Rosecrance history

Siouxland Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (SCADA) was created in 1966 and provided substance abuse prevention and treatment services to the residents of Woodbury, Plymouth, Cherokee, and Ida Counties continuously.

Jackson Recovery Centers was established in 1976 by Doctor W.L. Jackson and his wife Marienne.

Rosecrance had started serving children with behavior disorders and, by 1982, Rosecrance had formally changed its mission to offer adolescent addiction treatment.

In 1986, SCADA merged with St Luke's Regional Medical Center, became the "Addiction Center," and combined outpatient and half-way houses with the detoxification and inpatient services.

In 1989, Gordon Chemical Dependency Center also became affiliated with St Luke's.

Rosecrance expanded its offering in 1992 when it began treating adults at the 32-bed Evergreen Recovery Center in downtown Rockford.

In February of 1995, the assets of the Midwest Iowa Alcohol and Drug Addiction Center (MIADAC) were acquired by St Luke's Gordon Recovery Centers.

In 1998, Gordon Recovery Centers disaffiliated from St Luke's and reestablished itself as an independent, free-standing not-for-profit addiction program.

In April of 2002, Doctor Bill Jackson retired as medical director.

The two organizations had worked together since 2003 to operate the area’s first transcranial magnetic stimulation clinic.

The progress continued into the new millennium when, in August 2004, Rosecrance opened a new $14 million, 78-bed campus to serve youth on University Drive in Rockford—The Griffin Williamson Adolescent Treatment Center.

By 2010, it had become clear that Rosecrance and the Janet Wattles Center had similar, somewhat parallel missions.

The two organizations officially merged on September 1, 2011, forming the state’s most extensive and comprehensive provider of mental health services.

The first merger took place in July of 2016 with an organization called Community Elements.

The second merger took place in January of 2018 with an organization called Prairie Center.

In 2019, Jackson Recovery Centers changed its name to Rosecrance Jackson Centers after affiliating with Rosecrance Health Network.

The next expansion came in late 2020 when Rosecrance acquired Connections Counseling in Madison, Wisconsin.