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Commissioners hear regional crisis-care concerns; potential local crisis center in design
Summary
Commissioners discussed strain on mobile crisis teams and regional behavioral-health budgets; Lewis County recently opened a 16-bed crisis center and an entity is exploring bringing a similar facility to Cowlitz County (design and site review in early stages). The 988 hotline is active and receiving hundreds of calls daily.
The presiding commissioner reported on a crisis-care-continuum conference and warned that the Great Rivers Behavioral Health district (five-county) may face budget cuts that could affect crisis-care services. He said the 988 crisis hotline is operating and receiving hundreds of calls daily, and that mobile crisis-team dispatch capacity is a current challenge.
He noted that Lewis County recently opened a 16-bed crisis center that accepts clients for up to 23 hours and 59 minutes, and said an organization is in early design phases to bring a similar crisis-care facility to Cowlitz County — site options are under review. The report was informational; no formal action or commitment of county funds was recorded at this meeting.
