NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A new facility in Nashville is bringing hope to families in crisis.

Just across from the North Nashville Mental Health Cooperative, community and mental health leaders cut the ribbon on Tuesday on a center designed to save young lives.

"Having resources readily available 24/7 regardless of an individual's ability to pay to help serve and stop that, then changes lives literally changes the life of that child and of that family," Mental Health Cooperative CEO Michelle Schafer said.

The new Children and Youth Crisis Stabilization Unit in Nashville is now open to kids ages 4 to 17, becoming the second of its kind in Tennessee.

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The first children and youth unit is located in Knoxville.

"Even if

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