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"I'm much cheerier and more positive."Nance also is a success story for Heritage Behavioral Health Center, as it prepares to celebrate 50 years of helping people with mental illness, which includes more than 35 years of treating chemical dependency."Last year, we touched more than 7,000 men, women and children," said Diana Knaebe, president and chief executive officer since 2002, "helping them turn lives that were often filled with fear, helplessness, hopelessness and despair - a living nightmare - into one of hope, where dreams again flourish."Many people living that kind of nightmare came before former Macon County Judge Gus T.

Greanias in court.

As a result, he was among the people who in 1955 organized the Macon County Mental Health Association, which in turn established the Mental Health Clinic of Macon County on March 1, 1956."The community was quite progressive for starting a community mental health clinic as early as they did," Knaebe said.

Renamed the Decatur Mental Health Center in 1970, it was given its current name of Heritage Behavioral Health Center when it moved from the Decatur Memorial Hospital campus to 151 N.

Main St.

in 1998.The center also has undergone other changes, growing from six employees and a budget of $31,000 in 1956 to 210 employees and a budget of more than $10 million today.It is the only mental health ...

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