Vets Recover, sometimes known as Veterans Recovery Resources, is a mental health nonprofit that focuses primarily on providing treatment to veterans, first responders and their families. Founded in 2015, the nonprofit provides primary care, outpatient mental health services and community integration programs such as volunteer outreach and support groups.

Vets Recover is also in the process of expanding into inpatient treatment and is currently renovating a historic school on Springhill Avenue in Mobile’s Campground neighborhood.

John Kilpatrick, a veteran of the U.S. Military with experience in the Medical Service Corps in the U.S. Army, founded Vets Recover after growing frustrated with trying to get veterans in the area help. Here, he discusses VRR’s new inpatient programs and how south Alabama’s mental health system isn’t set up to meet the needs of the community.

Questions and answers have been condensed and edited for clarity.

Talk about the facility you’re renovating, the big building on Springhill Avenue.