Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System held a ribbon cutting Thursday for its new inpatient Military Female Sexual Trauma Program.
Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System CEO Leslie Flechler said the program will offer specialized treatment designed to inspire, empower, and build upon the resiliency skills many service members use while serving in the armed forces.
“It’s designed to meet the needs of active duty service members and veterans, females that is, that are in need of more intense treatment,” Flechler said. “They will come to us for maybe 21 to 45 days, focus on their trauma, and stabilize so they can return to duty.”
Flechler said a goal of the program is to keep area service members in need of treatment closer to the communities and families that support them.
“We were specifically approached by some of our local, more regional military installations, and they are sending service members out to other states, and we feel it’s important for them to be able to stay local, many times close to their families, but also it’s just as important they are close to their command and their behavioral health providers at the installations,” Flechler said.
The first patients will be welcomed to the program beginning Monday. In addition to the Military Female Sexual Trauma Program, the health system provides an inpatient PTSD and Substance Use Military/Veteran Program. No-cost level of care assessments are available 24/7.
Contact the Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System at 270-351-9444 or visit www.lincolnbehavioral.com.
