Southcentral Foundation begins work on $100 million facility to expand behavioral health services in AlaskaSouthcentral Foundation held a groundbreaking ceremony for a behavioral health expansion project in Anchorage on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. .
The new center is set to be completed in early 2026, said April Kyle, chief executive of Southcentral Foundation, during a ceremonial groundbreaking at the site on Tuesday. “It’s essential that when a community member is experiencing a ‘right-now’ behavioral health crisis, that we have the right service for them,” Kyle told around 150 people gathered for the ceremony. “I think we know that we don’t have that today. Far too often when somebody is in a crisis, they end up in our emergency services department, or worse, in jail.”
The new Southcentral Foundation program will be open to all Alaska residents who would like to have support in completing medical detox, the organization said in the prepared statement.