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Pearl Youth Residence, one of four Children’s Long-term Inpatient Program sites in Washington, is scheduled to close at the end of November. The Tacoma facility provided inpatient psychiatric care for youth.
“We really toiled over this decision for a long time,” said Chris Gleason, the chief communications and community affairs officer for Comprehensive Life Resources, the nonprofit that runs Pearl Youth. “We’ve never closed a program of this scale, and we just did not take it lightly at all.”…