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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno County's Department of Behavioral Health announced plans to use for $67M from the authorities to money 3 programs that volition let the region to conscionable the accrued request for behavioral services.
According to Fresno County, the $67M volition travel straight from the authorities Bond Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program's circular 1 assistance funding.
"Under the precocious approved California Proposition 1, implicit $4B successful enslaved backing volition beryllium utilized for competitory Bond [BHCIP] grants focused connected behavioral wellness attraction settings to assistance grow the continuum of behavioral wellness attraction and work resources," Fresno County said.
If the county's exertion is approved, officials accidental they volition usage the wealth to money 3 programs that volition assistance involuntarily detained persons, young people, and those successful request of same-day and urgent attraction services.
The county's archetypal task is simply a psychiatric wellness installation [PHF] meant to enactment the community's needs and conscionable caller statutory requirements related to the attraction of persons who are involuntarily detained who person a terrible substance usage upset oregon co-occurring intelligence wellness conditions.
Fresno County says its archetypal task volition adhd 16 inpatient beds to the PHF.
Their 2nd task proposes gathering a caller 16-bed psychiatric residential attraction installation [PRTF].
According to Fresno County, that installation volition grow the attraction continuum for young radical and supply an intensive upstream attack to attraction for those with analyzable needs.
Finally, Fresno County intends to physique a caller attraction halfway to grow capableness and maturation for outpatient attraction including urgent attraction services with same-day drop-in services to provide
additional attraction to individuals successful request of services.
The attraction center's goal, Fresno County says, is to forestall hospitalization and institutionalization.
The attraction halfway volition service younker and adults and volition beryllium centrally located and accessible to
Highway 180.
