Miami-Dade Commission finally approves mental health facility over two decades after it was promised

Miami-Dade Commission finally approves mental health facility over two decades after it was promised

More than two decades after voters were promised a new facility to treat people with mental illnesses, rather than warehousing them in the county jail, the Miami-Dade County Commission gave final approval on Tuesday to open the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery.

Miami mental health center is finally approved — but the bill comes later

After twenty years, countless meetings, multiple commissions, endless studies, emotional testimony, and enough bureaucratic delays to qualify for historic preservation status, Miami-Dade’s Center for Mental Health and Recovery is finally moving forward. Unanimously. After hours of discussion and lots of personal sharing and patting each other on the back Tuesday, the Miami-Dade Commission voted 12-0 (Commissioner René Garcia was absent) to move …