SWLA Center for Health Services

09/02/2025

Look for warning signs in people who may be in crisis and encourage individuals in emotional distress to reach out for help.

🔵Threatening to hurt or kill oneself or talking about wanting to hurt or kill oneself
🔵Looking for ways to kill oneself by seeking access to fi****ms, available pills, or other means
🔵Talking or writing about death, dying, or su***de when these actions are out of the ordinary for the person
🔵Feeling hopeless
🔵Feeling rage or uncontrolled anger or seeking revenge
🔵Acting reckless or engaging in risky activities — seemingly without thinking
🔵Feeling trapped — like there's no way out
🔵Increasing alcohol or drug use
🔵Withdrawing from friends, family, and society
🔵Feeling anxious, agitated, or unable to sleep or sleeping all the time
🔵Experiencing dramatic mood changes
🔵Seeing no reason for living or having no sense of purpose in life

📱Call or text: 988
💻Chat online: Louisiana988.org
🕛24/7

🔗https://ldh.la.gov/office-of-behavioral-health/su***de-prevention

08/29/2025

SWLA Center for Health Services will be closed on Monday, September 1, 2025, in observance of Labor Day.

All sites will reopen with normal business hours on Tuesday, September 2nd.

08/27/2025

SWLA Center for Health Services is looking to hire a Community Garden Groundskeeper to maintain our Community Garden.

📍Location: Lake Charles- Prater Street
📝Employment Type: Contract Work

The Community Garden Groundskeeper is responsible for maintaining the SWLA CHS Community Garden, ensuring our garden is clean, safe and visually appealing through various landscaping tasks.

For more information, please contact Sharon Dunbar at sdunbar@swlahealth.org.

08/27/2025

🔔CALCASIEU PARISH MOBILE MARKET IS BACK ON SATURDAY FOR SEPTEMBER!🔔

In partnership with Second Harvest, SWLA Center for Health Services will host the Makin’ Groceries Mobile Market in Calcasieu Parish on Saturday, September 20, 2025.

⏰ Time- 10:00am-12:00pm
📍 Location- Lake Charles College Prep
2801 Power Center Pkwy, Lake Charles, LA 70607

Shop the Mobile Market for fresh produce and healthy foods AT A LOW PRICE!🍎🍋🍌🥑🧄🥔

08/22/2025

🚨ATTENTION SWLA PATIENTS!🚨

SWLA Center for Health Services Lake Charles and Lafayette sites will delay clinic start time on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, for a site meeting.

🟥Lake Charles will delay the start time of clinic to 8:30am.
🟦Lafayette will delay the start time, after lunch, to 1:30pm.

Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.

08/18/2025

👋 Welcome Dr. James Gaharan to SWLA Center for Health Services!

Dr. Gaharan is an American board-certified internal medicine physician; specializing in diagnosing, treating and preventing diseases in adults.

With over 50 years of experience as a doctor and with a background in hematology & medical oncology, Dr. Gaharan is pleased to use his knowledge to look beyond the surface, diagnosing every SWLA CHS patient from the root of their problem.

📍 Dr. Gaharan is accepting new patients at the following location:
~ Michael DeBakey Extension Site- 501 Michael DeBakey Drive Lake Charles, LA 70601

☎️ Call 337-439-9983 to schedule your appointment today!

08/14/2025

Sweat It Out Saturdays ARE IN!💪🏋️‍♀️

SWLA Center for Health Services hosted our 1st Fitness Under the Tent event at the beginning of August; which allowed fitness members to get their workouts in outside, in the fresh air.

From fitness challenge workouts to fitness related giveaways, thank you to our fitness members for joining in on the fun that Saturday morning.

Thank you to Louisiana Healthcare Connections for joining us as a vendor and getting your morning workout in with us as well!

📸Swipe to see how our fitness members GET FIT at SWLA!

08/13/2025

Back to School Our Children Go!📓🖍📚✏️🎨

SWLA Center for Health Services had an amazing month of partnering with organizations to host Back to School events in the communities we serve.

We were so happy to see so many smiling faces while meeting their needs in their communities. We can't wait to see our students thrive, grow and achieve many things this year.

⭐️SWLA Center for Health Services would like to wish students everywhere a fantastic year and remind them to dream big and work hard because success is just around the corner!”

08/13/2025