Behavioral Health Facilities Program grants establish new behavioral health service capacity through acquisition, renovation or new construction of real property.
Our program may fund nonprofits, for-profit businesses, public entities, or Tribes that are community hospitals or community-based behavioral health providers.
Funded projects must be able to meet all applicable licensing and certification requirements under specific RCWs and WACs pertaining to the behavioral health services proposed in the facilities to which the funding will be applied.
Funding availability
Our program opens competitive and non-competitive funding rounds for behavioral health facility capital projects as funding is made available in the state capital budget.
The Legislature appropriated the following funding in the 2024 supplemental capital budget:
Commerce will be accepting applications for capital projects to prevent the closure of existing behavioral health facilities. This funding will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are exhausted with no funding cap up to $8,417,863.
Funding is provided solely for grants to community providers to prevent the closure of existing behavioral health facilities. Funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis to qualifying project proposals that satisfy the goal of long-term preservation of behavioral health facilities.
For more information, see the Notice of Funding Opportunity (PDF) and program guidelines under the Resources section (Reports, guidelines and information).
To apply, please access ZoomGrants
- Starting February 19, 2025, from 9:00 a.m.
Resources
Department of Health
The Washington State Department of Health licenses and regulates inpatient and outpatient behavioral health agencies that may be certified to provide mental health, substance use disorder, problem gambling and gambling disorder services (ineligible for funding), or any combination of these types of services.
For more information, see our program guidelines (Reports, guidelines and information) and the following fact sheets and websites published by the Washington State Health Care Authority:
- Crisis triage/stabilization facilities (PDF)
- Evaluation and treatment facilities
- Intensive behavioral health treatment facilities
- Peer respites
- Opioid treatment programs
- Secure withdrawal management stabilization facilities (PDF)
Department of Social & Health Services
The Washington State Department of Social and Health licenses and oversees enhanced services facilities and assisted living facilities.
Our program may fund ESFs and ALFs with specified contracts – Enhanced Adult Residential Care in combination with Community Stability Support or Specialized Dementia Care Program.
For more information, please see our program guidelines (Reports, guidelines and information).
Department of Health
Contact Dan Overton, Residential Treatment Facility/Psychiatric Hospital Program Manager by email at Dan.Overton@doh.wa.gov for guidance on behavioral health facilities licensed by the Department of Health.
Health Care Authority
Contact HCABHFacilities@hca.wa.gov for reimbursement rate information for behavioral health facilities licensed by the Department of health.
Department of Social and Health Services
Contact ResourceDevelopment@dshs.wa.gov for guidance on behavioral health facilities licensed by the department of Social and Health Services.