Life Help Community Mental Health Center

01/01/2026

12/31/2025

To Our Communities 💚

Today is New Year’s Eve, a day often filled with celebration. For many across our communities, especially here in the Mississippi Delta, this day comes when recent gun violence has brought fear, grief, and uncertainty.

If you’re feeling afraid, on edge, or overwhelmed, that response is understandable. Violence affects those directly impacted and entire communities.

To those who have lost loved ones, your grief matters. You are not expected to be “ok,” especially right now.

We also want to remind our communities of something important: there are far more people here who care, who want peace, and who want to help than those who want to do harm. Coming together, checking on one another, and staying connected matters, now more than ever.

You may need support if you’re experiencing:
• Ongoing anxiety or fear
• Trouble sleeping or concentrating
• Feeling numb, overwhelmed, or withdrawn
• Increased irritability or substance use
• Any feelings of distress for which you want or need support

Always call if you or someone you know experiences:
• Thoughts about wanting to die or of harming someone else

Help is available.

If you or someone you love needs support, please reach out:
👉 Our contact information for each county office is pinned at the top of the page, and our

24/7 Emergency Hotline is 1-866-453-6216

We are here for you, today, tonight, and into 2026 💚

12/31/2025

Screenshot and tuck away in your *favorites* for that time when a friend or someone you ~sort of know~ at the bar or party tells you they “just can’t do it anymore” and “the world would be better off without them.”

Maybe it’s you having those thoughts. If so, you can text, call, or chat right now or whenever you are ready to talk to someone.

Maybe the rash of fireworks and other loud noises that happen on NYE are triggers for you as a veteran or your veteran spouse or friend.

Perhaps your anxiety is heightened, and you do not have a clear understanding of why.

For all these and any reason you may be in distress, you can call or text 988 or chat with a counselor at 988lifeline.org

It can be scary making that first call, but it’s just a person on the other end of the phone. Nothing scary. Just a person to talk to.

Happy ! If you’re feeling triggered or in need of extra support tonight, you’re not alone and help is available. Help yourself & share to help others: samhsa.gov/find-help

12/30/2025

NYE can be anything you want it to be…or nothing much at all.

Jan. 31 is a day on the calendar we give meaning ~IF~ we choose and ~HOW~ we choose to give meaning.

You decide what is right for you. Let others do the same. Maybe that looks different this year, and that’s ok. Maybe that means people do not understand your decisions, and that’s ok, too.

Be at peace about what is right for you.

May you find peace this year in being aware of your needs and simply being 💚

12/26/2025

This is how we celebrated the holidays at Life Help! We hope you had a joyful holiday with your family, at work, at school, with friends, and, especially, with you!

We continue to wish you a joyful holiday season. Our offices will reopen Monday, December 29, and will close again January 1, 2026, for New Year’s Day.

12/25/2025

12/23/2025

Take care of yourself this holiday season ❄️

Our 24/7 Emergency Hotline is 1-866-453-6216

You can also text or call 988 or chat with a counselor at 988lifeline.org

12/19/2025

Life Help’s 3rd Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Class graduated 13 Law Enforcement Officers today.

Thank you to all LEO graduates for your commitment to safe and effective intervention with those experiencing a mental heath crisis and your enthusiasm all week. We also appreciate the support shown by your departments and local leadership.

We are excited about the new relationships built with you this week! Although we always hope for there to be no need for crisis intervention services, we feel confident in you if and when that call comes 💙💚

12/18/2025

Life Help’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training continues this week as mental health and law enforcement professionals collaborate to build bridges and skills to ensure the safest and best practices when a person is in a mental health crisis.

CIT Trainers share information, insight, and resources and work with Law Enforcement Officers to practice skill-building exercises and simulated scenarios. It is an enriching week of bonding between the worlds of law enforcement and mental health and amongst these professionals from the Mississippi Delta and the surrounding area.

We are incredibly proud of this 3rd CIT Class and the Trainers working with them!

12/16/2025

Life Help Community Mental Health Center kicked off our 3rd Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Academy this week with Law Enforcement officers from across the Mississippi Delta.

We are excited for yet another collaboration between mental health professionals and law enforcement officers to help ensure those in mental health crises in our area get the help they need in a safe and effective manner for them and all involved! 💚💙