Aurora Mental Health Center

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Founded| 1975
Type| Private, Nonprofit Community Mental Health Organization
Headquarters| Aurora, Colorado

Area served

| City of Aurora

Exec. Director/CEO

| Kelly Phillips-Henry, PsyD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer
Website| www.aumhc.org

The Aurora Mental Health Center is a private, nonprofit community mental health center in Aurora, Colorado,[1][2] which was founded in 1975.

The center serves more than 25,000 individuals, 68.8% of whom live below the federal poverty level and 21% of whom are uninsured.[citation needed]

Services are provided through 46 programs in 13 counseling centers, 10 residential facilities, 13 sites integrated with primary medical care, in public schools, through county human service departments, in criminal justice settings, in homes and foster homes, and at other community locations.[citation needed]

The Center responds to emergencies and crises through a walk-in crisis center, a Crisis Stabilization Unit, and through mobile crisis response in the community.[citation needed]

## See also[edit]

* Recovery model

## References[edit]

1. ^ Listing at Colorado Department of Human Services website Archived October 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ "First-rate Advocates for Aurora Mental Health", Denver Post, Aug. 1, 2007

## External links[edit]

* Official website
* "Taking the LEAD", Randy Stith, PhD, at Behavioral Healthcare website[permanent dead link]