LGBTQIA+

Valley Healthcare System is a steadfast ally for the LGBTQIA+ community, continuously providing inclusive and comprehensive mental health services that respect the diverse identities and needs of all individuals. With a commitment to fostering a safe and welcoming environment, that offers specialized care, support, and resources to ensure equal access to quality for everyone.

About Us


At Valley we understand while belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community can be a source of strength; it also brings unique challenges. For those who identify as LGBTQIA+, it’s important to recognize how your experience of sexual orientation and gender identity relates to your mental health. Valley HealthCare System provides services to those who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses, addictions, and intellectual or development disabilities.

Serving four counties in North Central West Virginia—Marion, Monongalia, Preston and Taylor—we offer tools, resources, and treatments needed to heal and improve lives.

Mental Health Services

  • Therapy for individuals or families based on what the needs of the client are.

  • Process of working with a psychiatrist to ensure that your psychiatric medications are effective and safe. This may include changing doses, switching medications, or adding new drugs.

  • Provides community-based, multi-disciplinary mental health treatment for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.

  • Day Treatment currently runs from 9a-2p on Monday and Wednesday and provides non-therapeutic services to clients with severe and persistent mental illness who are at high risk of involuntary hospitalization.

Substance Use Disorder

Outpatient Services

  • Addiction Screenings/Assessments

  • Individual Therapy

  • Targeted Case Management

  • Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

  • Suboxone Clinic

  • DUI Safety and Treatment Program

  • Peer Recovery Support Services

Residential Services

  • 80-bed Valley Treatment Center (VTC)

  • ACT Unit for Men

  • New Beginnings for Women

I/DD Services

Intellectual disabilities affect a person’s thinking. Some people call this kind of thinking neurodivergent (processing, thinking, or behaving differently than what is considered typical). Down syndrome, dyslexia/dyscalculia, ADHD, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder are all examples of intellectual disabilities. Like all people with disabilities, with the right support, people with intellectual disabilities can lead full and independent lives.

Valley is able to assist with:

Title XIX Waiver Program

  • Case Management

  • Behavior Support Services

  • Group Home & Individualized Support Settings (ISS)

Children Services

LGBTQIA+ youth also experience greater risk for mental health conditions and suicidality. LGBTQIA+ youth are more than twice as likely to report experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness than their heterosexual peers. Transgender youth face further disparities as they are twice as likely to experience depressive symptoms, seriously consider suicide, and attempt suicide compared to cisgender lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and questioning youth.

Valley offers services such as

  • Individual Therapy

  • Family Therapy

  • Targeted Case Management

  • Children and Families Adolescents with SUD

for children and teens experiencing these mental health symptoms.

Our Partner

We also work closely with Project Rainbow. Click below to learn more about them and their journey.