Before both the federal and state governments resolved impasses Wednesday, Nov. 12, the Center for Community Resources and its crisis center were nearly facing their own emergency.

The Butler-based nonprofit, which takes about 16,000 mental health related calls per year from 24 counties, would have needed a line of credit to fund its crisis operations in the next 30 days — but likely will be able to make ends meet now, until the funds from the state budget arrive.

The center’s CEO, Brandon Savachka, said Thursday, Nov. 13, he is more optimistic about the funding being available, but he’s left with another question: When will the funds come through?

“It would probably take at least six weeks before we would start to receive payments from some of our funders,” Savachka previously said.

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