The ASC Charitable Foundation’s $5 million capital campaign to renovate the East Los Angeles campus is more than a facility upgrade—it’s a scalable model for system transformation.
By re-engineering an existing facility, once a convalescent hospital into a therapeutic, human-centered environment, ASC demonstrates how thoughtful design can immediately improve client engagement, reduce crises, and ease staff burden.
This approach offers broad applicability across California’s mental health system, where most residential beds exist in outdated settings that could be adapted using similar principles. The economic impact is substantial: this model reduces reliance on emergency and forensic services while advancing the goals of the Mental Health Services Act by delivering whole person care and effective, community-based wraparound services.
Renovating rather than rebuilding preserves capacity, enhances outcomes, and establishes a fiscally responsible path forward for mental health recovery.
The redesign integrates: therapeutic gardens, animal-assisted care zones, quiet reflection areas, and vibrant creative spaces—all engineered to support autonomy, dignity, self-determined, involvement and recovery.
This forward thinking design expands access to holistic therapies, increases capacity and models a new standard in mental health recovery. Our finished plans reimagine a model of human centered care featuring therapeutic paces, gardens, animal assisted zones, quiet reflection areas and vibrant art zones. Link to blueprints and costs here.
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Evidence shows that healing environments reduce behavioral crises, increase treatment engagement, and lead to better long-term outcomes. But most mental health facilities remain sterile, outdated, and uninspiring.
This project isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s about building a system that works. A space where recovery feels possible, people feel safe, and healing becomes sustainable. We’re showing California and the country that you don’t have to rebuild from scratch to create something revolutionary.
