community mental health center

American  

noun

1. a healthcare facility or network of agencies that is part of a system originally authorized by the U.S. government to provide a coordinated program of continuing mental health care to a specific population.

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Example Sentences

As she weighed her vote, Lee thought of a lesson she’d learned in an earlier job running a community mental health center: “Don’t make critical decisions when you’re grieving and mourning, angry, confused.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2023

I work at a small community mental health center, and we recently started having an overnight clinician-only retreat.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2023

Later she was chief of program evaluation at a community mental health center and a social science research training director at the National Institute of Mental Health.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2021

With a referral from the probation office, the community mental health center made room for him right away.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2012

But the few psychiatrists who took his insurance were not accepting new patients, and the earliest opening at the community mental health center was two months away.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2012