New mental health crisis centers are open or soon will be in Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile in addition to a Huntsville location. The Alabama Legislature has also set aside money to help build facilities in Tuscaloosa and Dothan.
It’s a $10 million facility located just north of the Wellstone campus at Memorial Parkway and Golf Road in Huntsville. It includes 16 beds with the capacity to grow to 24 beds and offers what Blair has said is an appropriate alternative to the previous bleak options of jail or the hospital emergency department.
“Throughout the past three decades, it’s been placed on the backburner way too long,” the governor said. “Mental health is just as important as physical health,” House Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter, R-Rainsville said. “There is no difference.” “I think Gov. Ivey being here today speaks volumes,” Blair said. “And as Leader Ledbetter discussed, we can no longer separate mental health care and physical health because there’s so one and the same. When we neglect our mental health, eventually, we’re going to neglect our physical health. We’ve got to do a better job of understanding and realizing that. I think more and more people are realizing that it’s OK to not be OK. And they are seeking that help.
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