Partnership Invests $100K To Expand Crisis Care In Bucks Co.

DOYLESTOWN, PA — Foundations Community Partnership has announced a $100,000 donation to the Lenape Valley Foundation for Bright Path Center, a new crisis stabilization center currently under construction in Doylestown.

“This investment represents our deep commitment to advancing behavioral health and human services for children and families in Bucks County,” said Tracy Pasternak Willis, Chair of the Foundations Community Partnership Board of Directors. “By supporting Lenape Valley Foundation and Bright Path Center, we are helping bring a profoundly needed resource to our community that will serve thousands of individuals and families in crisis for years to come.”

From left: Jessica Bollard, Dr. Joseph Stella, Kristopher Thompson, Rachael Neff, Tracy Pasternak Willis, Dave Herold (CEO, Lenape Valley Foundation), Falesha Grasty, Dr. Patricia Stern Smallacombe, Judith Stern Goldstein, Sally Fabian-Oresic, Karen Lasorda, Dr. Tobi Bruhn (CEO, Foundations Community Partnership), and Caroline O’Connell Sinton.

Slated to open in 2026, Bright Path Center will be located adjacent to Lenape Valley Foundation’s existing outpatient site in Doylestown. The center is designed to transform behavioral health crisis care in Bucks County. With separate, trauma-informed spaces for children and adults, it will deliver 24/7 crisis services to meet urgent behavioral health, substance use, intellectual and developmental disability challenges.

“On behalf of Lenape Valley Foundation, I express our heartfelt gratitude to Foundations Community Partnership for this generous gift,” said Dave Herold, CEO of Lenape Valley Foundation. “This enables us to bring Bright Path Center to life and fulfill its mission to deliver compassionate, integrated crisis care in Bucks County.”

The new center, a partnership between Bucks County, the Lenape Foundation, Doylestown Health and the Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission, will be a beacon across the county for those in crisis, officials said.

Bringing substance use recovery and mental health treatment together under one roof, the new center will help an estimated 7,500 people annually and put Bucks County at the forefront of a new approach to crisis treatment, officials said.

The center will feature separate areas for children and adults and areas designed for assessment, referral, and rehabilitation. Space will also be devoted to withdrawal management, and in the most extreme cases, to those who need involuntary commitment.

For more information about Lenape Valley Foundation or Bright Path Center, visit https://www.lenapevf.org .