Media Coverage: Community Support Advocates Opens Doors
On behalf of everyone at Community Support Advocates: Thank you Central Iowa! Despite the sweltering heat we had an amazing turn out to celebrate our new and expanded headquarters located at 1516 Valley West Drive in West Des Moines.
We enjoyed showing off our larger and more centrally located facility that allows us to welcome the community in to see our values in action. Here are a few stories that local media helped us tell:
- WeAreIowa: Community Support Advocates held ribbon cutting ceremony for new location
- KCCI’s Nicole Tamm: Iowa organization expands services for people with disabilities
- WHO-TV’s Erin Kiernan: Community Support Advocates is growing, providing more services, especially for young Iowans
- 2024 DSM People Issue: Community Support Advocates
- Axios’s Jason Clayworth: Youth mental health therapy clinic opens in West Des Moines
Today’s Business Record:
Community Support Advocates unveils new behavioral health clinic
Community Support Advocates celebrated the opening of its new Integrated Behavioral Health Clinic on Tuesday in West Des Moines. The 87,000-square-foot facility at 1516 Valley West Drive will allow the nonprofit public health organization to expand its services, with the clinic specializing in creative arts play therapy. The new location includes an Out of the Box Initiative representational library, an accessibility tech center supported by Google Fiber, a permanent gallery for CSA’s Momentum Arts program, and a public art installation called “Hands of Hope,” which was made from individual tiles painted by 500 different community members. “Whether it’s crisis intervention for a family in need or behavioral health services, mental health services or services for families who have those with intellectual disabilities, the services that [CSA] provides is a lifeline to these families and is so desperately needed,” West Des Moines Mayor Russ Trimble said in a prepared statement.
A huge thanks to our wonderful staff, board of directors, volunteers, and Momentum artists who helped make this day a dream come true!
Help us open more doors for those in need. Support us at teamcsa.org/donate.