Shasta County supervisors voted 4-1 on March 24 to commit $1,920,506 in opioid-settlement money as local match funding for Family Dynamics Resource Center’s Pathways to Leadership Campus Expansion Project, a proposed 60-bed youth behavioral health campus in Anderson.
According to the board meeting video, the funding action was paired with a budget amendment for the project. The campus proposal, as presented to the board, would include crisis residential care, adolescent substance use treatment, transitional care and counseling services.
The board’s approval came after supervisors questioned licensing, security, the populations the facility would serve and whether the campus could operate safely without a locked model. The item was approved with the understanding that further support from the City of Anderson and from law enforcement or probation would still be needed, and county executive staff were authorized to revise the support letter accordingly.
The project is tied to California Department of Health Care Services behavioral health infrastructure funding and was presented as part of Family Dynamics Resource Center’s broader effort to expand services for youth in eastern Shasta County.