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Skagit County asks Anacortes for $500,000 toward startup of STAR Center recovery facility
Summary
Skagit County Commissioner Lisa Janicki asked Anacortes for $500,000 on Nov. 10 to help start the STAR Center, a 48‑bed crisis‑stabilization, detox and co‑occurring treatment facility proposed as part of the countywide North Star opioid‑response initiative.
Skagit County Commissioner Lisa Janicki asked the Anacortes City Council on Nov. 10 for a $500,000 contribution toward startup costs for the STAR Center, a regional facility intended to provide crisis stabilization, withdrawal management (detox) and co-occurring treatment beds.
Janicki, representing the North Star county‑city initiative, said the STAR Center will have three units of 16 beds each and form part of a continuum of care that includes short-term bridge housing and recovery/transitional housing. "We will be asking the Anacortes City Council for half a million dollars to go toward the start up cost of that STAR Center so that we can get this thing started for Skagit County," Janicki said.
Why it matters: County and city leaders are asking municipalities to pool opioid-settlement proceeds to create services that are expensive to launch and that individual cities have said they cannot afford alone. Janicki…
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