Ensuring individuals have access to mental healthcare can improve lives and communities. In response to our our annual Community Needs Assessment showed a growing number of individuals who require access to mental health resources but could not afford them.

Thanks to a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant COVID-19 (CDBG-CV), UWHC is working with The Center for Counseling and Wellness and Coastal Samaritan Counseling Center to provide free, consistent, on-site, out-patient, mental health, and substance use disorder counseling services to the homeless, uninsured, underinsured, low to moderate-income, and rural population of Horry County.

The locations for counseling services will be provided to clients of the following organizations: Coastal High School, Friendship Medical Clinic, J. Reuben Long Men’s Detention Center and Women’s Detention Center, New Directions Men’s Shelter and Women’s Shelter, North Strand Housing Shelter, The Center for Counseling and Wellness offices in Conway, Loris, and North Myrtle Beach and Coastal Samaritan Counseling Center office in Myrtle Beach.

If you need counseling services through Breaking Barriers and are not a client of the organizations above, please contact Coastal Samaritan Counseling Center if you are located in Myrtle Beach at 843-448-4820 or if you are located anywhere else in Horry County, contact The Center for Counseling & Wellness at 843-663-0770. For more resources on counseling and mental health services, call 2-1-1 or find 211 resources online. 

Breaking Barriers is supported by funding through CDBG Horry County and The Duke Endowment through a grant secured by Conway Medical Center.

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