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The county centre founded: Madison Center, 1949

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1949 – 2010

The community mental health centre that served this town for six decades was founded in 1949 and sat in South Bend. Madison Center — founded in 1949, on its own corporate record as carried in the 2010 designation announcement — grew into the nonprofit that provided comprehensive mental health and substance-abuse services for St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaPorte, Marshall and Porter counties, and held the State of Indiana's designation as community mental health centre for St. Joseph County. For North Liberty, Madison was the designated door: the centre to which the county's system routed outpatient care, crisis provision and the state-required duties the designation carries. Madison's internal course — its buildings, directors and programs — is South Bend's build's subject and stands at pointer size here; what this section must carry whole is its end as the designated centre, because that end changed this town's provider, and it happened in three dated steps that the floor discipline requires be kept separate.

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Source: The county centre founded: Madison Center, 1949, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/mental-health-institutions/county-centre-founded-madison-center-1949/