Founded in 1993 and initially operating as a home-based business by Scott and Celia Kelly, Scott combined the Charlevoix Teen Center facility and the BASES program in 1997 when BASES purchased the building so the Teen Center could continue. BASES is housed in a 5,000 square foot building that has since been renovated, inside and out from 1998-2007, and the mortgage has been paid off leaving BASES, Inc. debt free since 2005.