California Breaks Ground on a New Modesto Youth Behavioral-Health Center — a >$5M BHCIP Award and a Rare Central Valley Infrastructure Win
On June 10, 2026 the state celebrated the groundbreaking of a new outpatient behavioral-health center in Modesto, built by the nonprofit Center for Human Services with a state award of more than $5 million from the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) and the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI).
The facility will expand youth and family mental-health and substance-use services in Stanislaus County — a Central Valley county whose safety net is under acute budget pressure. The org is a youth/family services nonprofit, not a federally qualified health center, so the FQHC connection is indirect: it adds community behavioral-health capacity that FQHC care teams refer into, and it is a notable positive counterweight to the wave of Proposition 1 / BHSA-era peer-support and wellness-center closures the tracker has logged this spring (Redding's Sunrise Mountain, Lodi, Lake County's Big Oak / Circle of Native Minds).
In a year dominated by funding cliffs and clinic closures, a new BHCIP-funded youth BH facility breaking ground is the kind of capacity-building investment worth marking — the BHCIP build-out continues even as operating dollars tighten.
Key takeaways
- Center for Human Services broke ground June 10 on a Modesto youth/family BH center with a >$5M state BHCIP/CYBHI award — new safety-net behavioral-health capacity in a budget-stressed Central Valley county.
- A positive counterweight to this spring's Prop 1 / BHSA-era BH closures — the BHCIP build-out continues even as operating dollars tighten; FQHC care teams gain a referral destination.
Primary source
CA CYBHI / California Health & Human ServicesFQHC Talent. (2026, June 10). California Breaks Ground on a New Modesto Youth Behavioral-Health Center — a >$5M BHCIP Award and a Rare Central Valley Infrastructure Win. Primary source: CA CYBHI / California Health & Human Services. Retrieved June 13, 2026, from https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/modesto-bhcip-youth-behavioral-health-groundbreaking-june-2026
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