Mental Health Urgent Care center closer to opening in Burlington [Video]

September 10 is worldwide suicide prevention day and Vermont is increasing efforts to add care centers for mental health care in the state.The Department of Mental Health, alongside the Howard Center, and other community partners is set to open a Mental Health Urgent Care center next month. This will be the first urgent care of its kind in Chittenden County and the fourth in the state. It will allow adults in need to be quickly evaluated and matched with providers and programs to get them the best care possible.”I see the creation of this program really as a suicide prevention measure,” said Charlotte McCorkel, the Howard Center’s senior director of client services.The center is set to open on October 28th and will run on a walk-in basis for adults with increasing or acute mental health needs, not emergency situations.”The walk-in nature of the clinic itself will be assisting suicide prevention, …