Our Mission
To equip, educate, and empower individuals, families, and the community with the tools and resiliencies it needs to overcome challenges and to become successful and productive citizens.
About Us
We are the Village
Village Behavioral Health (VBH) is a community-based behavioral health and developmental disability service agency committed to providing individuals with the highest quality of emotional, behavioral, and developmental care. We were founded in 2023 by our CEO Dr. Khidhra Poole and our COO Mr. Jimmy Poole out of a desire to provide quality services in the Central Virginia area. Since our start, we have assembled a team of behavioral health professionals who have the education, experience, and training to support individuals in addressing many of life’s most difficult challenges.
Our Services
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Crisis
These services are for adults (ages 18 and up), to provide direct mental health care to non-hospitalized individuals experiencing an acute crisis of a psychiatric nature that may jeopardize their current community living situation or which puts them at risk of psychiatric hospitalization. These services can be provided to individuals in a safe private location in the community or in their home. The goals of these service are: to avert hospitalization or re-hospitalization; provide normative environments with a high assurance of safety and security for crisis intervention; stabilize individuals in psychiatric crisis; and mobilize the resources of the community support system, family members, and others for ongoing maintenance, and rehabilitation.
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Outpatient counseling
Outpatient counseling uses treatment and intervention to increase the strengths and resources of each individual served. Outpatient counseling serves individuals with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. The program empowers individuals to build skills needed to begin the recovery process.
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Mental Health Skill-Building
This service is for adults (ages 18 and up). This is individualized training in the following areas: Functional skills; Appropriate behavior related to the individual's health and safety; Activities of daily living; Use of community resources; Assistance with medication management; Monitoring health, nutrition, and physical condition; To enable individuals to achieve and maintain community stability and independence in the most appropriate environment.
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Developmental Disabilities
These disabilities are a group of conditions due to an impairment in physical, learning, language, or behavior areas. These conditions begin during the developmental period, may impact day-to-day functioning, and usually last throughout a person’s lifetime.
Insurances we accept

Our Person-Centered Approach
Our Person-Centered Approach refers to our core belief of focusing on the needs of each person to provide a highly customized type of support. Our Person-Centered Planning Approach is one that emphasizes the unique needs of each person, which we use to guide our supports and services.