For the past 50 years the Guidance/Care Center, Inc. (GCC) has a Comprehensive, Integrated Community Behavioral Health is the centralized receiving facility of all behavioral health services in Monroe County including the full continuum of care which includes crisis support, outreach, prevention, mobile crisis response, psychiatric, intervention, individual, group & family therapy, psychosocial. GCC has the only detoxification center and the only Assisted Living Facility for those with mental illness in Monroe County.  In addition, the mental center.  GCC also provides services at the adult detention center as the Jail In-House Program is residential substance abuse treatment for inmates who are eligible for the program while serving their sentence.  GCC has 14 programs accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) since 2003.

Special Placement Information:

The Agency is accepting BSW Full-time, MSW 1st year students, MSW 2nd year and Advanced Standing Clinical Students, Part-time BSW, Part-time MSW.  Most individuals are placed in Marathon, Florida, and sometimes in Key West.  Must have local housing.  Flexible schedule.  Marathon is a 24-hour facility.