This project provides for design and construction of the Restoration Center (RC).The site planning will be designed to allow the remainder of the site to house a future Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Criminal Justice Complex. The master plan and construction of utility work and storm water management for the Restoration Center will include the infrastructure to support the subsequent construction.

This facility will support the implementation of the Crisis Now model in Montgomery County and will provide alternatives to using hospital Emergency Departments or defaulting to criminal justice options for people experiencing a behavioral health crisis. This facility will be operated by the Department of Health and Human Services or a contractor. It will provide a variety of Behavioral Health Services, to include triage, crisis stabilization, and warm hand off referrals to appropriate services for those experiencing mental health, substance use disorder, and/or other types of behavioral health crisis. It will provide an option to Police, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue, and community members and reduce the use of emergency rooms, hospitals, and jail detention. The Restoration Center will be staffed by a multidisciplinary team to include nursing staff, licensed mental health and addiction professionals, peer specialists, and resource navigators. The Center will operate 24/7/365 and will operate under a 100 percent admission ("No Wrong Door") policy.

Design work to begin in summer of 2022 and construction to begin in summer of 2024.

The Restoration Center will complement the "Crisis Now" model in Montgomery County by offering services to the population of Montgomery County that are in crisis and need Behavioral Health Services such as mental health, substance use disorder, and/or other types of crisis. The Restoration Center is a less restrictive and a more clinically appropriate community-based setting.

The Restoration Center will help to reduce the use of emergency rooms, hospitalization, and incarceration and therefore will save time spent by the Police and MCFRS bringing people to and from emergency rooms at hospitals.

State Aid of $12,000,000 provided for FY23. Pre-authorized State Aid of $5,000,000 provided for FY24.

A pedestrian impact analysis will be performed during design or is in progress. The County Executive asserts that this project conforms to the requirement of relevant local plans, as required by the Maryland Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Act.

City of Rockville, Department of General Services, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Department of Police, Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, Maryland Park and Planning, Department of Technology and Enterprise Business Solutions, PEPCO, and Washington Gas.