{"id":242247,"date":"2025-10-22T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/242247\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:32:08","slug":"mcguire-announces-6-million-in-state-funding-for-local-mental-healthcare-facilities-at-press-conference-yesterday-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/242247\/","title":{"rendered":"McGuire Announces $6 Million in State Funding for Local Mental Healthcare Facilities at Press Conference Yesterday | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lostcoastoutpost.com\/loco-media\/loco-media\/blog\/post\/43532\/mcguire.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6487792b8817b78be4c31d8e189f839d.webp.webp\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"featurephoto-caption\">Senator Mike McGuire at yesterday\u2019s press conference.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUSLY<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n###<\/p>\n<p>Large state investments for two mental healthcare facilities coming to Eureka and Arcata were announced by State Senator Mike McGuire at a press conference yesterday, totaling over $6 million for the Mad River Triage Center and the Sorrel Leaf Healing Center<\/p>\n<p>The Mad River Triage Center will be a \u201ccrisis stabilization, sobering, and crisis residential center\u201d with beds for 43 patients when it opens in 2027 on Mad River Hospital\u2019s campus in Arcata. McGuire said yesterday that the state has earmarked $5.5 million for the project, which will break ground next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest addition to past rounds of funding for the project, which also received $12.3 million from the California Department of Health Care Services in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, McGuire said the state was granting $750,000 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorrelleaf.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sorrel Leaf<\/a> Healing Center near Indianola, a 12-bed, 13-acre \u201ctherapeutic farm\u201d for youth experiencing mental health issues. It\u2019s set to open in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McGuire and other local officials highlighted the \u201cdesperate need\u201d Humboldt has for expanded behavioral health services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality has overwhelmed local emergency rooms and providers for years,\u201d McGuire said. \u201c[There\u2019s an] increased number of homeless on our streets because there\u2019s simply nowhere to go. There aren\u2019t enough services. This is incredibly personal to me; it choked up my family. My family has seen addiction firsthand\u2026From Westhaven to Weott, people in our community desperately need health care that\u2019s appropriate, that\u2019s comprehensive and effective, and treats patients in crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Senator Mike McGuire at yesterday\u2019s press conference. ### PREVIOUSLY &#13; &#13; ###&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-242247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}