or grievance will be heard promptly by their therapist and his or her supervisor.

Fees

The acceptance of payment responsibility, based on each individual's ability to pay, is considered by COPE to be an integral part of each treatment plan and of the success of that treatment. COPE's billing policy is therefore based on each consumer's assuming responsibility for payment of services provided based upon individually verifiable financial circumstances. COPE does not deny services because of an inability to pay standard fees. We also consider third-party payments, such as Medicaid, Medicare and other insurance.

Groups

COPE Center offers a variety of Therapeutic Groups.. During group therapy, people begin to see that they are not alone and that there is hope and help. It is comforting to hear that other people have a similar difficulty and to have the support of others in the road to recovery.



The following groups are available at our DeFuniak Springs, FL location:

* Co-Occuring Mental Health and Substance Abuse
* Men's Depression
* Women's Batterer's Intervention Program
* Level 1 Substance Abuse (Offered after 5pm)
* Level 2 Substance Abuse (Offered after 5pm)
* Level 3 Substance Abuse (Offered after 5pm)
* Men's Anger Management
* Men's Batterer's Intervention Program (Offered after 5pm)
* Teen Anger Management
* Teen Substance Abuse
* Women's Depression
* Women's Anger Management
* Children's Social Skills
* Children's Behavior Management
* Children's Resiliency
* Children's Domestic Violence
* Parenting (Offered after 5pm)

All groups are offered during normal business hours, unless noted otherwise.

The following groups are available at our Beachside Counseling location in South Walton County:

* Substance Abuse Aftercare
* Level 1 Substance Abuse (Offered after 5pm)
* Level 2 Substance Abuse (Offered after 5pm)
* Anger Management
* Men's Anger Management
* Batterer's Intervention Program (Offered after 5pm)
* Coping Skills

All groups are offered during normal business hours, unless noted otherwise.

Mental Health Outpatient Services

Mental Health Outpatient Services

The philosophy of Mental Health Outpatient Services is to assess mental health needs, to facilitate mental health, growth and healing, and to interrupt mental, emotional and behavioral problems that impair life. We strive to improve the level and quality of individual and family functioning in daily living, learning, work and social environments. Mental Health Outpatient services are designed to empower the client, enhancing independence, self-sufficiency, and self esteem. Mental Health Outpatient will provide training, psycho education groups and workshops for education and prevention.

The population served will be individuals, couples, families and groups of all ages. Services will be provided to individuals, families or groups who are motivated for treatment or court ordered and are compliant with attendance, treatment objective and facility policy, and who are capable of benefiting form outpatient services. This program serves specific populations that are part of the Violence Intervention program to include such component programs as Batterer's Intervention Program, Anger Management for men or women, the Sex Offender Program, and Survivor Services. For more information on these groups, please refer to the bottom on this page.

Mental Health Outpatient services will be provided in three convenient locations for treatment: COPE North in DeFuniak Springs, COPE South in Santa Rosa Beach and Beachside Counseling in Sandestin. Mental Health Outpatient services will provide smooth orderly and effective entry into the program and its components. Mental Health Outpatient services will be responsive to emergent, urgent and routine access. Services will be provided in traditional outpatient office settings or on site locations via contractual services. Care will begin through an assessment process to determine the need for care, the type of care to provide and the need for any further assessment Mental Health Outpatient services may conduct a continuum of assessment services; beginning with a triage or a face to face screening. The assessment process may identify an individual's needs as well as identifying precipitating factors.

Treatment interventions at Mental Health Outpatient Services may include assessments, consultation, psycho-education, psychotherapy or other counseling. Treatment will include individual sessions, couples sessions, family sessions, or group sessions.

Emergency Screening / Referral Crisis Support

COPE employs Emergency Services staff who provide face-to-face unscheduled emergency screening and assessment twenty-four hours per day to the citizens of Walton County of any age who are in crisis.

These services are provided by trained screeners who are familiar with Baker/Marchman Act procedures, as well as the referring process for those not considered to be a danger to themselves or others. These services seek to provide speedy assessment and immediate placement/ referral to facilitate the client's return to the optimal level of functioning in the shortest time possible.

