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Another Beacon on the Horizon

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The growing expertise of Beacon Specialized Living Services continues to expand the envelope of the organization's coverage areas, this time with expansion into another neighborhood of the Upper Peninsula. The firm, which specializes in home care services for individuals with developmental and mental disabilities, is based in the Bangor Train Depot, but has operations now in nearly 30 settings from Berrien Springs to Gladstone in the Upper Peninsula and even into the Thumb area at Sebewaing. New to the line up this week is the company's new St. Ignace Shores facility opening on Friday.

Beacon Specialized Living Services offers a range of health care and nursing assistance services, conducting a variety of activities for the development of living skills. Serving individuals with developmental and mental disabilities, the Beacon focus is on the personal, social and academic growth of individuals.

Beacon's new St. Ignace center is on the site of the former St. Ignace Hospital, and the organization will conduct an open house for members of the community to celebrate the opening of the new treatment center there. That facility will host two 10-bed adult foster care homes and an 8-bed crisis assessment and withdrawal center to diagnose and treat people with substance abuse, addiction and mental illness. 

Aside from the Bangor headquarters inside the Bangor Amtrak Station, the nearest facility in our area is at the former Berrien General Hospital facility at Berrien Center. 

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Beacon Specialized Living Service conducts dialectical behavior and medication therapy sessions. They also offer counseling and housing services, operating a variety of educational and treatment programs. Additionally, they employ a staff of psychiatrists, case managers, site supervisor, and administrative and support personnel. 

The St. Ignace Shores facility open house will recognize the expansion of mental health and substance abuse services in Mackinac County and will feature comments from Rod Nelson, President & CEO of Mackinac Straits Health System, Ken Ratzlaff, the President of Beacon, and Jim Haveman, former director of the Michigan Department of Community Health among others. 

Beacon Specialized Living Services, Inc. also maintains 6 homes in Bangor, 3 in Lawrence, 2 in Gladstone and one in Dafter in the Upper Peninsula. Urban settings operations are also located in Coopersville, Kalamazoo, Kingsley, Norton Shores, Nunica, Plainwell, Traverse City, Whitehall, and Galesburg, while the company maintains apartment settings in Holland, Kalamazoo, South Boardman, and Muskegon.

You can learn more online by clicking this link:  http://www.beaconspecialized.org
 

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