Resources
Crisis numbers first. Everything else after that.
A working directory of crisis lines, Pike County services, and plain-language guides. Free, no email required, nothing gated.
If you need help right now
These lines are free, confidential, and answered 24/7.
If you or someone else is in immediate physical danger, call 911. Otherwise, start here — you do not need to be suicidal to call 988.
Call or text 988 · 24/7, free, confidential
Text HOME to 741741 · 24/7
1-800-799-7233 · Text START to 88788
1-800-656-4673 · 24/7
Dial 988, then press 1
Statewide crisis and services directory
Pike County, Alabama
Local services, verified by hand.
Small-town directories go stale fast. Volunteers call these quarterly to confirm hours, eligibility, and cost — if you find something wrong here, tell us and we will fix it.
Pike County Department of Human Resources
Child welfare, food assistance, kinship care support — Pike County, Alabama
East Central Mental Health - Pike County
Community mental health center serving southeast Alabama
Troy Regional Medical Center
Emergency care, behavioral health referrals
Alabama 2-1-1
Dial 211 for local food, housing, utility, and childcare assistance
Troy University Counseling Center
For enrolled students — free short-term counseling
Legal Services Alabama — Dothan office
Free civil legal help, including custody and guardianship for kinship caregivers
Know something we are missing?
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Guides
Plain-language explainers, written for people in it — not for clinicians.
Six topics, each written as the thing we end up explaining in first sessions over and over.
Anxiety & panic
What anxiety is doing physiologically, grounding techniques that work in the moment, and when it is worth treating clinically.
Depression
Recognizing it in yourself and in someone you love, the difference between a bad stretch and an episode, and what treatment actually involves.
Trauma & PTSD
How trauma stores itself in the body, why avoidance makes sense and still costs you, and what trauma-focused therapy does differently.
Grief & loss
Including the losses nobody holds a funeral for — a parent who is still alive, a marriage, a version of your future.
Kinship & grandparent caregiving
Guardianship basics, school enrollment without custody, benefits you may qualify for, and the emotional part nobody warns you about.
Teen mental health for parents
What is developmentally normal, what is not, how to ask a question that gets answered, and what to do if you are scared.
Podcast & writing
Where we say the longer version.
AAI produces a podcast on mental health, advocacy, and what this work actually looks like in a small Southern town. Episodes, show notes, and written pieces will be published here.
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