FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. — KidsPeace and Alliance Health have partnered to open a behavioral health urgent care center in Wake County.   

The center aims to help young people who are dealing with a psychiatric crisis and don't often have options on treatment.

What You Need To Know

  •  The Hope Center for Youth and Family Crisis is now open 

  •  It is located in Fuquay-Varina at the former Southern Wake Hospital site

  •  Health care providers, first responders or care givers can refer youth and children

The Hope Center for Youth and Family Crisis, located in Fuquay-Varina, has been in the works for more than seven years. Crisis Program Director Tammy Margeson is confident this will help kids and families in North Carolina.

"I know that this model works, to have a place where a child and a family can come and get an assessment and a licensed clinician or practitioner can sit down with them and decide what's the next best thing to do," Margeson said.

The center has 24/7, 365-day access to assessment, stabilization and treatment planning in a secure and therapeutic environment. It also offers a mobile response team for the central North Carolina region.

The center started seeing kids and families on Monday.