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Horizon Behavioral Health presents annual report, updates crisis receiving center and outreach programs
Summary
Horizon Behavioral Health CEO Melissa Lucey told Lynchburg City Council that the agency expanded mobile and co-responder teams, increased client contacts and won federal and state grants to boost local programs, and said renovations on a crisis receiving center are underway.
Melissa Lucey, CEO of Horizon Behavioral Health, presented the agency’s annual report to the Lynchburg City Council on May 13, outlining program growth, grant awards and plans for a local crisis receiving center.
Luеy told council members that Horizon expanded community-based crisis response this fiscal year with co-responder and mobile response teams designed to reduce hospital readmissions and keep people in the community. “These programs actually decrease hospitalizations, keeping individuals into our community and keeping them safe,” Lucey said.
The presentation summarized service volume and new programs. Lucey reported that Horizon’s crisis team provided services to more than 1,000 people for crisis intervention and more than 2,100 people through emergency services during the fiscal year. Prevention work logged 12,211 face-to-face contacts and multiple community…
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