10/31/2025
🎃 Happy Halloween from Archway Station, Inc.! 👻
Archway Station, Inc. is a private nonprofit corporation operating in Allegany County, Maryland.
45 Queen Street
Cumberland, MD
21502
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Archway Station's mission is to provide psychiatric rehabilitation services to adults recovering from serious mental illness and services to adults with developmental disabilities. Archway also serves children overcoming serious emotional and/or behavioral problems. The foundation of services is our belief that the children and adults using services are first and foremost people. The success of our service rests on the honoring and celebration of our shared humanity. The Early History of Archway Station (1979-1984)
In January of 1979 staff representatives of the Allegany County Mental Health Center and the Thomas B. Finan Center met to discuss Allegany County's need for a hospital-to-community transitional program for psychiatric patients. A task force was selected from representatives of the initial group. The primary responsibility of the task force was to develop a community-based psychosocial rehabilitation center. A consultant (Mr. Grady O'Rear) was hired by the State Regional Office to aid in the development of this program and a task force of representatives from mental health service providers was formed. The task force decided to follow the guidelines of the internationally-known Fountain House program of New York City. Therefore, the initial organization of Archway Station began in the second half of 1979.
Through the use of loaned staff, vehicles, and supplies from the Allegany County Mental Health Center and the Thomas B. Finan Center, a program was started. Initial members came to the program in the summer of 1979 from the Allegany County Health Department Day Treatment Program and the Thomas B. Finan Center. For several months this group of approximately eight persons met at the Mental Health Center and did recreational activities at the Finan Center.
In November of 1979, the group moved into the basement hall of St. John's Lutheran Church, 406 Arch Street, Cumberland, MD. The people using the service, originally referred to as “Clubhouse members”, chose the name “Archway Station”. The name chosen was likely influenced by the architecture of the church, as well as its Arch Street location – and remember Mr. O’Rear was from Way Station! Thus began the development of a private, non-profit organization. A Board of Directors was established and Articles of Incorporation were written and approved on April 4, 1980; Archway's official birthday.