Mount Rogers Offers Youth Mental Health, Counseling, and Behavioral Health Services

Focused on Youth Health Services

Services for mental health, counseling, and behavioral health the youth and families in our communities is one of the primary services of Mount Rogers Community Services.

Last year, Mount Rogers Community Services served 2,700 children between the ages of newborn to 21. They were among the 9,651 people we served last year.

List of Youth Health Services

The Mount Rogers services for youth and families include:

• Counseling for youth or families to address emotional, behavioral, and substance use concerns.
• Case management to monitor, link, and advocate for youth psychiatric, medical, social, educational, and vocational needs.
• Psychiatry for medication assessment and management.
• Mentoring as a way for role models to work with youth to build self-confidence and self-worth.
• Parent education as a home-based education and support that caregivers need to safely and effectively raise their children.
• Behavior therapy supports individuals and their caregivers by providing a compassionate, function-based approach to replacing severe, challenging behavior with communication, tolerance, and contextually appropriate skills. We offer this service for individuals with autism and behavior-related diagnoses up to age 21 in center-based, office-based and home-based settings including, but not limited to, those diagnosed with autism.
• Positive Alternatives to Hospitalization (PATH CSU) to prevent hospitalization of youth in crisis by offering residential crisis services.
• Mental health skill-building to support youth or their caregivers in managing mental health so they can live independently.
• Intensive in-home counseling with the goal of making sure youth aren’t placed outside of the home.
• A mobile crisis team to treat children in crisis anywhere in our communities.

Early Intervention Services

Mount Rogers also offers Early Intervention services to children who are age birth to three years old. These children:

• Are developmentally delayed.
• Are developing atypically.
• Or have a diagnosed condition.

Our services take place in the home or the child’s natural environment.

We work with families and caregivers to teach them how to help their child. We also help them find resources in the community.

For more information, call us at 276-783-9349 x 2304. Or email: adele.rohner@mountrogers.org.

You can learn more about early intervention at the Infant & Toddler Connection of Virginia website.

Enrolling in Youth Health Services

To enroll in services, you can visit Mount Rogers for same-day access on weekdays at all counseling centers. The best times to visit are 8:30-10:30 a.m.

If an intake is needed in the afternoon or evening, please call to schedule a meeting.

Intakes may take up to two hours. If you have private insurance, please call them to see if we are an approved provider.

We have locations in:

• Wythe & Bland counties at 540 W. Main St. in Wytheville. Call 276-223-3291.
• Carroll County and Galax at 6999 Carrolton Pike in Galax. Call 276-238-5600.
• Smyth County at 121 Broad St. in Marion. Call 276-781-5900.
• Grayson County at 108 Bedwell St. in Independence. Call 276-773-3515
• Mobile Crisis (seven days a week) from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Call 276-228-2905.

About Mount Rogers: We are a top provider of community services for mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and substance use disorders in southwest Virginia. Mount Rogers also offers geriatric, counseling, early intervention, and other services in Wythe, Smyth, Carroll, Bland, and Grayson counties and the city of Galax.