About Us

Coastal Empire Community Mental Health Center offers a wide variety of mental health services for children, adolescents, adults, and families. We are committed to offering the highest quality of treatment that is proven to produce positive results.

Who We Serve

The Coastal Empire Community Mental Health Center provides emergency services, case management, outpatient counseling and psychiatric treatment for children, adolescents, adults, and families in Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper 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 disturbance

OUR MISSION

The men and women of the Coastal Empire Community Mental Health Center, in partnership with patients, families and their diverse communities, will support the recovery citizens with mental illness.

OUR PRIORITIES

Coastal Empire 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.

Patient Advisory Board–  CECMHC is guided by the feedback and needs that are identified by our community. We strive to provide quality care to our community that uniquely responds to their needs. Towards providing that care we have established a patient advisory board that is constituted by active patient’s of CECMHC that meets quarterly and discusses our processes and services.

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.