NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – September is Suicide Awareness Month. A new center in Norfolk is designed to give people a safe space for people experiencing a mental health crisis.
Life’s Journey recently opened its new Crisis Receiving Center. It is open 24/7, at 1003 Norfolk Square, off East Virginia Beach Blvd. near Ingleside Road.
“It is our desire to use our new crisis center to work hand in hand with hospitals to minimize overflow of mental health patients, city jails to connect recently released inmates with resources they need, the Community Services Boards and numerous private organizations,” said Benicia Hernandez, LPC, LSATP, Life’s Journey CEO and founder…