Community Services &
Mental Health

THRIVE’s Lowville Commons provides comprehensive mental health services to individuals who have mental health concerns, behavior problems, emotional distress, and co-occurring disorders. The Lowville Commons is a New York State Office of Mental Health, Licensed Outpatient Clinic. THRIVE maintains strong linkages with all community-based services including but not limited to Dept. of Social Services, substance use services, transportation, vocational training programs, and other community-based providers. They have satellite clinics in South Lewis, Copenhagen and Lowville schools.

Offers mental health services to children, adolescents and adults in Northern New York.

• Accepting Medicaid, Medicare, and most private insurances
• Individual, family and group therapy, as well as medication management services.
• Discounted rates and sliding scale fees for self-paying clients

Behavioral health services at Samaritan includes outpatient psychiatry, intensive outpatient addiction services, alcohol and substance abuse treatment, and traditional outpatient addiction services. In addition, they also have a 32-bed inpatient mental health unit within the main hospital, and their emergency department has a dedicated mental health area to care for people in emergency situations.

Offers 24-hour, walk-in access to mental health and addiction treatments such as

• Mental health & addiction counseling
• Co-occurring conditions
• Outpatient detoxification
• Individualized treatment and recovery planning
• Voluntary respite stays
• Case management
• Care coordination
• Therapy groups
• Peer-run groups

Outpatient Psychotherapy

• Individual therapy for adults and children
• Couples and marital therapy
• Family therapy
• Group therapy

Psychological Testing

• Mental health diagnosis
• ADHD
• Learning disorders
• Intellectual disability
• Committee on special education
• Pre-surgery psychological evaluation
• Law enforcement personal testing
• Forensic evaluations
• Child custody evaluations
• Parental capacity evaluations
• Child abuse validations

Carthage Area Behavioral Health Center was created to assist patients with a variety of mental health and emotional challenges. Our diverse selection of services extends to children, adolescents, and adults and includes the following:

• Initial assessment and diagnosis
• Treatment planning
• Verbal therapy
• Medication therapy
• Clinical support
• Health education
• Walk-in intakes
• Referrals

The North Country Mobile Integration Team (MIT) is designed to provide the clinical intervention and support necessary for adults with serious mental illness and youth with serious emotional disturbances to not only remain in the community, but also continue moving forward on their recovery journey. The underlying principles of every MIT service is that individuals do recover, individuals and families are resilient, and there is hope for your future.

The North Country MIT is a multidisciplinary team, including peers, dedicated to partnering with people with mental illnesses and their families to keep them healthy while living in their communities. The team will bring services to the individual and their family.