SACRAMENTO – (INT) – Millions of dollars are headed to Riverside County to help those experiencing severe mental illness and substance abuse.

Governor Newsom announced 103 million dollars in grants Monday that will add treatment beds plus an array of behavioral health services.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is reaching out to families who are caring for loved ones struggling with behavioral or mental health disorders and could be helped by the CARE Court.

CARE Court will provide Californians suffering from untreated schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders with community-based treatment, services, and housing, and is intended to serve as an upstream intervention for the most severely impaired Californians.

It was also announced that $76 million will build an innovative Behavioral Health campus in the City of Coachella.

Story Date: July 20, 2022