SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash — Spokane County is putting the finishing touches on designs for a new recovery center aimed at helping people in mental health and addiction crises.
Spokane County’s new PATH (Spokane County Prevention, Assessment, Treatment, and Healing) Diversion and Recovery Center is expected to be built near the courthouse at the corner of Cedar and Boone. The county is currently working to tear down an existing building there to expand the Stabilization Center to include the new center.
Right now, Spokane County’s regional behavioral health staff say law enforcement often has limited options when someone is experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis. That can mean arrests, long waits in the emergency room, or repeated calls for the same individuals. The PATH center changes that…