Adolescent Unit at Longview Campus

Larimer County Behavioral Health Services Acute Care Facility 

  • Our community continues to expand much-needed behavioral health resources for youth.
  • Larimer County is proud to work with SummitStone Health Partners to add beds for adolescents to the taxpayer-funded Acute Care facility.
  • Youth have been able to get services at the 24/7 behavioral health urgent care since it opened in December 2023.
  • The unit is now open to clients (12 to 17 years of age) to receive overnight care.
  • Anyone with a self-described mental health or substance-use crisis can walk into the behavioral health urgent care 24/7, 365 days a year, at 2260 W. Trilby Road in Fort Collins.

 

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Features of the unit include: 

  • Aensory space and nook, 
  • Sun room, 
  • Library, 
  • Living and dining rooms,
  • Patio and backyard recreation space

The unit has existed at the Acute Care facility since its opening. A team from Delehoy Construction did work on the unit in fall of 2025 to make the space more welcoming and compliant with the state’s additional licensing requirements related to youth care.

A barrier was built so adult clients in the facility can neither see nor hear adolescent clients; modifications have also been made to schedules, to keep adolescents separate when moving through the facility. Acute Care staff underwent additional, more-stringent background checks and physicals to work on the unit.

Services offered include:

  • Therapeutic individual and group sessions, 
  • Medication management, 
  • Nursing support, 
  • Occupational therapy, 
  • Various activity, creative and experiential groups

Staff working on the unit had to meet an even higher standard to work with adolescents, including passing enhanced background checks and health assessments.

The Behavioral Health Services at Longview campus, or Longview for short, is nestled along the foothills between Loveland and Fort Collins. 

After two previous ballot measures failed, voters said ‘yes’ to a 0.25% sales-and-use tax – or 25 cents on every $100 spent in Larimer County. The original vision for the Longview campus included not only the Acute Care facility but additional buildings for things like a separate adolescent wing. 

Community members came together in 2020 to break ground on the facility. Fast forward, and a pandemic-related rise in construction costs far exceeded original estimates to build and open the one facility. In total, it cost about $43 million to open the doors to the Acute Care facility.

This prompted the decision to not construct additional buildings on the Longview campus at that time. To honor commitments made to voters, whose approval of the behavioral health tax made the entire campus possible, Larimer County and SummitStone staff opted to move forward with opening a modified adolescent unit at the Acute Care facility.


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