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 The
Spokane Valley Family Resource Center serves all of Northeast Washington,
including Spokane County.
Click here to view pictures of the ribbon
cutting ceremony
The Children's Home Society Family Resource Center Spokane is located
at: 2323 North Discovery Place, Spokane Valley, Washington 99216.
(Mirabeau Point)
Phone: (509) 747-4174.
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offered at the Spokane Center
Children's Home Society of Washington built its new center in Spokane
Valley after research showed that most of Spokane's projected growth
and family support needs fall in this area.However, the facility
and CHSW programs are designed to serve the entire region.
"The Family Resource Center is a regional facility/ not just
a Spokane Valley facility," stresses Wayne Rounseville, director
of the Society's Northeast Region in Spokane.
"This location puts us exactly where we need to be to ensure
access for children and families in the fastest-growing areas while
remaining easily accessible to Spokane families and those in communities
nearby.
Additionally, the Society continues to maintain offices in the
Northeast Community Center, East Central Community Center and the
West Central neighborhood to ensure ready access for children and
families living in the city of Spokane. It's a beautiful site that
we know will be a hub of family life in the region for years to
come."
The $1.6 million center is built on land donated by the Inland
Empire Paper Company. Funding came from a variety of public and
private sources, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
the Paul G. Alien Foundation, the Washington State Community Facilities
Fund, George Frederick Jewett Foundation, Spokane County traffic
mitigation, E.K. and Lillian Bishop Foundation, Westcoast Hospitality
Corporation and Wal-Mart. Rounseville
says he and his staff have big plans for the full two-acre plot,
including a childcare wing that will offer the families highest
quality early childhood education programs they can afford.
"This region has a huge unmet need when it comes to quality
early childhood education-focused child care. Meeting that need
is critical to the success of the community overall and is a high
priority for Children's Home Society," Rounseville says. The
new center is the next step in Children's Home Society of Washington's
long history of service to families in Northeast Washington. The
Society, which has been serving children and families in Northeast
Washington since 1896, established an office and service delivery
site in Spokane more than 70 years ago, offering adoption resources,
family support and intensive services for families in crisis.
"The Spokane Family Resource Center is our anchor for our
next century of service to every person touched by a child in Spokane.
And that means every single person who lives here," Rounseville
says. "This new facility belongs to the community. It's our
new home, but more important, it's your new home too. I hope everyone
will come out and help us celebrate."
Embarking on its second century of service, Children's Home Society
of Washington is Washington's oldest statewide, private, not for
profit organization serving children and families. Each year, the
Society serves more than 38,000 children and parents in communities
across the state through 38
service sites. For more information, go to www.childrenshomesociety.org.
Click here for specific services offered at the Spokane Valley
location
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