Our History
It all started with an idea from our CEO Frank Morrison. In 2012, Frank became the executive director of Community House on Broadway, a homeless shelter in Longview, WA. It was clear that the homeless individuals and families that Community House needed better access to behavioral health services on site that could better support them in real time. After many conversations with local leaders and providers, it was apparent that there was no previously set precedent for such community based services locally. In 2014 the shelter was gifted a building that was formerly an internal medicine clinic from the doctors and their spouses who ran the clinic. In 2015 CORE Health officially opened its doors to clients. Our small staff served clients around 250 clients in the first year, both in the office and out in the community, including at the shelter itself. In November of 2017, CORE officially became a separate entity from Community House, while still prioritizing the shelter’s residents as our target population. We have continued to grow quickly and today in 2022 we have serve more than 1,600 clients a month, almost half of which are youth!
CORE Health Main is located on 14th avenue in Longview, WA and is dedicated to offering Adult Mental Health Therapy and Adult Substance Use Treatment.
Today more than ever we continue to live by our mission by promoting community, opportunity, resourcefulness and most of all empowerment!
Today CORE Health has four office locations four locations. The first site established after our initial opening is located in Centralia, WA and offers mental health, peer counseling, and substance use treatment. Next, CORE Health, with the support of our 19th district legislator Jim Walsh, was able to purchase what would become the Social Support Center building in 2017. The center offers Supportive Housing and Employment and is conveniently located on 12th Avenue in Longview, WA, just a short walk away from Community House on Broadway and our CORE Health Youth Center.
With the growing number of employees and clients, CORE Health was in need of a new building that would help separate the youth from adult clients and offer more office space for services. In 2021, CORE Health was able to purchase a building in downtown Longview, WA located at 1400 Commerce Avenue which would be the future home of the CORE Health Ascent Youth Center. Opened in late 2021, CORE Health ASCENT Youth Center offers a safe space for the youth to come and hang out, receive mental health and substance use treatment as well as have a place to socialize with fellow peers.
Today more than ever we continue to live by our mission in Cowlitz County and beyond by promoting community, opportunity, resourcefulness and most of all empowerment!