North Carolina Awards $1 Million To Cardinal Innovations & Monarch For State’s First Children’s Crisis Center

On January 20, 2015, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (DMH/DD/SAS) awarded Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions grant funding of nearly $1 million for a new Child and Adolescent Facility-Based Crisis (FBC) Center service. The 16-bed facility will be based in Mecklenburg County and operated by Monarch. FBCs are community-based, non-hospital residential settings that provide short-term intensive evaluation, treatment intervention, or behavioral management to stabilize crisis situations. Previously FBC services were only for adults, but the state is finalizing new . . .