The system as it stands, November 2026

As of November 2026 · designated centre, crisis provision, county provision

Named as of November 2026, the system this ground's residents use stands as follows. The designated centre: Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Inc., designated community mental health centre for St. Joseph County since September 24, 2010, and a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic, seated for this county at 415 East Madison Street, South Bend, with further county seats at 251 East Sample Street and 2319 Edison Road; the state Division of Mental Health and Addiction's certified-provider register carries its South Bend outpatient seat as active in the register as of November 5, 2026. The inpatient house: Memorial Epworth Center, Beacon Health System's psychiatric hospital on the old Madison Center campus on North Niles Avenue, serving more than 10,000 patients a year at the Epworth facilities — and, by Beacon's October 2026 announcement, absorbing the Elkhart Center for Behavioral Medicine's inpatient service by December 1, 2026, so that the county's inpatient behavioral health stands consolidated in the one house. The crisis provision: three layers, all live. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text, around the clock; Oaklawn's own 24-hour crisis line and its mobile crisis response team, integrated with the county's 911 dispatch since 2022, so that eligible mental-health calls coming into 911 are worked by the crisis team rather than by police alone; and the walk-in Oaklawn Crisis Center at 420 North Niles Avenue, Suite 100 — inside the Epworth building — open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, the successor seat of the crisis stabilisation centre built there with American Rescue Plan money, 2.7 million dollars earmarked by the St. Joseph County Council and 2.66 million supplied by the City of South Bend, fourteen beds, run by Oaklawn with Beacon as partner. The county provision: the county no longer keeps a house of its own — Portage Manor, the last county home, closed July 31, 2023, and its building was sold in October 2026 — so the county's part is now money, coordination and the health department's resource register, which points residents to Oaklawn, the crisis centre, the Clubhouse and 988. And this ground's own edge of the system is as the banked file prints it: nothing of the above is seated inside the census line; the Granger resident's doorways are the South Bend Clinic Granger Campus's integrated behavioral health, the office layer in the subdivisions, and the ride — shorter now, and to a crisis centre as well as a hospital — into the county seat's system.

Sources: Indiana FSSA, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, certified provider list as of November 5, 2026; Oaklawn (the crisis centre's address and hours; the 24-hour crisis line; the mobile crisis team); St. Joseph County Department of Health community resources (Oaklawn, the Oaklawn Crisis Center at 420 North Niles Avenue, the Clubhouse, 988); South Bend Tribune, December 1, 2022 (the mobile team's integration with county 911; the crisis centre's funding and fourteen beds); City of South Bend / Tribune, January 3, 2023 (the city's 2.66 million dollars); Beacon Health System, July 2021 (the Epworth facilities' 10,000 patients a year) and October 2026 (the December 1, 2026 consolidation); the Portage Manor record as printed in this section.