Region Seven Mental Health Intellectual Disabilities Commission

Region Seven Mental Health Intellectual Disabilities Commission, doing business as Community Counseling Services, is a tax-exempt nonprofit based in West Point, Mississippi, that operates as a federal grant recipient focused on community mental health services, assisted outpatient treatment, and housing support for vulnerable populations in rural northeast Mississippi. The organization holds no prime federal contracts; all federal activity derives from grant awards where it acts as both prime recipient (34% of recent awards) and sub-recipient (66%), with the grant footprint concentrated in behavioral health and homelessness prevention programming.

Community Counseling Services serves two primary federal grantor agencies accounting for 56% of recent awards: the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, with additional sub-recipient work flowing through the Mississippi Department of Mental Health and state housing corporations. As a prime grant recipient, the organization has received $1.499 million from SAMHSA under the Assisted Outpatient Treatment program (CFDA 93.997) through September 2031 to operate a court-ordered, community-based treatment program serving 75–80 adults annually with serious mental illness in Oktibbeha County and surrounding counties, delivering psychiatric services, medication management, therapy, case management, and peer support using trauma-informed and evidence-based practices including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. HUD Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) prime awards total approximately $836 thousand across multiple fiscal years (2022–2026) for permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and homeless management information systems. The organization also operates as a prime recipient on a SAMHSA Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances grant (the Golden Triangle Region System of Care) running through September 2027, serving children, youth, and young adults birth to age 21 across seven rural medically underserved counties in northeast Mississippi with trauma-informed, culturally responsive evidence-based mental health services and related recovery support.

As a sub-recipient, Community Counseling Services receives pass-through funding from the Mississippi Department of Mental Health for adult mental health services, substance use disorder treatment, intensive community support services, youth detention center behavioral health services, and substance-abuse prevention programming. The organization also receives sub-awards from HUD's Emergency Solutions Grants program (ESG and ESG-CV, the latter funded through the CARES Act) and HUD HOME American Rescue Plan funding for emergency shelter, rapid rehousing, homelessness prevention, and temporary housing. Recent activity has accelerated — one award in 2022 to ten awards in 2026 — with only two awards facing ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure. Combined federal dollars obligated across all prime and sub awards total $19.4 million across 32 awards, with the most recent prime award dated September 30, 2026.