Partners with Families and Children Spokane

Partners' behavioral health program provides outpatient substance use disorders treatment and mental health services to parenting individuals who are referred by law enforcement, Washington Department of Children, Youth, and families social workers, meidcal providers the judiciary, and/or other social service treatment providers. Frequently, these families have multiple risk factors, including chronic substance use disorders, trauma, homelessness, criminal activity, and abusive relationships. Treatment services can include assessments, individual and group counseling, child and family team coordination and an array of parent education programs that provide individuals the opportunity to develop the skills to parent effectively and help their families to thrive. Through Partners' evidence-based programs and treatment services, we create healthy families and vibrant communities by working to reunite parents with their children and providing coordinated care with compassion, dignity, and respect.

Partners' Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) is a nationally accredited center that provides a child-friendly, neutral, and safe location for child and adolescent victims and witnesses of child abuse, neglect, and other crimes to receive forensic interviews and specialized evidentiary medical examinations. CAC's work to also provide non-offending family members with support services, including crisis intervention, mental health, advocacy, and referrals to other services. Partner's CAC goal is to reduce trauma to a child-adolescent by: providing competent and quality child abuse services to child/adolescent victims. Providing on-site comprehensive specialized medical examinations. Providing quality forensic interviews to reduce the number of interviews a child/adolescent victim/witness receives. Coordinating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure the child and family receives proper services.