The Free Mental Health Clinic is a student-run biweekly clinic which seeks to bridge gaps in existing local mental health care. We aim to provide earlier and easier access to care and prevent the escalation of treatable symptoms into emergent problems.
Populations on which we focus include:
- Local people with mental health needs and limited resources who otherwise may wait months for existing services
- People with identified mental health needs who are in the area for too short a period of time to be effectively worked into existing services
Referral sources include:
- Shelter House
- UIHC Department of Psychiatry
- Free Medical Clinic
- Domestic Violence Intervention Project
- Crisis Center
- Johnson County jail
- Mobile Clinic
The clinic occurs every other Saturday morning and is housed at Community Mental Health Center. Volunteer medical, social work, undergraduate, and pharmacy students are actively involved in patient care. Each clinic is overseen by a volunteer faculty psychiatrist from the University, and Judith Crossett, MD, serves as its Medical Director. We provide diagnostic and follow-up care for patients including medical management of common psychiatric disorders with free sample medications and/or prescriptions for inexpensive drugs. After considerable planning with the University Department of Psychiatry, the Community Mental Health Center, the local homeless shelter and other important constituencies, we are proud to say that the clinic has been running successfully since October and is closing gaps in local psychiatric care one patient at a time.
For current clinic dates, email the clinic or contact:
Leah Maxwell
Amy Halt
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