Client: County of Mendocino
Cost: $3,101,669
Completion: January 2022
Delivery Method: Design-Bid
Location: Ukiah, CA
Service: Design and Planning, Programming, Criteria Documentation, Agency Review and Approval
Principal-in-Charge: Eric Fadness
Senior Project Manager: DeAnn Splinter
Programmer: John Flath
Senior Project Architect: Lorenzo Lopez
Senior Project Coordinator: Jeffrey Janssen
Mendocino County Code entitled the “Mental Health Treatment Act” adopting a County Transaction (Sales) and Use Tax for the specific purpose of funding improved services, treatment and facilities for persons with mental health conditions. The facilities that the County is pursuing is a combination of a Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF), a Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU), and / or a Crisis Residential Treatment (CRT) facility. Nacht & Lewis was selected to provide planning and design services for these facilities. The Crisis Residential Treatment (CRT) facility offers social rehabilitation services in a safe, welcoming, non-institutional residential setting. The CRT shall provide a less restrictive but structured program as an alternative to hospitalization for individuals experiencing an acute psychiatric episode or crises who require 24-hour support in order to return to community living. Nacht & Lewis has completed the design planning and design of the Crisis Residential Treatment facility, which is currently in the bidding phase. The project, located in the City of Ukiah, has received a grant from the California Health Facilities Finance Authority for the construction of the facility.