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Native Project expands youth services center, highlights county gap in adolescent substance treatment
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Tony Lodge, executive director of the Native Project, described the agency's new children and youth services center, its emphasis on early trauma and substance-use treatment for adolescents, and the organization’s long community ties in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood.
Tony Lodge, executive director of the Native Project, described the nonprofit’s new children and youth services center and said the agency aims to treat trauma and substance use earlier for Spokane’s children and adolescents.
The Native Project’s clinic and youth center operate in West Central Spokane and provide medical, dental and behavioral-health services, Lodge said. He told the Spokane City Council Office’s Equity Spotlight that the center was created because the community’s demographic and health indicators show a high share of young people and an acute need for early interventions: “According to the 2020 census, 30% of our population is between the ages of 0 and 18,” Lodge said.
Lodge also told the program that Native Project runs what he described as the county’s only outpatient drug- and alcohol-treatment program for adolescents.…
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