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Spokane region reviews dispatch protocols, plans crisis relief and sobering center co-located with stabilization campus
Summary
Spokane Regional BH ASO staff reviewed regional dispatch protocols designed to integrate 988, the regional crisis hotline (RCL), a mobile dispatch unit (MDU), and in-person crisis teams; Pioneer Human Services was named the selected provider for a planned crisis relief and sobering center targeted to open in early 2027.
Spokane Regional Behavioral Health ASO staff reviewed a draft set of regional dispatch protocols intended to coordinate 988, the regional crisis hotline (RCL), and a mobile dispatch unit that would triage and dispatch community crisis teams, Ashley Mingi, integrated behavioral health manager, said at the Spokane Regional Scribe Collaborative meeting.
Mingi said the protocols are being developed under recent state legislation that established responsibilities for Behavioral Health Administrative Service Organizations to coordinate regional crisis systems. She cited Senate Bill 6251 and House Bill 1134 as part of the statutory context for the review and said the protocols clarify roles for 988, the RCL, the mobile dispatch unit (MDU), mobile rapid response crisis teams (MRRCTs) and community-based crisis teams (CBCTs). “This dispatch protocols is really to take a look at our entire overview of our crisis response system and work out how those dispatching and how those parts are coming together,” Mingi said.
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