Father Joe’s Paul Mirabile Center downtown is shifting its approach amid staggering numbers of overdoses.
San Diego Councilmember Raul Campillo, right, shakes hands with Sarah Carreira, a doctor with Father Joe’s Villages, outside the nonprofit’s Paul Mirabile Center in downtown San Diego on July 31, 2024. At the end of this year, a four-story building downtown with hundreds of beds will stop being a traditional homeless shelter.
Officials noted Wednesday that efforts to create more detox facilities have been hindered by several factors, including red tape and the stigma sometimes attached to substance use disorders. Marisa Varond, head of the El Cajon-based McAlister Institute, said attempts to expand her nonprofit’s addiction recovery services have long run into roadblocks.
If all goes well, 45 detox beds should open up around New Year’s. The accompanying recovery program will last two weeks, and graduates can then move up a floor where there’s space for 250 men and women.
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