What’s happening with an Ohio county’s $34.1M behavioral health crisis center
A $34.1 million project in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to open a behavioral health crisis center is on uncertain ground. Ongoing funding challenges between local government, the county’s Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board and a nonprofit provider The Centers continue to be barriers to the facility’s on-time completion.
Right now, fundraising for the project sits at $32.3 million, about $1.8 million shy of the total needed to complete it. According to Crain’s Cleveland Business, $6.8 million from the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health via the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) could be lost if the facility does not open on time.
The behavioral health crisis center is still tentatively set to open on Sept. 30, 2026, at the site of the shuttered St. Vincent Charity Medical Office Building, which closed in 2022. The closure has left the region without a psychiatric emergency room or crisis services ever since.
The finished crisis center will cost around $21 million a year to operate. The ADAMHS Board initially committed $10 million per year to support its operations, but at first that hinged on a March 25 vote by the board, which would have reduced that amount out of its own budget interests.
The vacant building was purchased by a behavioral health nonprofit provider — The Centers — which planned to use the location as its new headquarters. Its plans changed after the ADAMHS Board approached about opening a new crisis center instead.
The Centers requested the board still commit to $6 million annually if funding has to be reduced Since then, Axios Cleveland reported an agreement between the two operating partners — The Centers and ADAMHS Board — had been reached. The two entities are still working to find ways to reduce the remaining risk that still hangs in balance for the project with the potential loss of ARPA funding.
A request for comment has not yet been returned.
North Carolina’s Healing Transitions breaks ground on $14M facility
Addiction treatment and recovery nonprofit Healing Transitions broke ground on a major $14 million expansion project earlier this month that will open a 30,000 square-foot facility featuring 16 apartment units and 42 bedrooms for women in addiction recovery and their children.
The new facility will be three stories tall and located on the organization’s present care campus, which first opened in 2006.
Construction on the facility is expected to wrap up by early 2027, according to the Triangle Business Journal.
Healing Transitions was founded in 2001 and has separate campuses for both men and women’s substance use treatment. Its women’s campus first opened as a detox center in 2006. Today, in addition to detox, Healing Transitions provides long-term recovery services, emergency drop-in shelters and family support.
Recover Now opens first Alabama location with $2.2M facility
Birmingham, Alabama-based Recover Now, a mental health, eating disorder and addiction treatment provider with locations in Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, announced March 16 that it plans to open its first facility in its home state this spring.
The new campus marks the provider’s fifth location and will include two buildings on site: a full-service, 25-bed sober living area and a separate partial hospitalization program (PHP) for men.
“We are proud to bring our expertise and supportive environment to Alabama,” Clayton Mobley, co-CEO of Recover Now, stated in a press release. “Our goal is to help men take the next step toward a meaningful, lasting recovery.”
Recover Now is a privately held company that was founded in 2021. It is co-led by CEOs Chris Devine and Mobley.
Behavior Frontiers adds 4 ABA therapy centers in Minnesota, 2 in San Diego
Behavior Frontiers, an El Segundo, California-based applied behavioral analysis (ABA) provider, has added six new locations in March 2026.
The company first announced the addition of two new ABA therapy centers in San Diego County. The City of San Diego location is now open; the second, in the nearby town of Escondido, California, will open near the midpoint of 2026, according to a press release.
Last week, Behavior Frontiers announced the addition of four new locations in the Minneapolis metro. Three of the centers — in Plymouth, Woodbury and Fridley, Minnesota — are now open. The fourth location in Rogers, Minnesota, is set to open in mid-March.
“Minnesota has been an important part of our journey for many years, and we are proud to continue growing alongside the communities we serve,” Helen Mader, CEO of Behavior Frontiers, said in the release. “Opening additional centers allows us to support more families with individualized, evidence-based ABA therapy while maintaining the consistency, integrity, and clinical quality they rely on.”
The company now has eight locations across Minnesota. All are accepting new patients.
Nationwide, Behavior Frontiers operates centers in twelve states: California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
The Emily Program launches PHP, trauma-focused eating disorder program in Ohio
The Emily Program, a specialty provider of eating disorder treatment that operates in six states, has launched a new partial hospitalization program (PHP) in Columbus, Ohio.
The program is specifically for adults with complex trauma histories and co-occurring eating disorders. The need grew from the organization’s recognition of the interconnectedness between individual trauma experiences and eating disorder diagnoses.
“Given the high co-occurrence of eating disorders and trauma, the launch of this program was a natural and clinically important step in our mission to improve access to care,” Marianne Mullan, the clinical director of The Emily Program in Columbus, said in a press release. “We are proud to bring this level of integrated, evidence-based care to Columbus to better support individuals whose recovery requires addressing both conditions together.”
The program will accept patients starting on March 30. It will incorporate personalized cognitive processing therapy, group therapy and individual nutrition, medical and psychiatric services into treatment.
Dana Point, California-based Alter Behavioral Health has added San Diego to its growing portfolio of southern California treatment locations.
The mental health and addiction treatment provider announced this month that it opened a 32-bed residential mental health facility that will serve as a hub for personalized therapy, medication management and wellness.
“This expansion allows us to bring our evidence-based residential programs closer to the San Diego community,” Michael Castanon, CEO for Alter Behavioral Health, said in a press release. “We are committed to supporting long-term recovery and providing a safe, structured environment where individuals can regain stability and improve quality of life.”
Alter Behavioral Health has other inpatient treatment locations in Irvine, Dana Point, Laguna Beach, and San Juan Capistrano, California.
Alter Behavioral Health is a privately held company that was founded in 2019 by Michael Castanon, its current CEO. Castanon previously founded crisis hotline BeWellLine (now BeWellOC) and the virtual mental health platform Mindfuli.