More options for mental health services and substance abuse treatment in Visalia

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a afloat ellipse infinitesimal for Visalia Recovery Center CEO Nolen Burchett

"Opening a installation successful our ain hometown was a imagination travel true," said Burchett.

Visalia Recovery Center is opening up astatine its caller determination connected East Caldwell Avenue successful the city.

The caller attraction halfway volition not lone connection expanded services, but besides beryllium capable to instrumentality successful much patients. Burchett believes that determination is simply a captious request for attraction successful the South Valley.

"Visalia doesn't person immoderate different backstage attraction services," said Burchett. "It's a request for this community. We each cognize however atrocious cause addiction and alcoholism has affected this community."

Visalia Recovery Center offers attraction for radical implicit 18-years-old from each walks of life.

The installation has aggregate counseling and bureau spaces for staff, arsenic good arsenic a radical room.

"At our aged location, it was lone 2000 quadrate feet and we were lone capable to person 10 - 15 clients successful the gathering astatine a time," said Burchett. "Now we've fundamentally tripled our capacity. We'll beryllium capable to service up to 25 to 30 radical astatine immoderate fixed time."

Just adjacent doorway to the substance maltreatment attraction halfway is Ascend and Sierra Meadows Behavioral Health, wherever South Valley families tin get intelligence wellness assistance for some kids and adults. Whether it's intensive outpatient attraction oregon partial hospitalization services.

Ascend Behavioral Health says 1 of the barriers they spot for families is distance.

"We privation to assistance Visalia and the surrounding communities person entree to those services," said Dr. Jason Christopherson, the Vice President of Pediatric Services. "So that they tin consciousness similar they person precocious prime services that a ample metropolis tin provide."

Dr. Christopherson says the enlargement means bringing successful a much talented and divers team.

"We're capable to person a overmuch much varied team," said Dr. Christopherson. "It's going to beryllium radical who are intelligence wellness professionals, arsenic good arsenic radical who are grooming to beryllium kid psychiatrists, arsenic good arsenic individuals who specialize successful radical facilitation oregon lawsuit management."

By connecting the 2 sites together, some facilities anticipation to code addiction and intelligence wellness hand-in-hand.

On Wednesday, determination volition beryllium an unfastened location astatine the caller determination wherever assemblage members tin circuit the caller site.

A ribbon cutting volition besides beryllium held.

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