Region Ten Community Services Board in Charlottesville is expanding its behavioral health and crisis response services with the opening of two new facilities. The organization held an open house on April 1 to showcase its new administrative building on Avon Street and a new crisis center located on Old Lynchburg Road.
The move to Avon Street is designed to create more space for services at other locations while improving visibility and accessibility in the downtown area. The new crisis center focuses on assessment and short-term support, aimed at helping people stabilize and connect with ongoing care. According to Lisa Beitz, executive director of Region Ten, the expanded crisis services continuum is designed to provide a number of different services that allow the organization to keep people in the community, provide support, de-escalate crises, and connect to community-based services.
The goal of the expanded services is to provide more immediate support during mental health crises while keeping people connected to care within the community rather than relying on emergency department or law enforcement responses.
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