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The Beacon Youth and Family Center, which has provided mental-health services for at-risk teens for 42 years, announced Wednesday that it will shut down April 30. The primary reason: declining referrals for residential treatment from state and county services.
“The bottom has fallen out of that market,” said executive director Michael Guthrie. “There is just not money in the system to cover the needs in the community.”
Licensed for 54 beds, the Englewood in-patient treatment center used to be full, with a waiting list. Today there are six patients.
