SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has released a supplemental online dashboard that will chronicle the ongoing progress from more than $230 million in behavioral health investments.
The emerging capacity was funded through legislation in 2021, that is projected to create more than 1,000 behavioral health housing units and residential treatment beds by the end of 2025.
OHA distributed these funds to providers over the past two years to bolster behavioral health housing and residential treatment throughout the state.
This dashboard spotlights the two recent major behavioral health housing funding streams.
It is an offshoot of the Behavioral Housing and Treatment dashboard that was unveiled last November.
When completed, the projects will increase the state’s behavioral health housing capacity by about 20 percent.
The dashboard will track two separate funding streams:
- Approximately $100 million in grants awarded to every Oregon county. And approximately $130 million awarded to statewide social service providers.
- Together those revenues will yield nearly 500 residential treatment beds and more than 550 behavioral health housing units.
Residential treatment beds are licensed by the state and are round the clock services and supports for people with chronic behavioral health challenges. Behavioral health housing units are not licensed by the state and serve as transitional settings from people experiencing homelessness to stable housing.
The new supplemental dashboard details spending by funding source and by county, along with timelines, projected outcomes and populations being served.
The earlier dashboard includes the full portfolio of behavioral housing investments. Those include the investments highlighted in the new dashboard, along with new funding sources such as Measure 110, and historical investments.
Timelines for such projects can typically take years to complete because of the complexities of acquiring sites, building expenses and other construction-related factors. The calculations include development costs such as purchasing real estate, facility renovations, not operating revenues.
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