Overview
- The final round will back 66 projects across 130 facilities, adding more than 2,500 treatment beds and about 4,200 outpatient slots with a focus on under‑resourced areas.
- Highlighted awards include $12 million for the Yurok Tribe’s first-in-state Tribal Peer Respite, $4.4 million for a substance‑use treatment facility in Glenn County, and $38 million for San Joaquin County’s BeWell Campus phase two.
- Eight small counties that previously had no awards will receive targeted funding, including Del Norte ($44.8 million), Inyo ($11.6 million), Shasta ($24.7 million), Siskiyou ($23.7 million), Sutter ($6.6 million), Trinity ($3.5 million), and Yuba ($9.7 million).
- State officials say prior rounds produced over 6,900 residential beds and 27,000 outpatient slots, opened 36 facilities projected to serve nearly 1 million people annually, and coincided with a reported 9% drop in unsheltered homelessness.
- Reporting from CalMatters, cited by the New York Post, says several projects have been delayed or stalled, while the state health department says most construction remains on track with some shifts due to permitting, site conditions, and construction pressures.