Emergency Professional Assessment Services may be accessed at the request of local Law Enforcement, Health Care providers, Healthmark Regional Medical Center or any individual citizen when someone is believed to be in immediate crisis by endangering themselves or others.

This access may come through Help Line, walk-in, or the general phone line. During working hours Emergency Services personnel will provide face-to-face screening, referrals and dispositions. Screenings and referrals after hours are conducted by the on-call professional back-up for the Help Line.

Batterers Intervention Program

Violence is an unfortunate part of our culture. Violence is a learned behavior.

Violence is a stone in the pond-it's ripples go far beyond the actual offender and victim. COPE Center, by offering services to violent offenders of all ages, male and female alike, seeks to stop the violence before it begins ripping through the larger community. By offering services to victims and children of victims, COPE Center helps break the cycles of violence that can destroy the happiness and well-being of generations of families.

COPE continues to extend individual and family therapy to all persons affected by violence, past or present, to help them effect their healing, and by extension, their families, neighborhoods, communities and cities.

The Batterer's Intervention Program

COPE offers a state certified Batters' Intervention Program (BIP). This six-month program creates a process of change in men who batter.

Central to the program is the concept that physical abuse is a tool of power and control over others. Other tools used for control and addressed by the BIP program are coercion and threat, emotional and economic abuse, isolation and intimidation.

The BIP is lead by specially trained mental health professionals, who use psycho-educational classes to introduce new relationship tools to men who are violent. These include negotiation, respect, shared responsibility, honest, trust and accountability.

The program is run on a cyclical basis, with three weeks devoted to analysis of each control mechanism and its appropriate counterpart.



Violence in the Community

COPE Center is committed not just to the treatment of violence, but to the prevention of future violence.

Addressing the problems of domestic violence is an integral part of COPE's strategy in helping create a better, safer community for our children and our children's children.

It is true to the point of cliché that children who experience and/or witness relationship violence are more likely to commit and/or experience violence in adulthood than are children raised in more peaceful environments. Many families are enmeshed in cycles of violence, that extend generations in the past, and may reach toward generations in the future.

COPE seeks to break the cycles of violence by bringing the best community mental health professionals together to work with offenders, as they learn to substitute negotiation for abuse, and with victims, as they learn to take responsibility for their safety and that of their children.



Education Groups for Survivors of Relationships Violence

Women and children who are victims of domestic violence are offered psycho-educational classes through COPE.

Women's groups are designed to provide members with the skills necessary to increase their safety and that of their children. They learn to recognize the tactics of abuse, and the effects on the family. Women develop their own personal safety plans, and explore options for change. They learn of their right not to be abused, and how to assert that right.

Children over the age of four are placed in groups to gain insight into family patterns that do not include abuse, and develop coping skills to deal with the families they love. These children need special care and instruction, if they are to break the cycle of violence that has engulfed their lives so far.



Violence Intervention for Our Community

Violence is a stone in the pond-it's ripples go far beyond the actual offenders and victims. COPE, by offering services to violent offenders of all ages, male and female alike, seeks to stop the violence before it begins ripping through the larger community. By offering services to victims and children of victims, COPE helps break the cycles of violence that can destroy the happiness and well-being of generations of families.

COPE continues to extend individual and family therapy to all persons affected by violence, past or present, to help them affect their healing, and by extension, their families, neighborhoods, communities and cities.



Making Family's Healthy

Once families have been identified by the police as having experienced domestic violence, they often feel that they are lost in the system over which they have no control. Their private lives become the public property of courts, attorneys, pretrial services, probation officers, and professionals of all kinds.

COPE's Comprehensive Violence Intervention Program offers families the tools they need to put their lives back together in a healthy, productive manner. Family members learn to recognize legal authorities as allies in building safe family structure that will not need the intervention of law enforcement officers in the future.

Violence intervention program will not reunite every family that utilizes their services. Often the violence has torn the family beyond repair. What these programs can do is give each individual the means to stop the patterns that have produced abuse.

Employee Assistance Program

EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

What is the EAP?

Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) are employer sponsored efforts aimed at keeping workers at peak productivity. When an employee is worried about a personal problem, he or she cannot do the job well. Some of the things that go wrong in the work place are:

Absenteeism goes up

Lateness increases

Errors skyrocket

Accidents happen

Work relationships deteriorate

Violence can occur

EAP is the answer so that little problems can be tackled before they become big ones. All large corporations and most mid sized companies offer an EAP to their employees. The government strongly recommends EAP Programs in conjunction with the Drug free Workplace initiative.

Our EAP professional will have experience dealing with workplace related problems, and also demonstrate expertise in attaining solutions that benefit both the individual workers and the workplace as a whole.

Are you or someone you know experiencing�

Marital/ Family Problems

Anger Management Problems

Physical/ Sexual/ Emotional Abuse Issues

Depression

Anxiety

Stress

Grief/ Loss

Drug Abuse

Alcohol Abuse

Domestic Violence Issues

The business community has recognized that many everyday life stresses can negatively affect employee attendance and concentration, the general workplace morale, and an employee's ability to perform well on the job. Today, many companies provide EAP services for their employees

ABOUT COST

Should your company develop a contractual relationship with COPE/Beachside, it costs you nothing to contact your Human Resources Department. If you are referred by your supervisor, your company pays for your first three visits.

If the EAP Mental Health Professional decides you might benefit from the services beyond the three visits paid for by your company, the cost related to these services may be covered by your health insurance plan. The cost of services not included in your plan will be your responsibility, in which case the EAP professional will work with you to select quality, affordable services.

CONFIDENTIALITY & PARTICIPATION

The services you receive from the EAP are protected by both state and federal laws concerning confidentiality. Your request for assistance and any information that may be shared is between you and the EAP professional. In general, information from the EAP may be released only with your prior written permission.

Participation in the EAP will not jeopardize your job. In fact, any assistance you receive in correcting a job performance problem may be looked upon as favorable.

Adult Case Management

Adult Case Management

The Case Management Services provide services to assure continuity of care to those consumers meeting the 65E-15 criteria. The major objective of Case Management is continuity of service for chronically mentally disabled individuals. There are five fundamental Case Management activities:

1) assessment

2) planning

3) linking

4) monitoring

5) advocacy



Case Management is a critical component of the community support system. Primarily case management services are those activities aimed at linking the consumer to a service system and coordinating services to achieve a successful outcome. The focus of all Case Management activities is the maintenance of each consumer's total personal network, including all supporting functions from both the natural support system and the professional service system.

In addition to mental health services, this includes the services of all other human service providers. These essential linkages are to family, friends, housing and a source of income. The Case Management department is also responsible for the liaison function with all Baker Act facilities.

Children's Case Management

Children's Case Management

The COPE Children's Case Management team is a comprehensive service program. This program is the essential assessing, planning, linking, monitoring and advocate service for children and the families of children who meet the following criteria:

Basic Case Management

The population for basic children's case management services is limited to children and adolescents ages birth through 17 who either have or are at risk for developing a serious emotional disturbance.

Targeted Case Management

Targeted Case Management provides intensive services to children ages birth through 17. Case managers providing Targeted Case Management must each limit their caseloads to a maximum of twenty (20) children.

The population for Targeted Case Management is limited to children and adolescents who have a serious emotional disturbance as indicated by:

a) A defined mental disorder diagnosis under DSM IV or current edition;

b) A level of functional disability which requires two (2) or more coordinated and integrated mental health services to enable the child to live in a home in the community and be successful in school;

c) The duration of the disability will, in professional judgment, last for at least one year.

d) The child is in an out-of-home placement or at documented risk of out-of-home placement.



This service ensures that children, youth and their families receive Mental Health services, and are linked with other resources and services necessary to result in a positive impact on their problems.

Referrals for Children's Case Management services may come from parents, Florida Department of Children and Families related service components, schools, medical or mental health professionals, and/or Psychiatric Hospitals.

Mental Health Rehabilitation

The Mental Health Rehabilitative Services program provides an environment of opportunity and training for adult model, whereby individuals are able to progress from psychiatric care units, and other restrictive environmental settings to a less restrictive and more natural home environments. Mental Health Rehabilitative Services also provides ongoing support to individuals within the program to assist them in maintaining their highest level of functioning.

