Dorchester Community Mental Health Center

The Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center offers psychiatric services that help individuals and families move toward optimal and independent functioning. It serves adults with serious and persistent mental illness and major and acute psychiatric concerns. The center also provides services to children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances. The Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center employs more than 400 staff members with clinical personnel located in schools, child abuse facilities, jails, homeless shelters, health centers and other sites. In addition to administrative staff, the center employs psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, counselors and others who provide direct clinical services. Located in Summerville, S.C., the center is comprised of a variety of clinics and special programs.