“The Lasting Hope Recovery Center is an important addition to our community’s continuing efforts to reduce reliance on state institutions and provide the full range of quality behavioral health services needed to serve people close to home, families, friends, and community. It is also the most visible example of the extraordinary generosity and involvement of the private sector in bettering our behavioral health system, a generosity and involvement unmatched anywhere in the country. We are deeply grateful to these individuals for caring so much and for making such a difference in the lives of those throughout our community and State who are touched by mental illness.”
– Carole Boye, CEO, Community Alliance
“A behavioral health crisis not only impacts the persons who are experiencing it, but also their family, friends, and community. The Lasting Hope Recovery Center will provide a wonderful and much needed community resource for persons in a behavioral health crisis.”
– Susan Boust, M.D., UNMC Department of Psychiatry
“The Lasting Hope Recovery Center will have a statewide impact as a role model for other communities wanting to respond to the needs of their residents with behavioral health issues. The range of services available through Lasting Hope Recovery Center are a vital component of behavioral health reform efforts that began in 2004. Completing behavioral health reform is one of Governor Heineman’s top priorities for the Division of Behavioral Health.”
– Scot L. Adams, Ph.D., Director
Division of Behavioral Health
Department of Health and Human Services
“With the unfortunate circumstances in the Omaha Metro area in regards to the mental health crisis, the Lasting Hope Recovery Center is a Godsend. From the Law-Enforcement perspective, a quasi one-stop-shop or police-friendly facility is incredibly needed. The Lasting Hope Recovery Center adds 64-mental health beds to our community and gives us more opportunity to reach out to those in crisis instead of jail. This incredible facility is an impressive view of what this community can do when in crisis. What a wonderful collaboration of resources and leaders to make this wish a reality.”
– Deputy Scott Lane, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office
“Hope is the pathway to recovery and having the Lasting Hope Recovery Center in the community opens the door for those struggling with serious mental illness.”
– Jonah Deppe, Interim Director, National Alliance on
Mental Illness-Nebraska
“Lasting Hope is not only Community Based Treatment, it is a Community Collaboration in response to the need of a growing segment of our community. Local leadership courageously recognized and addressed this issue, challenged others to become involved, and developed a plan whereby citizens in the Omaha community will have greater opportunity for treatment. With compassionate community leadership, the barriers created by old stigmas in the treatment of mental illnesses will be broken.”
– Diana Waggoner, Executive Director, Kim Foundation
