The Community Rehabilitation Center (CRC) was founded in 1993 for the expressed purpose of responding to a need in Jacksonville, Florida for a comprehensive rehabilitation program in the Duval, Clay and Nassau county areas. Our mission is a simple one! We aim to create diverse mental health, drug & substance abuse plus HIV/AIDS prevention, awareness and counseling services coupled with social programs such as vocational and job training and career counseling that are effective and responsive to the needs of the citizens of Jacksonville, Orange Park, Fernandina Beach and more.

We believe that Being human means bearing burdens. However, some of the burdens placed on some of us exceed the strength we possess. Those living with the biological and chemical disorders of mental illness, substance abuse or HIV/AIDS are asked to carry among the heaviest of burdens. As citizens of our communities, it is our responsibility to give them the help and the support they need to face each new and changing day.

The Community Rehabilitation Center (CRC) and its staff of more than fifty compassionate professionals offer hope where once there was none. Statistics show that on any given day, 3,000 homeless people are on the streets of Jacksonville. Over 65% of them have a chronic mental illness. Many also suffer from substance abuse or HIV/AIDS. That's where CRC comes in. Our comprehensive range of services seeks to help these people to the fullest extent possible. Many of these individuals are taken into the criminal-justice system for offenses as minor as trespassing. In reality, they belong in a program like ours. A program that costs society just one-third the amount of the criminal-justice system. A program that offers treatment and understanding, dedicated to the goal of making lives whole.