Advantage Behavioral Health Systems

Advantage Behavioral Health Systems is the community service board for north-east Georgia and the safety-net provider for ten counties — Clarke, Barrow, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton — with this site in Elberton. It provides residential and outpatient treatment for mental illness, substance use and intellectual and developmental disabilities, and explicitly serves uninsured and underinsured people with severe and persistent mental illness, substance use disorder or IDD. Its residential program, Advantage Classic City Recovery, takes men and women aged 18 and over, prioritizing pregnant women and people who inject drugs. The agency is CARF-accredited, its services are accessible in 170 languages, and it is moving to a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model. Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance and state funding are accepted.