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Highlights of the past 30+ years: 1968 Community Mental Health Center established, providing Adult Outpatient Services to the community with staff of one full-time social worker and one part-time psychologist 1969 Second outpatient center opened, Lawrence County 1972 Evaluation of Adult Outpatient Services setting a precedent for Center focus on providing efficacy treatment to clients 1972 Community Support Service established for clients with serious and persistent mental disorders 1972 Addictions Services developed through Criminal Justice Planning grant 1973 Child and Adolescent Services established to provide care for children and their families 1973 Morgan County office opened in Morgan County Hospital 1974 Center awarded National Institute of Mental Health Staffing grant for full range of services 1974 Owen County office opened bringing, the first mental health services to this county 1974 Center awarded Federal Staffing Grant to increase services 1977 Center staff expands to 80 employees 1978 Older Adults, Screening, and Residential Services opened through National Institute of Mental Health grant 1978 Owen County Center moves to newly built facility 1979 Caregiver Resource Center established in collaboration with Bloomington Hospital and Indiana University Institute on Aging to provide services tailored to meet needs of older adults 1979 First Addictions Intensive Outpatient Program in Indiana pioneered and opened by the Center 1979 Bloomington Detox, later renamed Addictions Treatment Center, opened to provide residential detoxification for persons with alcohol and drug addictions 1979 First residential program, Blair House, opened to serve adults with severe disorders 1981 Center moved from Bloomington Hospital facility to modular trailers on corner of 2nd and Rogers while 645 South Rogers facility constructed 1982 Monroe County service moved into new facility at 645 South Rogers Street 1983 Library dedicated in honor of psychiatrist Eldred Hardtke 1984 Center Enterprise’s Work Crew introduced to provide employment to clients 1986 Lawrence County Center moves into newly built facility 1986 Community Employment Program established, which later becomes Harvest Employment Services 1986 Alternative Day School Program for emotionally handicapped students opens for Martinsville Metropolitan School District 1989 Morgan County Center new facility completed 1990 Center approved as American Psychological Association internship site for doctoral students 1991 Owen County Center building expansion 1991 Hoosier House opened to serve homeless adults suffering from severe and persistent mental illness 1991 Center nursing staff initiates Southeastern Indiana District Council of Mental Health Centers to improve continuity of care for clients 1992 Stress, Phobia, and Panic Disorder Clinic established, using efficacy based treatment protocols 1992 Addiction Services adopts motivational Interviewing techniques 1993 Depression Treatment Clinic established 1993 Westplex Woods Apartments opens to serve clients with serious and persistent mental disorders 1994 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) awards Center accreditation 1994 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Program established 1995 Nursing establishes Clozaril Clinic 1995 Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder Clinic opened for children and adolescents 1996 Hope House located near Indiana School for the Deaf opens as group home for Deaf adolescent boys with mental health problems 1996 Harvest Vocational Program accredited by CARF 1996 Fresh Start Residential Brief Treatment Center for children and adolescence opened with partners Quinco Behavioral Health Systems and Adult & Child Mental Health Center 1997 Lawrence County Apartment Complex built to house homeless clients with serious and persistent mental disorders 1997 Addictions Treatment Center becomes Recovery House, which provides room and board to persons participating in Addictions Services. The clinical service components of ATC are moved to 645 South Rogers facility to meet JCAHO requirements 1997 Partnership with Amethyst House formed through clinical services contract 1997 Deaf Network founded to provide outpatient services for deaf and hard of hearing persons in Southern and Northern Indiana 1997 Fox House opens to address housing needs of persons who are HIV positive 1997 Name changed from South Central Community Mental Health Center to Center for Behavioral Health 1997 Transportation services for clients begins, in order to improve accessibility 1997 SouthPoint Psychological Group opens as EAP and outpatient service in Mooresville 1997 Center joins the ASPIN Managed Behavioral Health Care Network with other Central Indiana providers 1998 To address the issue of youth substance abuse, CBH developed the Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program, a program similar to Adult IOP, but geared to adolescent issues 1998 Expansion of Stress, Phobia, and Panic Disorder clinic to serve children and adolescents with anxiety disorders 1998 Center staff has expanded to 300 employees 1998 PsychConsult computer software program implemented, which prepares Center for new millennium of technology to combine clinical outcomes, customer service, and business assessment information 1998 Transitional care facility opened to provide sub-acute care for adult clients with persistent and severe mental disorders, as well as persons requiring medical supervision during detoxification from alcohol and other drugs 1998 Nursing services expands into Ambulatory Care Clinic 1998 Central Billing Services introduced to handle client billing for contracts 1998 Behavioral Pathways Systems, Inc. launched to provide clinical performance outcome measures for JCAHO accredited organizations nationally 1998 Behavioral Medicine specialty clinic developed to treat physical health problems such as headaches and irritable bowel syndrome 1998 Child and Adolescent Home-based services expanded to offer full range of family preservation services for county OFCS 1999 Center for Behavioral Health celebrates 30th anniversary 1999 Martinsville Plaza Apartments, a nine-unit apartment building opens to provide supportive housing for seriously mentally ill adults who are homeless and do not require 24-hour supervised residential/inpatient care 1999 The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) awarded CBH with the Ernest A. Codman Award in the behavioral health care category. CBH was the first behavioral health care organization to win the prestigious award, which recognizes excellence in the use of outcome measurement to achieve health care quality improvement 2000 Integration of Behavioral Health services with primary health care providers expands to seven locations 2000 CBH becomes sole owner of Behavioral Pathways Systems, Inc, which provides clinical performance outcome measures for JCAHO accredited organizations nationally 2000 CBH branch clinic opens in Mooresville, IN--the city’s first behavioral health care clinic 2001 Mooresville Apartments open to provide clients with semi-independent
housing. 2002 Adolescent services expanded in Monroe County, to include PHP, Girls Depression and Abuse Survivor Groups, Boys' Life Skills, BIG, Go Girrls, etc. 2003 Housing initiatives expanded: Shelter Plus Care and oversight of a new Grant Street Facility (added to our services upon the closing of Shelter, Inc). 2003 Partnership with Options for Better Living established to deal with Dual Diagnosis population (individuals with mental health disorders as well as physical disabilities).
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