Six San Diego County organizations received seven grants in the first round of “shovel-ready” funding for Proposition 1, the statewide ballot measure that approved borrowing $6.4 billion to fund building more mental health and drug and alcohol treatment capacity statewide.
San Diego County’s awards, the second most in the state after Los Angeles County, total $185 million, an amount that is projected to create 350 new local treatment beds. And there is likely more to come. The first round of bond funding totaled $3.3 billion, and a second round, estimated at $800 million for “unmet needs,” is now taking applications, due Oct. 28, for announcement in the spring of 2026.
First-round awardees include:
- $50 million for a hospital-based outpatient treatment program at Palomar Health in Escondido. The program is to be housed in a 120-bed behavioral health hospital to be built in partnership with Lifepoint Health.
- $34.5 million for the San Diego Recovery Campus, an adult residential substance use treatment facility and sobering center to be built by San Diego’s McAlister Institute.
- $31.5 million for the renovation and expansion of Amity Vista Ranch, a nonprofit substance use disorder treatment facility in Vista.
- $21.8 million for a substance use recovery and treatment services facility in National City run by the County of San Diego.
- $19.9 million for a psychiatric residential treatment facility operated by Casa de Amparo, a San Marcos-based nonprofit that serves the victims of child abuse and neglect.
- $19.9 million for an inter-tribal wellness village in Pauma Valley operated by Inter-Tribal Treatment, a nonprofit collaborative effort of local tribal communities that combines modern and native mental health and wellness therapies.
- $7.9 million for children’s crisis residential care in San Diego operated by the County of San Diego.
