EDMONTON — The Alberta government has announced it is providing $47 million in capital grants to CASA Mental Health to build live-in and day program youth facilities in three new locations: Medicine Hat, Fort McMurray and Calgary.
The organization focuses on youth who are experiencing mental health challenges that are complex but do not require treatment in an acute care setting or psychiatric hospital, explains a release.
This funding is also part of a commitment of $75 million over three years (2023-26), which is supporting the relocation of the existing CASA House from Sherwood Park to Edmonton. The funding will quadruple the number of CASA House beds in Alberta to about 80. Once fully operational, CASA House facilities will treat more than 300 Albertans between the ages of 12 and 18 every year, the release adds.
Currently, CASA Mental Health is in the final stages of securing land for the Fort McMurray CASA House.
That location and the Calgary CASA House are expected to open in 2027.
The targeted completion of the Medicine Hat and Edmonton CASA House facilities is 2029. The existing CASA House in Sherwood Park will continue operating until the new location opens in Edmonton.
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