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1 in 4 Adults experience a mental illness each year in the US.
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1 in 6 American Adults live with a substance use disorder.
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Our region has been among the hardest hit in the nation by fentanyl-related deaths in recent years.
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Despite the overwhelming need for recovery resources, only 1 out of 10 people with substance use disorder receive help due to the following barriers among others:
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Stigma & shame
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High costs & complicated systems to navigate
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Mental Health Provider shortage
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Lack of transportation
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Hopelessness
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How Crossroads can help
In 2024, Crossroads Medical Mission purchased the vacant and derelict house beside of our free-standing clinic on Scott Street. We are seeking funding for renovation and construction of the property, as well as funding for furniture, fixtures, and equipment. The building will be ready to serve our community in late 2026.
Enter HOPE at the Crossroads
We purchased the building next door to our Downtown Clinic on Scott Street, to be used as a Behavioral Health and Wellness Center. Funds raised will go towards transforming this dilapidated old building into a welcoming and functioning counseling and wellness center. We are seeking funding for renovation and construction of the property, as well as funding for furniture, fixtures, and equipment. The building will be ready to serve our community in late 2026.
Jessica Watkins, a long-standing member of our clinical team, has recently earned her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) certification through East Tennessee State University’s Integrative Behavioral Health Institute. Her expanded expertise allows us the ability to provide our patients with integrated behavioral health services while addressing their primary health care needs.
Led by Behavioral Health Clinic Manager and Certified Peer Recovery Specialist Brooke Jenkins, the Hope at the Crossroads program was chosen to replicate the Roanoke-based Bradley Free Clinic's Hope Initiative. This program currently operates out of our medical clinic and serves as a centralized resource hub of support for individuals impacted by substance use disorders and their families, connecting them with vital community resources and care.
Due to recent break-ins, we've had to temporarily board up the house for safety reasons. This is the current condition of the property:
Help us build HOPE
Our goal is to raise $850,000 to renovate this abandoned property at 427 Scott Street, Bristol, Virginia.
There is no doubt there is a behavioral health crisis and we hope to be part of the solution. We intend to provide behavioral health services in a nurturing environment working in conjunction with our medical health services. A warm hand-off from one service to the other increases the success of the process.
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