More than $190 million in state funding will flow to eight new mental health and drug treatment facilities across the Bay Area, part of the latest round of Proposition 1 grants announced by Governor Gavin Newsom. The latest round of grants totals nearly $1.2 billion statewide. Proposition 1, the $6.4 billion behavioral-health bond voters approved in March 2024, is intended to build more behavioral health treatment facilities for people struggling with mental illness and addiction.
Among the Bay Area projects approved by the California Department of Health Care Services are $7 million for an outpatient mental health center in Berkeley with 80 treatment slots, about $14 million for a 44-bed residential drug treatment facility on Treasure Island in San Francisco, and $25 million for an integrated sobering and treatment center in San Mateo with 69 beds. Additional Proposition 1 funding supports behavioral health treatment projects in Vallejo, Napa, and Fairfield. Solano County received $37 million for its planned Behavioral Health Recovery Campus in Fairfield, designed to include residential treatment, a crisis stabilization unit, and a sobering center, and slated to open in December 2028.
The newly funded Bay Area facilities are expected to open within a few years, though timelines for large state-funded construction projects often shift. The facility in San Mateo, dubbed the Horizon Recovery Center, will receive about $25.5 million in Proposition 1 funding and is expected to open in 2028 or 2029. The nonprofit Horizon Treatment Services will operate it as a multi-stage recovery center with 16 sobering beds for short-term stays, 17 beds for an intensive detox program lasting up to a week, and 36 beds for longer-term residential treatment lasting several months. San Mateo County’s Board of Supervisors contributed $2 million from opioid settlement funds to support the project. When completed, projects from the latest batch of grants and earlier rounds of funding are expected to add nearly 7,000 treatment beds and more than 27,500 other treatment slots statewide.
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