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Horizon Behavioral Health outlines new crisis care center and expansion of local services

Appomattox County Board of Supervisors · March 17, 2026
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Summary

Horizon Behavioral Health told Appomattox supervisors it launched new programs and secured federal and state grant funds, and described a planned $15.2 million central Virginia crisis care center offering walk‑in evaluations, residential stabilization, a 23‑hour program and medical detox that it expects to open this year.

Melissa Lucy, identified as chief executive officer for Horizon Behavioral Health, presented the organization’s programs and a planned crisis care center at the Appomattox County meeting.

Lucy summarized Horizon’s continuum of community‑based services — including case management, school‑based programs, an adolescent 'tree' program, assertive community treatment (ACT), and crisis stabilization — and said Horizon operates…

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