Milestones Mental Health Agency

General information

Our services include: Assessment, treatment planning, family and individual counseling, skills training, 24/7 mobile crisis services, parent education, medication management, as well as ongoing collaboration with schools and other involved agencies and referral assistance.

We also provide counseling to the caretakers raising our clients who are struggling with their own issues of childhood trauma, mental disorders and/or current life stressors. We can provide services on evenings and weekends, if needed.

Our counseling services are provided in the homes and schools to better meet the needs of our clients, and to provide services in settings that are most comfortable and therapeutic.

The founder and director, Stacey Griffin, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who graduated from the Tulane School of Social Work in 1995. Ms. Griffin has been working in the field with families since 1994 with organizations such as Crescent House Battered Women's Shelter, Child Protective Services and Odyssey House Family Center. Her mother was a public school teacher in New Orleans, and her father a NOPD Police Officer. She recalls from an early age hearing her parents discuss the poor education, crime, mental illness and poverty in our community , and the need for more people to get involved to promote change.

The clinical staff consists of twenty Masters level mental health professionals (licensed and non-licensed counselors and social workers, as well as a contract Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists).

We are state licensed, CARF accredited, and also a member of the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership. Milestones currently provide services to appr. 250 families in over 150 schools in Orleans/Jefferson Parish.