Re: “We need transparency around Broadway crisis center siting” (Sept. 22, Opinion):
Capitol Hill hosted the Seattle Psychological Well being Institute within the Seventies, and that useful resource was surrounded by dozens of residences and congregate care services that housed individuals who had psychological well being points. Many had been handled and launched by Western State Hospital.
I used to be government director of a midway home on Capitol Hill within the center ’70s that housed, fed and supported 22 ladies after hospitalization, serving to them regain extra unbiased lives. President Ronald Reagan’s cuts to human companies and the collective determination to simply medicate the mentally in poor health quite than assist the entire particular person meant that the community-based system disappeared.
Till the powers that be determine to deal with the drug addictions together with the psychological sickness which are so prevalent on this disaster, we most likely can’t get out of this mess we’re in in Seattle. Midway interventions usually are not sufficient.
Daybreak Blanch, Seattle