Prevention

COPE Center, Inc. is dedicated to the improvement of our communities in Walton County. One of the most evident ways this is accomplished is through our community and school based prevention programs, which represent COPE's participation in both state-wide and national movements to address substance abuse before it begins or in its earliest stages. Prevention is a broad term used to incorporate all aspects of an individual that help to reduce their risk of using drugs. It begins with parents and is strengthened through our efforts. Our prevention programs have evolved through years of evaluating the effectiveness of each program.

Today our programs incorporate proven aspects of decision-making, social bonding and emotional expression to encourage children and youth to make personalized decisions about avoiding drug use, by using strategies focused on the specific risk factors of each child through Science-based Curriculums. Risk factors are certain aspects that increase the likelihood that a child/youth will try drugs. Many of these items are brought about by the child/youth themselves or a function of their environment. We strengthen the positive aspects children/youth have through themselves, school, peers, and family to make it less likely they will begin using drugs. COPE Center, Inc. facilitates a network of prevention programs in Walton County schools:

T.A.S.C.

(Treatment Alternative to Safe Communities)

The purpose of the Juvenile TASC model is to address the special considerations of juveniles involved or at risk of involvement in criminality and substance abuse. The program provides the opportunity for early intervention to forestall more serious drug use patterns in criminality.

Juvenile TASC identifies, screens, assesses and refers appropriate drug and/or alcohol involved juveniles engaged or at risk to be engaged in criminal or delinquent behavior to community based substance abuse treatment as an alternative or supplement to existing justice or human services system sanctions and procedures.

The TASC counselor then monitors the juvenile's compliance with individually tailored progress expectations for abstinence and improved social -personal functioning. Services are provided in the community, as well as at a COPE site.

Psychiatric Treatment

COPE offers psychiatric assistance and medication management for those individuals whose problems are more severe, or whose depression, anxiety, or mental illness requires medical treatment. Through therapy or therapy and medication prescribed by a full-time staff psychiatrist, a client may be able to continue living, working, and functioning in the community during treatment.

If hospitalization is required, the Center arranges admission in appropriate facilities. Treatment at the Center continues after the client is released from the hospital. This treatment may be in the form of counseling, therapy, medical help, case management, or other services.

Specialized Children's Services

Specialized Children's programs are an integral component of the continuum of services offered by C.O.P.E. The services provided encompass a broad range of evaluation and treatment areas. These services are designed to assist children and the families of children with severe emotional disturbances in achieving the highest level of functioning possible and maintaining their placements in the least restrictive environment possible. The services complement the less restrictive mental health outpatient services. The basic program areas are Intensive Therapeutic On-Site Services, Home & Community Based Rehab Services, Department of Children and Families Child Abuse Treatment, and Mental Health Rehabilitation/Day Treatment. All three areas are also encompassed within the Mobile Intervention Team.

It is the philosophy of the Specialized Children's Services Department to provide quality, individualized mental health services to emotionally disturbed children and their families. Through intensive, community-based, trans-disciplinary treatment, children with serious emotional disturbances can avoid the need for more restrictive residential and/or educational placements. Client and family �empowerment� is maximized to increase functioning levels, self reliance, self esteem and dignity.

REFERRAL

In order to participate in the Specialized Children's Services program a child must be:

- Age birth to 17 (or up to 21 if enrolled as a full time student in school)

- Enrolled in a special education program for the seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) or emotionally handicapped; OR

- Exhibits a significant impairment and level of functioning which without in-home or on-site intervention will require more intensive, restrictive and costly services.

- Parent/Caregiver commits to regular participation in children's Intensive Therapeutic On-Site/Home and Community Based Rehabilitation services

Services are designed to provide intensive on-site and in-home treatment to severely emotionally disturbed children and their families, and screening and evaluation of those children suspected of having severe emotional disturbances and may include:

Intensive Therapeutic On-Site: Children's mental health counseling services are provided to children and their families, both in the home and in appropriate community settings.

Home and Community Based Rehabilitation: These services involves a worker providing intensive individualized services in the home and in the community, to children and their families which are receiving Intensive Therapeutic On-Site services.

P.A.T.H.

(Professional Therapeutic Foster Parents)

The PATH Program is unique in every way.

First, each home is a licensed Level II Therapeutic Foster Home. These are professional Foster Homes requiring a higher standard of care.

