Oaklawn to host open house for 24/7 crisis center
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Mental health services provider Oaklawn will host a public open house this month for the first of two new crisis centers in northern Indiana.
The open house is set for Feb. 15 from 4-6 p.m. at the new facility, 420 N. Niles Ave. in the first floor of Beacon Health System’s Memorial Epworth Center in South Bend, according to a news release. Team members will be on site to talk about the services that will be offered at the facility, which is set to open in early March. More details, including hours of operation, will be announced at the open house.
Members of the St. Joseph County mobile crisis team, which now takes calls 12 hours a day and responds on location to those in need of emergency mental health care, are likely to locate within the crisis center and build up to continuous, 24/7 service, Inside INdiana Business reported in October.
Oaklawn plans to open a second crisis center later this year at the health care provider’s 330 Lakeview Drive campus in Goshen, IIB reported.
The crisis center open house follows the opening of a $16.2 million Oaklawn South Bend campus last fall. The three-story, 60,000-square-foot campus at 415 E. Madison St. added 10,000 square feet of space for mental health and addiction treatment services, IIB reported. The new campus is adjacent to its former South Bend location.
Oaklawn, which became the area’s designated community mental health center more than a decade ago, provides services to 25,000 young people and adults from its four campuses in Elkhart, Goshen, South Bend and Mishawaka.