Central Minnesota Mental Health Center has announced that on January 1st, it will be discontinuing its underutilized withdrawal management program. Central Minnesota Mental Health says an option in the future could be Ascension Recovery Services, which is currently building a residential treatment facility at 302 Fifth Avenue South in St. The closing of the Withdrawal Management Program is expected to impact 25 of the Mental Health Center's 231 employees. In 2024, Central Minnesota Mental Health Center provided crisis, mental health, and chemical health services to more than 7,700 residents in Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright Counties. The space occupied by the Withdrawal Management Program will be repurposed to support a growing demand for its residential crisis program.