Second, COPE will Identify and Prepare the highest quality couples and homes for this unique program. Professional Foster Parents will be provided an intensive professional development program to prepare them for the stringent requirements of special needs children.

Finally, the children are special needs children. A special needs child has unique emotional and physical needs which requires professional training, special nurturing and professional behavior management. Each home will be limited to two beds with the goal of placing one child in each home.

Professional Compensation

Professional Therapeutic Foster Parents are not only highly trained, but are highly paid. This is a professional position with higher expectations than traditional foster care programs. Our Professional Foster Parents will be compensated at a daily rate of $43.75 per day from COPE and a monthly board rate from the state. When computed on an annual bases (a child in the home every day of the year), the reimbursement rate exceeds most full time employment salaries, and in most cases, the couple can maintain their present employment.

We feel there can be no better investment in the future than the investment we make in children of our community, and we are currently recruiting and selecting prospective families for our rewarding and successful program.

Another benefit is much, if not all, of the reimbursement is tax free and the additional respite and emergency bed has the ability to make additional part time income when a second child is in the home on a short term or emergency bases. The Professional Foster Parents receive 12 days a year paid respite with additional (none overnight) respite available.

Professional Support

Each Professional Foster Home will be assigned a Mental Health Professional who specializes in the treatment of the unique emotional and behavioral needs of the children. A para-professional counselor will also be assigned to each home to assist with day-to-day needs including paper work, as well as a case manager and behavioral technician if needed. Other services available to the Professional Foster Parent are Family Therapy, Individualized Behavior Modification Programs, respite relief, transportation assistance and Psychiatric Services (for the child). We are here to serve you and your needs.

Professional Experience

COPE has served Walton County's Mental Health needs for over 30 years.

Substance Abuse - Outpatient

COPE provides two programs -

1. Substance Abuse Outpatient:

The Substance Abuse Outpatient is a structured outpatient therapeutic environment providing both day and evening services. The program provides a range of services which include education, assessment, rehabilitation, treatment services. Treatment can include group, individual, and family therapy. Individuals who have been identified or assessed as having substance abuse problems are provided short-term counseling designed to have the client recognize the problematic effects of substance abuse. This approach is also used with those significant others who have a need to deal effectively with the substance abuser.

This can be accomplished through educational material, AA/NA, and other intervention groups which deal effectively with the problems and causes underlying the abuse of drugs and alcohol. Short-term counseling also aids in identifying clients who may need additional or more restrictive treatment.


2. Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient:

The Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Treatment is available for those consumer who may be working, living in a supportive, stable environment, able to participate in community support systems and have not progressed in the addictive process to a point where more restrictive treatment is necessary. This level of care offers a highly structured schedule of treatment consisting of two days or evenings per week for two hours session along with necessary support group participation. There is significantly less disruption of work schedules, home life and community involvement at this level of care.


Substance Abuse

We understand the need for specialized treatment approaches for adults with substance abuse problems. That's why our Outpatient Programs are specifically tailored to address the unique treatment issues of adults with substance abuse problems.

The programs are flexible because we conduct sessions during the evenings hours which allow the consumer to receive services without interfering with most job and family responsibilities.

IN-JAIL SERVICES

All services provided by C.O.P.E. Center shall be made available to inmates in Walton County jail. Services are delivered in the jail whenever possible. Referrals to COPE from the Walton County jail may be made from the on-duty jailer, dispatcher or any member of the Sheriff's Department, the Public Defender or any relative, friend or citizen interested in the inmate. Case management, emergency assessment and screening are offered. Inmates may be referred to psychiatric services at COPE.

Beachside Counseling

About Beachside Counseling
Just as family physicians help people who are physically ill or injured, Beachside Counseling has professionals that help people overcome emotional, mental or behavioral problems that can interfere with everyday life. Getting help with an emotional problem is a wise step. Not only do clients benefit from the counseling services they receive, so do those closest to them� family members, friends, co-workers.

Our Philosophy
Beachside Counseling is committed to quality mental health and substance abuse care for all clients. The Center's purpose is to aid in the prevention and alleviation of alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health problems and to provide psychological and psychiatric treatment, evaluation, education, consultation, and related services in an outpatient setting.

