About McClendon Center
For more than 45 years, McClendon Center has provided critical programs and services to those most vulnerable in our community, supporting and empowering them to live more independently and improve their quality of life.
We employ a whole-person-centered approach and provide comprehensive, wraparound services that address primary care needs, as well as a host of social issues, including housing and food insecurity, access to quality health care, and stigma, prejudice, and lack of social interaction.
These include counseling, community support, housing assistance, art and movement therapy groups, and substance use counseling.
We work with each client to help them achieve their highest degree of recovery and independence.
About Our Clients
At McClendon Center, our staff members strive to build mutual partnerships with clients and encourage them to take charge of their own recovery.
In any given year, we support thousands of individuals who come to us for help when they need it most, many of whom represent our most disenfranchised community members.
Many of the people we serve stay with us for years. More than a third (34.7%) have been part of McClendon Center for six years or more, and 16% for a decade or longer.
Recovery looks different for everyone, so most clients draw on more than one kind of support at the same time.
Nearly 91% of our clients are African American, ages range from 19 to 96 (33% are 55 or older), and 28% are homeless or staying in shelters.
All of our clients are diagnosed with mental illness — depressive disorders comprise the #1 diagnosis (39%) followed by schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorders (25%), and bipolar disorders (17%).
