The facility, which will be completed in the next eight months, will offer social detox for those with substance abuse problems, beds for those needing more long-term care and crisis response teams.
Washington County Receiving Center will help offset law enforcement and health care burdens with proper care.
“For far too long, we’ve been asking our law enforcement officers to do things that are not their responsibility and put them in terrible situations,” Cox said, adding that local police often carry the burden of being mental health therapists in addition to responding to crises. “Thank you for caring, thank you for caring for people,” Cox said to the crowd of nearly a hundred. “It is the most fiscally responsible thing to do. It’s actually going to save taxpayer money and it is also the most humane thing to do. It will help people get better.”
Rather than taking someone to jail on a trespass charge, that person can instead go to the receiving center to understand his or her behavior before being punished by the law, Brooksby said.
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