Alberta.ca News Release Quadrupling Youth Beds with CASA Mental Health May 2025

Alberta’s government has an established partnership with CASA Mental Health, the province’s second-largest provider of community-based youth mental health services.

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CASA Mental Health focuses on youth who are experiencing mental health challenges that are complex but do not require treatment in an acute care setting or psychiatric hospital.  

To continue this partnership, Budget 2025 provides $47 million in capital grants to CASA Mental Health to build live-in and day program youth facilities in three new locations: Medicine Hat, Fort McMurray and Calgary. This is part of a capital commitment of $75 million over three years (2023-26), which will also support the relocation of the existing CASA House from Sherwood Park to Edmonton.

This capital grant funding will quadruple the number of CASA House beds in Alberta to about 80. Once fully operational, CASA House facilities will treat more than 300 young Albertans every year.

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May 15, 2025