Monday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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King County's first mental health crisis center to open, former Seattle mayor Charles Royer dies, and we talk with young voters about VP Harris. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Ruby de Luna.
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
| 0:01.8 | It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
| 0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
| 0:10.7 | Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. |
| 0:17.5 | We get behind the headlines. |
| 0:19.4 | We get to the truth. |
| 0:22.8 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. |
| 0:28.1 | Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Ruby Deluna. Here are today's |
| 0:34.8 | top stories. It's Monday, July 29th. |
| 0:38.3 | A new Crisis Center for people experiencing behavioral health emergencies is opening in Kirkland. |
| 0:46.3 | Elish O'Neill has more. |
| 0:48.3 | The center has 32 inpatient beds where people can stay for up to two weeks. |
| 0:52.3 | It also has observation chairs and |
| 0:54.8 | urgent care for more acute situations. Everything is set up for people in crisis, like tactile |
| 1:00.7 | walls that patients can use for self-soothing. Morgan Matthews is with the company contracted |
| 1:06.0 | to build and operate the center. So many aspects of crisis can be so disconcerting that even having something like a tactile |
| 1:13.1 | wall, I think can really ground somebody and just help them kind of get centered and focused |
| 1:17.4 | back on being in the real world. |
| 1:19.3 | The center's operators want to become the first of King County's five behavioral |
| 1:23.1 | health crisis centers funded by a new levy. |
| 1:26.1 | Those dollars could help make the center permanent or could |
| 1:28.2 | offer training opportunities for new mental health providers. Ilyish O'Neill, KUOW News. A new program |
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