WHO WE ARE

Our Mission

To provide rehabilitative services to individuals to achieve social reintegration.

Our Values

Integrity: We are trustworthy, respectful, ethical, and accountable for our actions.

Compassion: We are understanding, caring, empathetic to others, and have a strong desire to help people.

Empowerment: We create an environment and provide resources that allow individuals to make effective decisions and take necessary actions.

Safety and Security: We ensure agency stability through policies, procedures, and practices that are designed to protect the staff, our clients, and the community.

Our History

In 1976, Centre was formed to assist the courts and other mainstream public agencies in providing transitional living facilities, community-based treatment, and other programs as a cost-effective rehabilitation program and intermediate measure, as well as an adjunct to parole and probation supervision. Centre’s first transitional living facility was a nine-bed facility in downtown Fargo.

In the early 1980s, Centre began contracting with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR) to provide transitional living and other treatment services. Later, in 1986, Centre purchased its property at 123 15th Street North in Fargo, which it still owns today, and expanded its operation to 25 beds.

In the early 1990s, Centre expanded to Bismarck and opened a 20-bed transitional living facility. Soon after, the agency expanded into Grand Forks by leasing two apartment buildings and turning them into 14-bed and 9-bed transitional living facilities. Centre also began contracting with ND Health and Human Services (HHS) and the DOCR to provide residential services to individuals in substance abuse treatment or diagnosed with severe mental illness.

In the mid-1990s, Centre remodeled its Fargo facility and expanded its capacity to 45 beds, while also adding the Cass County Jail and local courts as referral agents and began accepting individuals approved for school or work release.

In 2000, Centre signed a 15-year lease on a three-story building in downtown Grand Forks that had been severely damaged in the 1997 flood, while also securing approximately $1.5 million to renovate the second and third floors. The second floor housed HHS adult programs, and the third floor was an eight-bed adolescent treatment center.

In 2004, Centre purchased the property to the north of its Fargo facility and completed construction to connect the facilities over the course of a year. The addition and construction resulted in space for three units: a 58-bed male transitional unit, a 38-bed female transitional unit, and a 48-bed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Grant and Per Diem (GPD) Program for veterans experiencing homelessness, which opened in December 2007.

In 2007, Centre moved its Bismarck programming to Mandan after purchasing a property and turning it into a 48-bed male transitional unit and a 28-bed female transitional unit, along with offices for community services and misdemeanor probation programs.

In 2011, Centre secured grant funding to renovate the first floor of its Grand Forks facility and moved its programming for individuals with severe mental illness to that floor. The adolescent treatment center on the third floor was closed and the substance abuse treatment unit took its place. The second floor then became a 28-bed male transitional unit for clients referred by the DOCR.

From 2015 to 2016, Centre purchased land on Westrac Drive in Fargo and designed and constructed a facility to house a 72-bed female transitional unit along with its administrative offices. The administrative offices and female transitional unit, previously located at the 123 facility, were then converted to a 64-bed male transitional unit.

In 2019, Centre purchased its Grand Forks facility from the city and completed more than $2 million in renovations, which resulted in converting the first floor to a Stabilization Center operated in partnership with Northeast Human Services Center.

In 2023, Centre was awarded a contract to begin operating a 10-bed Stabilization Center in Williston. The Stabilization Center is projected to open in January 2024.

Today, Centre has contracts with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services, the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR), North Dakota Department Health and Human Services (HHS), among others.