community mental health center

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.

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

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

From New York Times

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

Prosecutors alleged that Fordham kicked back money to former state Rep. Robin L. Williams in exchange for a lucrative contract with the East Georgia Community Mental Health Center.

From Washington Times

A former development director for a South L.A. psychiatric hospital and community mental health center, Ryu became the council’s first Korean American member.

From Los Angeles Times