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Services -

* Personal Care Staff on Site 24 hours a Day
* Available at All Times:
o Personal Assistance with Bathing, Dressing, Medications
o Shopping, Health Support and More
* Recreational Activity Program
* Weekly Housekeeping & Laundry Services

Amenities -

* Three Delicious Meals Served Daily, plus Snacks
* Fire Sprinkler System
* Intercom and Security System Throughout the Facility
* Handrails
* Grab Bars in Bathroom & Shower
Confidentiality
The services you receive from Beachside Counseling are protected by both state and federal laws concerning confidentiality. Your request for assistance and any information that may be shared is between you and your therapist. In general, information from Beachside Counseling may be released only with your prior written permission.

When should someone seek behavioral health care?
At some point in their lives, half the population will encounter a problem that can be helped with behavioral health care services. These services may be helpful if you or someone you know experiences the following:

* Marked change in personality
* Inability to cope with problems and daily activities
* Excessive anxiety
* Prolonged depression and apathy
* Marked changes in eating or sleeping patterns
* Thoughts or conversations about suicide
* Extreme highs and lows
* Abuse of alcohol or other drugs
* Excessive anger, hostility or violent behavior
* ADHD or learning problems
* Physical/Sexual/ Emotional Abuse Issues
* Grief/ Loss

Featured Topics

Recovery is Possible

What would it feel like to live life in fear? Fear of being rejected by folks you meet on the street and in the grocery store or your own family is afraid of you � and if that was not bad enough, you have these pesky voices running loose in your head day after day. Fear that your disability causes others to discount your ability to be a productive part of the community. Many people with mental illness struggle with these types of fears every day. Mental illnesses affect ONE in FOUR of us at some point in our lives. This means we have at least one relative, friend, neighbor or co-worker living with a mental illness and it is just as common as heart disease.

Like President Bush said, �Americans must understand and send this message: mental disability is not a scandal � it is an illness. And like physical illness, it is treatable.� No one is �immune� from mental illness no matter your age, race, religion, income or education level, but if you have a mental illness you can recover. Recovery is possible. Only half of people treated for heart disease recover, where 8 out of 10 of folks treated for depression recover. As a community we need to come together to get rid of this notion that you can't recover from depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, obsessions, phobias or other mental illnesses. We believe you can recover from alcoholism or diabetes, but fail to give someone with a mental illness the same hope?

Just like treatment for any physical illnesses or addiction, there are medications to take, activities to avoid and steps to take toward recovery and resiliency. For Example, if you are diabetic you may find it hard to stay away from sweets, but this is a life change you must make in order to recover. Whether you have a physical illness or a mental illness all you want is to get well. The first step is for our community to make mental health a priority by changing our own personal attitudes, dispelling myths about mental illness, and making mental wellness, along with physical wellness, a part of our every day lives.

Community Involvement

In a Crisis, Every Walton County Family Deserves a Place to Turn

Every day, mental illnesses and addictions affect thousands of families across Florida and in Walton County. All of these families deserve a place to turn in a crisis. However, affordable treatment of mental illnesses and addictions is not within every family's reach. COPE Center, Inc. strives to provide the highest quality of behavioral healthcare services, which are affordable and accessible to the individuals and families served. COPE Center has been helping Walton County families in crisis, since 1973.

Sadly, Florida has not met its responsibility to Florida's families. Our state ranks 47th in funding for mental health care and 35th in funding for addiction services. Florida's families deserve better. The budget crisis at the state level is forcing many local Walton County agencies to make budget cuts that could have serious consequences for Walton County's public safety, essential services and quality of life. Public safety is essential to our community and COPE is committed to providing quality behavioral health care services that increase public safety and the quality of life here in Walton County.

Community-based mental health and addiction services are a critical part of our statewide health care system. In the aftermath of the storms that hit Florida and the Gulf Coast, we know that mental health services are vital to helping families in their recovery. Now is the time to better fund mental health and addiction services-not after an emergency has occurred.

May is Mental Health Month. At this time of the year, COPE Center would like to stress the importance of mental wellness for all and ask each and every person in Walton County to become one of the 5,000 Friends of Florida Families today. It is free to join!

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