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Advantage Behavioral Health Systems (ABHS) is the largest provider of mental health, developmental disability and addictive disease services for Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, and Walton counties. Advantage accepts all patients regardless of ability to pay, making us the premier agency for the underserved in northeast Georgia. About our services
Advantage serves nearly 10,000 clients each year. This includes:
- Adults with mental health or substance abuse disorders
- Children & adolescents, age 3 to 18
- Homeless individuals; single women with children
- People with dual diagnosis (mental health and substance abuse disorders)
- People with developmental disabilities
Communities often do not realize the economic impact of community-based behavioral health services like those provided by Advantage. Major mental disorders alone are estimated to affect 1 in 17 people in the United States and cost $193 billion in lost earnings.
Every day, Advantage keeps vulnerable people out of mental hospitals and prisons. By doing this, Advantage provides a major savings to all residents of northeast Georgia.
About Our Development Program
Advantage is pursuing multiple opportunities to continue to diversify its funding. We are pursuing more public and private grants through our newly-established Grant Office. We are also steadily building a program of individual and business donations in collaboration with our supporting organization, Friends of Advantage. For more information on the impact of our growing development program, see what we are doing in our Current Campaigns! Contact Information
If you would like to support Advantage's mission, please contact: Michael Hammer
Development Officer
250 North Avenue
Athens, GA 30601
(706) 542-9700 x1111
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