Victoria County has received $20,000,000 from Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of the project to build the first new ground-up mental/behavioral health facility our area has seen in years. Site work is ongoing at the location adjacent to Victoria Regional Airport for the Victoria County Mental & Behavioral Health Facility, which is projected to cost approximately $40,000,000.

“As with creating our regional public defenders office, constructing a ground-up mental and behavioral health facility is filling a very real need for people in our area. It’s excellent to see dirt being moved on this project, and we are highly appreciative of all the support we’ve received from the state in this effort, particularly our dedicated State Senator Lois Kolkhorst. This is a project that committed people have been working on for some time to move from the drawing board to blueprints to becoming a reality. This twenty million we’ve received from HHS will help move another major County initiative forward,” Victoria County Judge Ben Zeller stated.