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WOOSTER — OneEighty’s Beacon House project to expand the number of beds for women and children is again the top priority to receive capital funding from the state, members of the area Mental Health & Recovery Board decided Thursday. Members of the Mental Health & Recovery Board of Wayne & Holmes Counties ranked Beacon House as the No. 1 priority and a project of The Village Network to convert a cottage to a crisis stabilization unit as the No. 2 priority during their regular June meeting. Clinical Director Gina Patterson and Finance Director Bobbi Bresson of OneEighty (formerly Liberty Center Connections/STEPS) talked about the project during a meeting of the program committee June 2. The plan is to replace Beacon House, a residential recovery center for women. The house can accommodate 12 people, and problems with space arise when a mother and her children stay there. A newly constructed facility will have 16 beds for women …show more content…

It might be a youth is in crisis stabilization for two weeks, whereas in a residential treatment facility the stay could be as long as six months. “We have two viable options,” Wood said. The idea behind identifying two projects is to have the second one in case any issues arise with financing the first project or completing it within the two-year time frame, Executive Director Judy Wortham Wood said. “If Priority No. 1 cannot deliver because of technicalities, we will want to switch our priorities” as has been done in the past. The Beacon House had been the top priority during the last capital budget, but it was unable to move forward at the time. So, a second project was switched, this one to convert the former hospice office on Back Orrville Road into a new facility for NAMI and Anazao Community Partners. (An open house for the new facility is 4 p.m. Thursday at 2525 Back Orrville

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