Scott County Seeking $1.4 Million To Construct Mental Health Crisis Center In Savage

Officials in Scott County, Minnesota are seeking $1.4 million to construct a mental health crisis center in the Savage area. It is anticipated that the facility would be the area’s first residential facility for the housing of vulnerable adults.

The proposed facility would provide 16 beds for individuals suffering from short-term mental crisis, keeping more psychiatric hospital beds open and filling in a regional gap in services. Stays at the facility would be able to last up to 90 days. The need for such a facility is timely, as the county experience a 90 percent increase in . . .