San Bernardino County to add treatment facility to reduce homelessness

To try to reduce homelessness, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors approved plans Tuesday for a $51.4 million drug treatment facility in Victorville.

Supervisors voted 5-0 without discussion to expand the county’s available options for substance-use treatment as part of the effort to keep residents battling addiction from becoming unhoused. The funding, which is sourced from a state grant, will be used to build the Comprehensive Treatment Campus at 13333 Palmdale Road in Victorville, according to county documents.

In January 2023 the county bought nine single-story buildings, totaling about 17,770 square feet, on a nearly-30 acre lot to house the new medical campus.

The facility will add 18 adult withdrawal management beds, 36 adult substance use disorder residential treatment beds, an adult outpatient clinic, a youth campus with a 14-bed Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility for adolescents, a 16-bed adolescent substance use disorder residential treatment facility, a youth and adolescent outpatient facility and a wellness center.

The funding source for the facility is the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, which California law established in 2021.

In May the board approved an agreement with Advocates for Human Potential Inc. to run the facility through June 30, 2027.

The San Bernardino County Behavioral Health and Project and Facilities Management departments are overseeing the project and will go back to the board for approval on project design and contractor bidding.