South Carolina Department of Mental Health

The South Carolina Department of Mental Health’s mission is to support the recovery of people with mental illnesses,
giving priority to adults with serious and persistent mental illness and children and adolescents with serious
emotional disturbances. The Agency serves approximately 100,000 people each year, approximately 30,000 of whom
are children and adolescents. As South Carolina’s public mental health system, it provides outpatient mental health
services through a network of 16 community mental health centers and associated clinics, serving all 46 SC counties,
and psychiatric hospital services via three State hospitals, including one for substance use treatment. In addition to
mental health services, the Agency provides long-term care services in one community nursing care center and three
State veterans’ nursing homes