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LINC model seen as promising but stalled by housing and unclear Trueblood grant status
Summary
County committee members said the LINC (Link) model requires respite and temporary supportive housing that Whatcom County currently lacks, and that a Trueblood grant the county received was derailed when a partner agency could not fulfill its role.
Whatcom County's Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force Legal and Justice Systems Committee discussed April 8 whether to pursue a Seattle-style LINC model for justice-involved residents, but members said the model cannot move forward without a housing component.
Caleb (committee member) described the LINC model's housing needs: "the LINC model comes with 2 forms of housing. There's, a respite housing and then there's temporary supportive housing. And…
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