A much-debated new mental health crisis center will open in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood in mid-September, while a longstanding one will shut down as a result.
To pay for The Centers’ new Glick Recovery Campus, county agencies had to diver funding from existing mental health facilities. That included a 15-bed crisis stabilization unit run by FrontLine Service near West 85th Street and Detroit Avenue.
That longstanding facility will close at the end of August. The services provided there — psychiatric beds where residents can stay for days at a time — will transition to the second floor of the new Glick Recovery campus.
The new campus will provide services that the other crisis unit didn’t. It will accept walk-ins and patients who need to be held involuntarily for mental health reasons. In addition to psychiatric beds, it will have 20 shorter-term “chairs” where patients can immediately get medication and mental health treatment. And the top floor will have a community health clinic. The facility is located at 2322 E. 22nd Street. The official opening date is set as Sept. 14 and a ribbon cutting is scheduled fro Aug. 20. (Register here.)
As far back as last year, staff at FrontLine had been dreading the potential closure of the smaller crisis unit on the near West Side, saying there was enough demand for both facilities. They described it as a community fixture that residents, particularly those facing chronic homelessness, relied on when necessary.
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