By Melanie Dallas, LPC [This guest opinion article and Highland Rivers year in review is by Melanie Dallas, the CEO of Highland Rivers Behavioral Health which serves Cobb County] As…
Cobb County Community Services Board and Haralson Behavioral Health Services are consolidating and integrating into Highland Rivers Health. Those agencies provide services for people with behavioral health issues, including substance…
By Melanie Dallas, LPC This is a guest opinion by Melanie Dallas, reprinted with permission from the newsletter of the Cobb County Community Services Board. If the coronavirus outbreak is…
By Melanie Dallas, LPC Last spring Highland Rivers Behavioral Health released a report on our services to Veterans over the past decade. Looking back at our records from 2013 to…
By Melanie Dallas, LPC If it seems I’ve written about recovery frequently over the years, it’s because recovery is essential to what we do at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health. Indeed,…
By Melanie Dallas, LPC I wrote most of the article below just over two years ago, following the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. At the time I wrote that many…
by Melanie Dallas, LPC Whenever I have the opportunity to go out and speak about Highland Rivers Behavioral Health services – to a community group, local elected officials, or community…
Photo: Melanie Dallas, LPC, CEO of Highland Rivers Behavioral Health (photo courtesy of Highland Rivers) by Melanie Dallas, LPC If you’ve never met a social worker in person and have…
by Melanie Dallas, LPC Every year during the month of March we recognize National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, and I have taken the opportunity to raise awareness of disabilities and…
by Melanie Dallas, LPC As a human service agency, Highland Rivers Behavioral Health is not a business – we do not sell products, we do not seek to make a…