Our History

Wellspring was founded by a small group of community leaders, mental health professionals, and parents to address the need for supportive housing for adults with serious and persistent psychiatric illnesses. With private funding, Wellspring opened its first program in 1982 with a 15-bed residence in Old Louisville, where adults could receive mental health services. Since then, Wellspring has received support from the Kentucky Department of Mental Health and other public and private sources and now owns nearly 20 diverse sites, and offers hundreds of scattered-site apartments, to provide supportive housing options for people with mental illness. Today Wellspring is the region’s leader in providing crisis stabilization, housing, and other supportive services for adults with mental illness.