County leaders approved $56 million for a mental health center on Golden Gate Parkway. The new building will add 87 beds to serve patients in need of care.
A local nonprofit, the David Lawrence Center, will run the site. This adds to their current 33-bed youth wing on Baffy Lane, bringing total capacity to 120 patients.
“This project is critically important for Collier County for a number of different reasons, not least of which is we’re in the greatest mental health crisis that we’ve ever experienced in Collier County,” said Scott Burgess, CEO of the David Lawrence Center, to WINK News…