WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — ​BryLin Behavioral Health System has announced plans to close its Behavioral Health Center in Williamsville, which includes the outpatient mental health programs for children, adolescents and adults as well as the outpatient addiction clinic for adolescents and adults.

A total of 35 employees will be affected. According to officials, BryLin is working to find those employees other jobs within BryLin or with other organizations.

“It was not an easy decision to make,” President and CEO Eric Pleskow said. “We made a difficult decision. We are now going to refocus on what we do best, which is providing quality inpatient behavioral health care to the Western New York Community for 67 years. We had to make this very difficult decision because we simply cannot keep up, on an outpatient basis, with the funding that other local nonprofit outpatient clinics receive because of our for-profit status.” 

Officials say the location will close once all care recipients have been linked with other community resources. 

“We are notifying our care recipients and encouraging them to attend all appointments as scheduled. We are working to facilitate a warm handoff to other community providers as soon as possible,” Pleskow said. 

BryLin Behavioral Health System opened the Behavioral Health Center in 2013.