After Twenty Years, the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery Is Finally Within Reach

For more than two years, I have sponsored and championed one of the most important public health efforts of my time in office: opening the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery at 2200 NW 7th Avenue, a place that will treat people living with serious mental illness instead of warehousing them in our jail. This Tuesday, June 16, that work comes before the full Board of County Commissioners, and I am asking our community to show up and be heard.

This story began over twenty years ago with the advocacy of Judge Steve Leifman. …

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