Endeavor Health has partnered with Kenneth Young Center (KYC) to enhance its community behavioral health services through Endeavor Health’s Community Investment Fund (CIF).
Kenneth Young Center provides prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery services, working to meet clients where they are at to support their behavioral health wants and needs.
Endeavor Health’s CIF grant enhances KYC’s mobile behavioral health crisis response, providing safe, accessible and 24/7 mental health services, navigation and follow-up.
The center’s partnership with Endeavor Health has helped fund new vans to respond to mental health crises and to transport clients to needed services, expanding behavioral health care access to community members in need.
“The CIF has allowed us to purchase vans, and that allows us to go out in the community and transport someone who’s experiencing distress to whatever their next step is,” said Luke Lefever, deputy director of crisis services for Kenneth Young Center.
Additionally, mobile crisis response teams are equipped with personal safety response devices which can be activated whenever additional support is needed.
KYC’s mobile crisis response units and other crisis services are staffed with a team of one behavioral health provider and one peer support specialist who has lived experience and can actively listen and help guide clients toward recovery.
“Recovery is a journey, it’s not a destination,” said Mark Mathews, peer recovery support specialist at Kenneth Young Center. “Our lived experience is our biggest asset. You can’t educate someone on this stuff, you’ve either experienced it or you haven’t.”
People can call Kenneth Young Center for free help 24/7 at (847) 383-0406.
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