FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 05/13/2025

CLARE|MATRIX Awarded Over $51 Million to Expand Lifesaving Behavioral Health Services in LA County

Santa Monica, CA — In a historic investment for community safety and behavioral health, CLARE|MATRIX has been awarded $51.1 million in Bond BHCIP Round 1: Launch Ready funding by the State of California. Governor Gavin Newsom publicly announced $3.3 billion in grant funding yesterday to build capacity for treatment beds and outpatient slots in California. This transformative support includes two grants to CLARE|MATRIX that will expand access to care for thousands of people struggling with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and homelessness.

The first award — $50.6 million — will fund the CLARE|MATRIX Pico Campus Expansion Project, a visionary initiative that will consolidate and revitalize three existing facilities along Santa Monica’s Pico Boulevard into a state-of-the-art, four-site recovery campus. Anchored by a brand-new, 90-bed building, the expanded Pico Campus will offer a seamless continuum of care across detox, residential, and outpatient treatment services.
The campus will provide:

• 15 detox beds and withdrawal management services
• 115 residential treatment beds for men and women (75 new beds)
• 60 outpatient treatment slots to serve 300 individuals annually

With this investment, CLARE|MATRIX will cement its role as the only Tier 3 provider in Service Planning Area 5 (SPA 5) offering comprehensive, integrated treatment across six levels of care for both men and women. This state-of-the-art infrastructure will provide critically needed services to put recovery back into treatment for unhoused SUD and co-occurring populations for the next thirty years and beyond.

The second grant — $460,000 — will support the Mid-City Expansion Project, upgrading the organization’s Opioid Treatment Program site at 5220 Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles. Once completed, the facility will provide Outpatient Treatment for SUD with 300 new slots projected to serve 600 individuals annually in an outpatient setting.

“This is a once-in-a-generation investment that will compassionately put recovery back into treatment for thousands of people in Los Angeles and Santa Monica,” said Matt Walton, CEO of CLARE|MATRIX. “We are deeply grateful to the people of California,Governor Gavin Newsom, Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), City of Santa Monica, Advocates for Human Potential (AHP), and the many community leaders and partners* who helped champion this vision.”

Renderings of the Pico Campus provided by Felderman Keatinge + Associates/Arcaforma

*Supporters of CLARE|MATRIX’s BHCIP funded projects include:

AADAP
California Senator, Ben Allen
California State Representative, Rick Zbur
Cedars-Sinai
LA City Mayor, Karen Bass
LA County Department of Mental Health and Department of Public Health
People Concern
Salvation Army
St. John’s Community Health
Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce
Santa Monica Mayor, Lana Negrete
Santa Monica Director of Housing and Human Services, Heather Averick
UCLA, Department of Addiction Medicine
UCLA, Dual Diagnosis Program
Venice Family Clinic

About CLARE|MATRIX

For over five decades, CLARE|MATRIX has delivered compassionate, evidence-based, life-changing treatment to some of the region’s most vulnerable residents. This bold expansion marks a new era in behavioral health care for Los Angeles — one that prioritizes recovery, dignity, and public safety for all.

CONTACT:

Shireen Ossanlo
CLARE|MATRIX
310.314.6200 x3427
sossanlo@clarematrix.org