New Detox Facility and Recovery Center
45-bed Center opening in 2025 at Father Joe's Villages plus a recovery floor, to serve nearly 350 individuals
WHY DETOX? There is a gap in care for our neighbors in need.
Every night, more than 6,000 individuals in San Diego have no place to sleep. Lack of shelter beds is a pressing issue, particularly for those battling substance use disorders. Individuals seeking sobriety require a safe, stable, and sober drug and alcohol-free environment to begin their recovery and sustain their progress successfully. Without one, the outcomes are heartbreaking. In 2023 alone, upwards of 400 unsheltered individuals lost their lives to fatal overdoses and were found on the street.
Father Joe’s Villages is on the front lines of this worsening crisis and taking action with an innovative initiative. Located in the heart of East Village, our Paul Mirabile Center currently provides hundreds of shelter beds. Early in 2025, it will adapt to the changing need and house a new 45-bed inpatient detox facility, including a sober recovery floor that will house 250 of our neighbors. This puts the capacity of the program to serve nearly 350 individuals.
For 75 years, philanthropy has been Father Joe’s Villages’ greatest revenue stream. Compassionate and generous San Diegans have made us our community’s largest, longest-standing, leading, and most modeled-after homeless services provider. Their support is game-changing and again urgently needed. Join us in making our new detox facility and sober recovery shelter a reality. In partnership, we are stronger and better positioned to solve homelessness.
We cannot continue triaging people and sending them back to the streets expecting them to get better, like putting a Band-Aid over a broken bone.
We must diversify our shelter bed options so people in recovery can have somewhere to thrive and achieve the best outcomes. Everyone deserves the right to confront their substance use challenges and change their lives.
I am proud to have led the City Council in implementing essential, common-sense changes to the permitting process, allowing behavioral health providers like Father Joe’s Villages to more easily find locations to deliver their critical care.
Because of these changes, more San Diegans will be empowered to take brave steps toward recovery and reclaiming their lives.