Resources in Tippecanoe County
If you or someone you know needs support, these campus and community resources are available. All links open in new tabs.
If you know of more resources in the community you think we should include, please let us know at bsan@purdue.edu and we will get it added!
NAMI
NAMI of Lafayette, 1508 Tippecanoe St., Room 1-902, Lafayette IN 47904. Offers support groups for adults living with serious mental illness and their family members. Check with NAMI to confirm the following times before attending: NAMI Connection: for adults living with serious mental illness.
Mental Health America Wabash Valley Region
Maintains a Human Services Directory that lists local providers. Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists Offers a Find a therapist service that is searchable by zip code. Connect2Help211 www.Connect2Help.org An Indianapolis-based agency that facilitates connections between people who need human services and those who provide them: 317-926-4357 or 2-1-1.
Mental Health Services Navigator
Offered through Mental Health America Wabash Valley Region, the free Mental Health Navigator Services program connects individuals and families seeking mental health and/or substance use services with appropriate mental health professionals and supportive services.
In Patient: Sycamore Springs Services
Sycamore Springs, 833 Park East Blvd., Lafayette, IN 47905 765-441-3190 (phone staffed 24/7) Located in Lafayette, Sycamore Springs offers integrated treatment programs for mental health issues and addiction. Along with inpatient services, the facility offers outpatient services as well.
CAPS
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) offers same-day/next-day services for any student seeking care with no predefined session limits and most services are free. Treatment services are brief and based on need. CAPS offers 24/7 access to crisis services by calling their main line at (765) 494-6995.
Valley Oaks Health
Valley Oaks Health provides community-based mental health, addiction recovery, and primary medical care services across central Indiana.
Lighthouse Sober Home
Lighthouse Recovery Home Indiana is for those who are committed to making permanent changes in their lives, but are still building their recovery foundation. Transitional housing is often a very crucial part of long-term recovery success.
Recovery Cafe
Whether it be substance use, trauma/grief, mental illness, homelessness, or incarceration, Our building is a place where everyone can come together regardless of individual recovery challenges. Experience radical hospitality and complete acceptance of exactly who you are, at exactly where you are. There is no 'one size fits all' answer to healing and growth. Here you can expect to experience a peer-based community of healing.
A Better Life-Brianna's Hope
A peer-led recovery support organization offering free, community-based meetings across Indiana and Ohio (often with a meal and guest speakers) to connect individuals and families with encouragement, accountability, and pathways to treatment.
Gateway to Hope - Syringe Services Program
STI testing, Peer support, resource coordination
Overdose Lifeline
Overdose Lifeline is an Indiana-based nonprofit that expands access to naloxone and overdose prevention education, offers evidence-based SUD training programs, and helps people find naloxone through maps and distribution sites.
YWCA
YWCA Greater Lafayette provides direct services, empowerment programming, and advocacy to support marginalized individuals and families, especially women and girls of color, while working to challenge structural barriers to equity.
Lafayette Transitional Housing
LTHC Homeless Services (formerly Lafayette Transitional Housing Center) is the coordinated point of entry and initial assessment for anyone experiencing homelessness or a housing crisis in Tippecanoe County.
Lafayette Family Shelter
Greater Lafayette’s only Emergency Shelter that keeps parents and children under one roof while they rebuild their lives.
LUM
Lafayette Urban Ministries programs and services for individuals who are unhoused and experiencing homelessness
Food Finders Food Bank
Food Finders Resource Coordination offers free, one-on-one support to connect neighbors with wraparound services and benefits like housing, transportation, healthcare, and SNAP/Medicaid.
Grow Local Urban Gardens Network
GrowLocal Lafayette is a community network of gardeners building and maintaining free food-sharing urban gardens in Lafayette to improve food security, provide food education, and strengthen neighborhoods.
Crossroads Student Outreach Clinic
Crossroads Student Outreach Clinic provides free monthly preventative healthcare appointments for uninsured community members in Lafayette through IU School of Medicine and IU Health.
Bravely Women's Health
Bravely Women’s Health offers free and affordable, confidential women’s health and pregnancy support services in Lafayette, including pregnancy testing, limited ultrasounds, STI testing/treatment, and tangible needs assistance.
CommUNITY Pregnancy Support
CommUNITY Pregnancy Support Program is a free monthly group for expectant families in Lafayette offering food, baby supplies, education, and connection to local resources (hosted at Bauer Family Resources).
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Lafayette Health Center offers in-person and telehealth sexual and reproductive healthcare services in Lafayette, including quick appointments, walk-ins, and care without insurance.