The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for children and families. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over work produced by this team.

Seattle isn’t the only city that’s faced difficult neighborhood conversations when deciding where to locate services aimed at helping people in mental health crisis.

The Metropolitan King County Council voted last month to place a walk-in mental health crisis center on Capitol Hill — a location that sparked discussions in the surrounding neighborhood and heated public comments at council meetings.

Supporters of the center say the facility is needed in the neighborhood, which struggles with

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