North Carolina Invests $22 Million in Community Crisis Centers & Peer Respite  

North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced;$22 million in funding to expand community crisis centers and peer respite care. The funding will improve the state’s capacity for community-based crisis treatment by 20% and offer consumers experiencing a behavioral health crisis alternatives to emergency departments or community and state psychiatric hospitals. ;

The investment will support new Facility-Based Crisis Centers for adults in five counties: Alamance, Forsyth, New Hanover, Pitt and Vance counties. It will also fund new community crisis centers for children in three counties: Gaston, Pitt and Vance. NCDHHS said . . .