DLC launches Hope for Collier: Building Stronger Minds Together Initiative

$10 million leadership gift from the Bill and Julia Van Domelen Foundation addresses mental health crisis

From its inception in 1968, David Lawrence Centers for Behavioral Health (DLC) has been providing life-changing and life-saving programs and services for adults and children with mental health and substance use challenges in Collier County. DLC, along with its supporters, has for the last 55 years risen to changing and growing community needs by expanding services for Collier’s most vulnerable citizens. Now serving about 9,000 individuals annually at six locations with more than 350 staff members, DLC provides unique treatment services in its more than 40 residential, outpatient, and community-based programs.

DLC announced its single largest philanthropic gift in its history: a $10 million investment from the Bill and Julia Van Domelen Foundation.

To address this crisis and meet these needs head on, DLC’s leadership has identified that a significant investment in capital improvements and professional staff is required. This includes building new and renovating existing state-of-the-art buildings at DLC’s Bathey Lane campus along with construction of the nearby Collier County Behavioral Health Center that DLC will operate; adding vital new clinical services; and employing teams of highly trained and credentialed practitioners to make those services possible.

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