Save the Carlyle
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The person in the photo is Douggie T., who lived at the Carlyle for almost 20 years until he passed away May 6, 2017.
The Save the Carlyle Initiative is raising funds to buy the Carlyle building from its current owner who is planning on dislocating the up to 127 chronically mentally ill men and women who have found a home in the Carlyle Care Center assisted-living facility. Some of them have lived there for almost 20 years and are being asked to move out by October 31, 2017.
The human cost of the owner’s decision is tremendous, and the Save the Carlyle Initiative is speaking out for a group of people who are easily ignored and overlooked. Local social service agencies have been told to work with the residents to find new placements but, as is, there aren't enough beds in Eastern Washington. A steep increase in the homeless population is a very likely outcome, and local law enforcement, first responders, emergency rooms, and psychiatric units will carry the burden alongside the Carlyle residents and citizens of Spokane.
Dislocating these mentally ill individuals is stigmatization in its most insidious form. We are essentially being told that tearing apart a community of almost 130 individuals is not a big deal because those men and women do not have the sense to care where they live or who sits next to them in the dining-room.
Just because the residents are mentally ill does not mean that “placement” or “alternate housing” or finding them “a bed in a different facility” makes this okay. A place like the Carlyle is an organic community that has provided a sense of home and belonging to many of its residents for many years who do not have other family.
The men and women at 206 S. Post Street are our brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, our friends. They are us. And they deserve a home. So please help us to buy the Carlyle building so that the home of this very vulnerable population can be preserved.
We need $3,500 000 to purchase the 7-story building and continue to provide the services these men and women need. In case we don't reach that number, all proceeds will go toward finding another building that can accomodate a majority of the displaced residents.
For more information, go to our Save the Carlyle Facebook page. You can also read this article: https://www.inlander.com/spokane/uncertain-future/Content?oid=4036088.
The Save the Carlyle Initiative is raising funds to buy the Carlyle building from its current owner who is planning on dislocating the up to 127 chronically mentally ill men and women who have found a home in the Carlyle Care Center assisted-living facility. Some of them have lived there for almost 20 years and are being asked to move out by October 31, 2017.
The human cost of the owner’s decision is tremendous, and the Save the Carlyle Initiative is speaking out for a group of people who are easily ignored and overlooked. Local social service agencies have been told to work with the residents to find new placements but, as is, there aren't enough beds in Eastern Washington. A steep increase in the homeless population is a very likely outcome, and local law enforcement, first responders, emergency rooms, and psychiatric units will carry the burden alongside the Carlyle residents and citizens of Spokane.
Dislocating these mentally ill individuals is stigmatization in its most insidious form. We are essentially being told that tearing apart a community of almost 130 individuals is not a big deal because those men and women do not have the sense to care where they live or who sits next to them in the dining-room.
Just because the residents are mentally ill does not mean that “placement” or “alternate housing” or finding them “a bed in a different facility” makes this okay. A place like the Carlyle is an organic community that has provided a sense of home and belonging to many of its residents for many years who do not have other family.
The men and women at 206 S. Post Street are our brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, our friends. They are us. And they deserve a home. So please help us to buy the Carlyle building so that the home of this very vulnerable population can be preserved.
We need $3,500 000 to purchase the 7-story building and continue to provide the services these men and women need. In case we don't reach that number, all proceeds will go toward finding another building that can accomodate a majority of the displaced residents.
For more information, go to our Save the Carlyle Facebook page. You can also read this article: https://www.inlander.com/spokane/uncertain-future/Content?oid=4036088.
Organizer
Ursula Heflick
Organizer
Spokane, WA
