COPE is the Chautauqua Offices of Psychotherapy and Evaluation, Inc., a private, not-for-profit community mental health center in Walton County.  The Center offers a comprehensive array of quality mental health and substance abuse treatment services, including outpatient counseling,  adult residential services, prevention education, psychiatric treatment, crisis counseling, case management, screening and referral, and wellness programming for all ages.

Beginning in 1973 as the Walton County Guidance Clinic, with one program and a staff of two, COPE now serves more than 4,000 clients annually through 20 programs, and employs more than 100 professional and support personnel.

Much of COPE's daily activity involves counseling normal people with normal problems - in their marriages, with their children, at their jobs, and other situations which may cause stress or depression.  Individual, group, or family therapy may be recommended depending upon the nature of the problem.  Treatment helps many normal people understand their problems more fully and lead happier, more satisfying lives.