Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD)

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (Georgia)Service

Call or text 988 for crisis help with mental health, substance use, or developmental disability problems. It can also connect you to outpatient providers.

Addiction Recovery Support CentersProgram

Peer-led community programs that give non-clinical support and activities to people and families recovering from substance use. DBHDD has an online map to find them.

Behavioral Health Crisis CentersProgram

Behavioral Health Crisis Centers are one of two kinds of places Georgia names as emergency drop-off centers for a behavioral health crisis. The crisis line sends you to one with space.

Constituent ServicesService

DBHDD's Office of Constituent Services answers questions, takes complaints and compliments, and helps people reach DBHDD services. You can call, submit an online request, or mail or fax a form.

Crisis Intervention Team training (CIT-CRIT)Service

A 40-hour crisis response training for law enforcement, corrections, probation, fire and EMS, co-responder teams, and 911 call takers. It is offered at no cost.

Crisis Stabilization Units (CSUs)Program

Crisis Stabilization Units are the other kind of emergency drop-off center Georgia names for behavioral health crises. The state crisis line sends you to one with space.

Deaf ServicesService

DBHDD's deaf services help people who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind get ASL interpreters and accommodations. DBHDD also pays for a residential substance use treatment program staffed by ASL-fluent people.

Developmental disability servicesProgram

DBHDD supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through waiver services called NOW and COMP. People apply through a regional field office or a paper form. Those who apply go on a planning list, and a needs assessment decides who moves into services.