BestSelf prepares to open crisis center that ‘community has been missing for quite some time’

Brittany Derry has been waiting to open the BestResponse Intensive Crisis Center for three years. Three years of design, planning and then construction. Three years of state paperwork.

The waiting gave Derry and BestSelf Behavioral Health time to collaborate with area agencies to ensure that the crisis center fills a gap and is exactly what it needs to be for the community. But the waiting also was difficult, because Derry, who has worked in the mental health field for a decade, knows the need for this type of center is immediate.