For immediate access to routine or crisis services, please call the Georgia Crisis and Access Line (GCAL) at 1-800-715-4225. GCAL is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year to help you or someone you care for in a crisis. GCAL professionals will:

• Provide telephonic crisis intervention services

• Dispatch mobile crisis teams

• Assist individuals in finding an open crisis or detox bed across the State

• Link individuals with urgent appointment services

Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States – 24/7, free, confidential. Crisis Text Line (CTL) is here for you. A live, trained volunteer Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds, all from our secure online platform. The volunteer Crisis Counselor will help you move from a hot moment to a cool calm.

Call 800.656.HOPE (4673) to be connected with a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in your area.

How does it work? When you call 800.656.HOPE (4673), you’ll be routed to a local RAINN affiliate organization based on the first six digits of your phone number. Cell phone callers have the option to enter the ZIP code of their current location to more accurately locate the nearest sexual assault service provider.

The Peer2Peer Warm Line provides Georgians the opportunity to receive peer support over the phone 24 hours a day. A Certified Peer Specialist is a person with lived experience recovering from behavioral health concerns, who has received special training to be able to listen with empathy, and who can provide assistance and resources to others.

Who calls the Peer2Peer Warm Line?

• People who live with chronic behavioral health conditions like depression or anxiety.

• People who are experiencing life’s challenges, such as grief, or unemployment

• People who have limited mobility, but want to remain connected to others

• People who are recovering from trauma, and need support

How to contact the Peer2Peer Warm Line?

Call 888-945-1414 (toll-free) statewide

• Mike Fowler, MS, LPC, NCC, BCPCC
• Charles L. Britt, Jr. MS, LPC, NCC, CPCS
• Stephanie Marusarz, MA, LPC, NCC
• Lauren Mullins, M.A., LPC, LMHC
• Lindsey Smith, MA

New Hope Counseling was founded in 1996 with the primary goal to make quality counseling affordable to ALL persons in need of outpatient services. New Hope provides comprehensive outpatient programming for the treatment of addictive diseases and their emotional, mental, and behavioral consequences.

• Edward Clark, LPC, CCADC, CTP

• Jennifer Shell, MA, LPC, NCC, Therapist

PRN is a FREE anonymous support group specifically for parents of loved ones (of any age) who are dealing with substance abuse or addictions of any kind. Upon discovering their child’s substance use or addiction, parents often struggle with feelings of shock, denial, and even intense anger and rage. PRN is there to help parents navigate through this emotional storm by providing friendship as well as resources and education on addiction and treatment options.

Al-Anon is a mutual support program for people who are living with–or have lived with–someone whose drinking created problems for themselves or others. Alateen is Al-Anon’s recovery program for young people, teenagers up to age 19, who are living with or affected by the problem drinking of another person.

The Insight Program is a teen addiction treatment / drug rehab program in the Roswell / Alpharetta, GA area. We specialize in working with young adults and teens through drug addiction, substance use, and co-occuring issues.

We provide compassionate, expert care, meeting men and women 18+, wherever they may be in their recovery process from addiction. Our intimate setting allows us to provide tailored, focused treatment with individual, small group, and family-inclusive treatment. Our goal is to work with our residents to teach them the skills needed for sustaining long-term recovery.