Resources
If you need help now
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988. Twenty-four hours.
Northeastern Center
Twenty-four hours. The community mental health center for LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb counties, with an office in LaGrange.
Indiana 211
Call 866-211-9966, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. The website is always available.
Referral to services across the state, including food, housing, utilities and health care.
Northeastern Center publishes its own fee policy at nec.org.
If somebody is in immediate danger, call 911.
This page does not keep a directory of services. The county maintains one, it is kept current, and it is linked below. What is on this page directly are the numbers somebody might need before they finish reading a sentence.
Where the county keeps its list
The county's Probation department maintains a directory of about fifty organisations serving LaGrange County, in nineteen categories: food, housing, financial assistance, legal help, rehabilitation, mental health, senior services, transport, veterans' services, youth programmes and more. It is kept current and it carries far more than this page ever would.
LaGrange County community resources
Organisations can be added to that list by emailing the county at lagrangeresources@gmail.com.
The Gazette keeps one directory of its own, of churches in the county, and a page on where the county's official information lives.
Services in this county
Three organisations in this county provide services directly, and each keeps its own site.
- Haven of Hope
Domestic and teen dating violence services, north of LaGrange on State Road 9. Formerly Elijah Haven.
- LaGrange County Council on Aging
Services for older adults, and the operator of LCAT, the county's public transit.
- The Arc of LaGrange County
Serving people with disabilities in this county since 1966, with a thrift store in Shipshewana.
All three are also on the county's list, along with about fifty others.
Libraries, towns, fire departments and the county's other organisations are on the community page.
County government
- LaGrange County official website lagrangecounty.org
Departments, offices, meeting notices and county services.
- Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership the county's profile
Demographics, employers and economic data for the county.
What this page does not hold
No listing here is paid for and none ever will be. Nothing on this page is an endorsement, and nothing was left off because somebody did not ask.
This page holds three phone numbers and three links. Everything else that exists in this county is on the county's own list, kept by people whose job it is to keep it. If something is missing from that list, the county's email is above and they will add it.