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Dr. Kirsten Watkins will be the new Adult Services director for the Bert Nash Center, effective immediately. She replaces Marsha...

Grateful for Skills, Connections, and Stability

Before I felt so broken, now I feel more alive.

As the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center begins the process of becoming a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC), Marsha Page-White will be the point person leading the Center through that transition. Page-White, senior director of Innovation & Implementation Since joining the Bert Nash Center team three years ago, Marsha has served as the director of Adult Services. With the Center beginning the process of implementing the CCBHC model, Marsha’s focus wil

When Gryffin started coming to the Bert Nash Center for services, they found the help they needed. They also found a sense of connection and community. “As a trans individual, especially someone nonbinary, I’m often the odd one out,” Gryffin said. “I don’t often get the chance to participate fully, there are parts of my experiences, my identity, which just don’t fit.” After joining a trans dialectical behavior therapy group led by Bert Nash Center therapist Amy Hammer, Gryff

Mental Health Professionals team up with local law enforcement to help those experiencing a crisis.

Outcomes, accomplishments, stories, and updates about The Bert Nash Center in 2021.

Since 2006, the Bert Nash Center Homeless Outreach Team has been helping some of the most vulnerable among us. “We’re just trying to help people, and it’s a privilege when they will actually let you come into their lives,” said Kelly Martin, a member of the Bert Nash Center Homeless Outreach Team. “They are just people who trying to do their best to get by.” The Bert Nash Center Homeless Outreach Team is funded through a partnership with the city of Lawrence and works with th

YOU created opportunities to ensure quality mental health care remains available for our community members. You made it possible for us to expand our hours and add 33 new positions to keep pace with the increasing demand for mental health care. You made it possible for us to offer summer psychosocial camp for 19 children; you assisted us in helping 32 individuals secure and maintain meaningful employment; and you helped us serve 161 individuals and 22 families who experience

Thank you to Meritrust Credit Union for partnering with the Bert Nash Center to host a Winter Clothing Drive! New or gently used winter clothing are needed to benefit the Bert Nash Center Homeless Outreach team’s efforts to support those who are unhoused in Douglas County. Donations can be dropped off starting November 1st through December 17th between 9:00a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at either Meritrust Credit Union or the Bert Nash Center.

Dr. George Thompson has been an active participant in the planning for the new Treatment and Recovery Center (TRC). Now he is the TRC’s first medical director. Thompson began his duties November 1st. Construction of the facility is expected to be completed in spring 2022. “It’s very exciting to be part of something where there’s a clear vision and collaboration like there has been with this project,” Thompson said. “I’m excited about the opportunity to work with so many wonde

In June 2020, days after the murder of George Floyd, Bert Nash Center CEO Patrick Schmitz issued a statement on behalf of the organization in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Part of the statement included a commitment by the Center’s Executive Team to “undertake the important work of evaluating how implicit and unconscious bias are at work within our organization. This is a combination of personal work and organizational work, which we are committed to doing.” In