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Contact information for mental health help

Posted: Sunday, Mar. 10, 2013

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• Call 911, especially if someone is about to harm themselves or someone else.

• To figure out how to get help from Mecklenburg County’s mental health network, call MeckLINK: 704-336-6404 (toll-free outside the county 877-700-3001), or go to mecklink.charmeck.org.

A consumer handbook is also on the site.

• To have a trained mental health professional come to you, call CriSyS, Mecklenburg County’s mobile crisis team: 704-566-3410 (Select Option 1).

• To talk with a counselor at CMC-Randolph’s call center: 704-444-2400.

• Support groups: Mental Health Association of Central Carolinas, 704-365-3454, mhacentralcarolinas.org; National Alliance on Mental Illness – Charlotte: 704–333–8218, nami-charlotte.org.

• At UNC Charlotte: NAMI on Campus. 704-641-9357; NAMIatUNCC@gmail.com.; Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/namiuncc/.

Compiled by Michael Gordon, mgordon@charlotteobserver.com

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