GLEN ALLEN, Va. (WWBT) - When DaVonne Garner walks through her newly-opened crisis recovery center, she feels the presence of her identical twin nephews Taj and Najee.

“They were beautiful boys, engaged students and athletes all throughout high school,” Garner said about her nephews.

After graduation she said they hit a few bumps in the road. Both fell into opioid addiction and mental health struggles. Taj died at 21 and Najee passed just two years later at 23.

“They were loved, they were nurtured and still they found themselves in really precarious situations,” Garner said.

She went down a path to find evidence-based treatment that could save people just like her nephews.

That path led to her opening the Taj and Najee Callender Crisis Receiving Center on Nov. 15 located at 1201 Old F

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