
New crisis center serves more than 175 in first month on Niagara Street
The BestResponse Intensive Crisis Stabilization Center provides 24-hour care for adults and children facing mental health crises.
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New York State Announces Opening of $9.6 Million Intensive Crisis Stabilization Center in Buffalo
BestSelf Behavioral Health Opens 24/7 Facility Providing Stabilization Services for New Yorkers Experiencing a Behavioral Health Crisis
Western New York’s First Intensive Crisis Stabilization Center to Provide Alternative to Unnecessary Emergency Room Visits
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Game-changing crisis center to open its doors in Buffalo
A long-awaited facility to serve children, adolescents and adults experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis will open at 9 a.m. Thursday in Buffalo.
The opening of the BestResponse Intensive Crisis Stabilization Center, at 430 Niagara St., took more than three years to come to fruition. Local leaders hope it will be a game-changer for those in Western New York facing a crisis, but who previously had few options to seek the right level of help.
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BestSelf Opens Western New York’s First 24-Hour Intensive Crisis Stabilization Center
BestSelf Behavioral Health today announced the opening of the BestResponse Intensive Crisis Stabilization Center, a first-of-its-kind, 24/7 facility in Western New York designed to support people of all ages experiencing mental health and substance use crises. Located at 430 Niagara Street in Buffalo, the center will begin accepting clients tomorrow, Thursday, January 22, and will serve residents across all five counties of Western New York.
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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.
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