Vital Signs | Finding support during crisis at Region Tens Wellness Recovery Center [Video]

Going through a mental health crisis can be a challenging experience both for the individual, as well as his or her family. One of Region Ten’s crisis programs, the Wellness Recovery Center, has been in place for a number of years and is designed to help meet the growing need for behavioral health crisis support.

Region Ten’s Wellness Recovery Center is a voluntary short-term residential crisis stabilization program for adults ages 18 and older who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis. The main goal of the program is to help a person in crisis avoid psychiatric hospitalization and remain in the community.

Most of the people treated at WRC live in the community with chronic mental health conditions like depression, anxiety and trauma, and then, as a result of life circumstances or a simple worsening of symptoms, they lose the ability to function effectively and/or are at increasing risk …