Maine to expand crisis centers

The Living Room Crisis Center (LRCC) in Portland was designed to be warm and welcoming with couches, armchairs, and a skylight greeting people when they arrive.
Private meeting rooms for clients are a feature of the alternative mental health crisis center run by the nonprofit organization Spurwink, along with the state’s Office of Behavioral Health. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, anyone age 14 or older experiencing a mental health crisis can walk into the center for assistance.
Gov. Janet Mills is proposing that this model of an alternative place for people experiencing a mental health crisis to go be replicated in Lewiston. That community made headlines last October when a man carried out a shooting spree there, killing 18 peo...