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hristian Appalachian Project’s (CAP) Family Life Counseling Program steps in every day to meet the needs of our participant families. They ensure that highquality counseling is available to children and adults dealing with mental health issues in Appalachia.
“I was pleased to inform him that we would never turn away someone due to their inability to pay,” Griffith said. “His treatment was successful, and I still see him occasionally some 22 years later, living a well-adjusted life. I’m proud to have been a servant of the greater good in his life.”
Chris Griffith, manager of CAP’s Family Life Counseling Program, knows that the seeds planted by his staff can continue to bloom long after clients are no longer being seen. He remembers one of his first participants who told him that although he didn’t have the money for treatment, he desperately needed help.
CAP’s counseling program now has three locations to treat patients as well as limited services at the Pike County Child Protective Services office. This includes CAP’s headquarters facility in Paintsville, Mount Vernon, and a new site at the Foley Mission Center in Martin, Kentucky. The new location partners with a nearby women’s shelter where domestic violence
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victimization and related substance misuse issues are common. “My counseling work primarily involves services to adults and some adolescents,” said Terrie Harris, who leads a group of parents involved with Child Protective Services. Parents in the group often have multiple issues that they need help working through. Often that includes anxiety, trauma, depression, and relationship issues between parents and their children, their partners, or their family. “Parents are the linchpins of the family system. It is important that we recognize that and seek to impact those dynamics,” she added.
