Mental Health Resources: Local Resources

If you or someone you know is in a behavioral health crisis, call the Metropolitan Crisis Response Team at (504) 826-2675. This team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week in Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard Parishes.

VIA LINK provides crisis and suicide counseling and connects people to community resources that help them to resolve life's biggest challenges. Our call center counselors are available 24 hours a day to provide crisis counseling and information and referral to programs to help with needs such as food, shelter, medical care, financial assistants, counseling programs, substance abuse treatment, childcare, etc. Our counselors are ready to assist you.

The Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) ensures care and support to improve quality of life for people with mental illness and addictive disorders.