Aaron Johnson pictured during his most recent stay at Eastern State Hospital. with our Catholic Charities clients.” McCann is referring to a new $37 million psychiatric facility to be built in Spokane by next year, which could add 72 beds to Providence Sacred Heart’s 24-bed inpatient psychiatric facility for adults. Then there’s the continuous tension between law enforcement and those struggling with mental health. Every SPD officer has gone through 40 hours of crisis intervention training to learn how to recognize and interact with people in crisis, and as of July 2017, all new officers in Washington state will go through at least eight hours of the training at the basic academy. However, for people like Johnson, who’ve been in and out of jails and psychiatric wards and don’t believe they have a disease, it seems the solution must go beyond more money, more beds and more training. Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich suggests an intermediate facility where police can take people who need supervision but don’t belong in jail. “It’s sad,” Sharon Johnson says. “Because he didn’t ask for this disease.” n
SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY Explore spiritual law and hear examples that illustrate that law in action.
International speaker, Mary Alice Rose, is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science healing and a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.
“The Science of Christianity” Sunday, May 22nd, at 3:00 pm SPOK ANE VALLEY LIBR ARY 120 0 4 E. Main Ave. – Lower Level
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