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Founded 1962 · designated for this county 2010 – present
Oaklawn is a Mennonite mental health centre, one of eight in its national family, and it came to this county from the county next door. Founded in 1962 and sponsored by Mennonite Health Services Alliance — accountable to Mennonite Church USA, Mennonite Brethren and Brethren in Christ churches — Oaklawn is described in its own record as the only faith-based mental health centre in Indiana. It was incorporated as a community mental health centre in 1973, receiving federal funds under the Community Mental Health Centers Act to serve Elkhart County on an ability-to-pay basis; its hospital opened in July 1987 at 330 Lakeview Drive, Goshen, a 78-bed inpatient facility for adults, adolescents and children. The State of Indiana's July 2025 listing of state psychiatric hospitals and community mental health centres carries Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Inc. as the designated centre for St. Joseph County — the current designation, verified at that date — with its crisis line in the state listing. The state-institution items of the checklist resolve at boundary size: no state hospital, children's developmental centre or county-home second-life institution (the Portage Manor pattern of the floor) stood in Liberty Township at any date reached, and the county-home succession belongs to South Bend's ground and build.