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County awarded $21 million for mental health facility in Paso Robles

January 29, 2026

By KAREN VELIE

The state recently awarded San Luis Obispo County a $21,639,180 grant for a proposed mental health facility in Paso Robles.

The funds will be used to purchase and renovate an existing facility in Paso Robles that will offer a comprehensive range of behavioral health services and resources to youth and adults. The new 16-bed facility is slated to open in fiscal year 2028-2029.

Known as Pathways Home, the project will address gaps in mental health and substance use disorder services for youth and adults. Of the 16 beds, 12 are for adults and four are for youth.

The first adult crisis residential treatment program in SLO County which will offer short-term support to community members navigating through a mental health crisis. The Paso Robles facility is expected to reduce out-of-county placements, especially for local youth who need crisis services.

“We are very excited to be awarded these competitive grant funds,” says County’s Behavioral Health Director Dr. Star Graber, PhD., LMFT. “This expansion allows us to respond more promptly to mental health crises and promote health equity across San Luis Obispo County ensuring that North County community members and others can access critical services in our County.”

 


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Badly needed services- turned into another scam!

Such an unbelievably bad return on investment – it has to be intentional.

40 years ago I was lucky enough to be involved in Transitions – a San Luis Obispo based, grassroots non- profit that helped serve the needs of many mental health suffers. They rented facilities and homes. Salaries and budgets were tight but it worked. Many were served and lives were saved on a shoestring.

Now everything like this is a disgusting “ jobs” program with most of the money going to the top.

Like the hospital remodel reported here earlier, this is about creating assets. Moving money around.

That they want to buy and renovate and it will take 2 to 3 years to complete for 16 beds tells you all you need to know.

Indefensible!


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In the 1980s, there was a commune called Roandoak off Highway 1 near Morro Bay that took in lots of homeless people, druggies and mentally ill people. They too operated on a shoestring with no government money, and the residents had to work, either on their fishing boats or around the property, and attend church every night. Social Services would “look the other way” and dump people off there. I don’t know what happened to it, but they kept a lot of these people off the streets at no cost to the community.


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No wonder fraud is rampant our state can’t wait to give our movie away.


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More unstable junkies downtown in Kris Beal’s district


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Dr. Star Graber, not Money Graber, ya, well ok. Maybe I should change my name to Ivan Noah Sunnyfield then apply for a pot farm grant. You just can’t make this stuff up.


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That’s only $1,352,448 per bed, yeah, that sounds like a government project. Easy to see why our state is broke.


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