Mental Health

Operates Delaware Psychiatric Center, Delaware's only state-operated psychiatric hospital for adults.

Provides community support services to adults with psychiatric disabilities through two state-operated community mental health centers (CMHCs), New Castle County CMHC and Kent/Sussex CMHC, and through contracts with private agencies. These services include continuous treatment teams, group homes, and clinic-based services.

The CMHCs also provide mental health counseling services and 24-hour mobile crisis intervention services statewide.

Services

Delaware Psychiatric Center 

Provides psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and inpatient treatment.

Community Mental Health Clinics

DSAMH provides direct services for those in need throughout the state with three Community Mental Health Clinics.

Community Continuum of Care Programs and Residential Programs

The CCCP is a comprehensive, integrated recovery approach to working with people diagnosed with severe and persistent psychiatric disabilities (and sometimes a co-occurring drug and alcohol addiction).

DSAMH supports a variety of housing programs throughout the State to assist individuals with serious mental illness with short and long terms housing solutions.

Services for Individuals who are Homeless

The “Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness” program, or PATH, is a federally funded program whose purpose is to provide services to adult individuals with serious mental illness, including those with co-occurring substance abuse disorders, who are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless.