Virginia's network of free and charitable clinics provide an important safety net of holistic health care services to many underserved populations across the Commonwealth who lack health insurance or who are underinsured. As a VTMHI partner, we are pleased to serve as the critical link between patients and providers in this important work to combat the rising need in behavioral health, helping our free and charitable clinics deliver the kind of mental health services that can change people's lives. VTHMI provides services virtually through a telehealth arrangement to enrolled patients at participating free and charitable clinics and patients are responding positively:

A patient at Guadalupe Free Clinic expressed gratitude for her therapist, noting her therapist is “the only person she can talk to” about her cancer treatment and poor prognosis.

A Ledwith-Lewis Free Clinic patient expressed feeling much better with a major decrease in depressive symptoms. The referring clinic staff reported he appears “lighter,” and they can see his depression lifting.

The program not only benefits patients in need today, but also sets up a broader provider base that is lacking in Virginia. Providers are pre-licensed volunteers who have completed their graduate level courses and are in the process of completing their clinic licensure requirements. Through this process, these volunteers will be earning supervised clinical hours as well as free training. 

Since launching in January of 2023, the program now works with the following clinics: 

• 10-7 Farms (Bowling Green)
• ADAMS Compassionate Healthcare Network (Chantilly)
• Arlington Free Clinic
• Augusta Regional Dental Clinic (Fishersville)
• Blue Ridge Free Clinic (Harrisonburg)
• Bradley Free Clinic (Roanoke) 
• Brock Hughes Medical Center (Wytheville) 
• Charlottesville Free Clinic 
• Chesapeake Care Clinic
• CrossOver Healthcare Ministry (Richmond)
• Culmore Clinic (Falls Church)
• Fauquier Free Clinic (Warrenton)
• Free Clinic of Central Virginia (Lynchburg)
• Free Clinic of Culpeper
• Free Clinic of Franklin County (Rocky Mount)
• Free Clinic of Powhatan  
• GoochlandCares
• Greene Care Clinic (Stanardsville)
• Guadalupe Free Clinic (Colonial Beach)
• Health Brigade (Richmond) 
• Health Wagon (Wise)
• Lackey Clinic (Yorktown)
• Ledwith-Lewis Free Clinic (Tappahannock)
• Madison Free Clinic
• Mother of Mercy Medical Clinic (Woodbridge)
• Ohlen R. Wilson Health Center (Galax)
• OLD Community Care Clinic (Virginia Beach)
• Page Free Clinic (Luray)
• Shenandoah Community Health Clinic (Woodstock)
• Sinclair Heath Clinic (Winchester)