Currently, the residents of Grass Valley, Nevada City, Auburn, Colfax and the surrounding areas have only two options when it comes to mental health services. The first option is traditional outpatient, i.e., seeing a therapist, psychologist and or psychiatrist weekly or biweekly. The second option is inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, which involves the confinement in a locked facility for a number of days. This means that a large segment of the population with moderate symptoms ends up being stuck with levels of care that are either too high or too low for their current symptoms. The lack of a middle option …