Saturday Special: WA Veterans push for mental health resources, a trans athlete debate in western WA, and finding the right Seattle day camp for children with disabilities

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🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today, we’re bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom… Travis Decker, a Wenatchee resident and military veteran, is accused of killing his three young daughters outside Wenatchee. Veterans in the Wenatchee Valley are asking for increased mental health services, to prevent the next tragedy. The small town of Quilcene, tucked away in the Olympic Peninsula, is being divided by national politics. Quilcene is the first school district in Washington to ban trans athletes - even though there are no trans athletes trying to compete. And for a lot of families, day camps provide critical summer childcare for parents, and a chance for kids to play outdoors and learn new skills. But for kids with disabilities, welcoming day camps can be hard to find around Seattle.

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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. Hey, good morning. Paige Browning here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today we're
0:32.3	bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom. We'll start with a story on veterans' mental health through the lens of one of
0:39.2	Washington's most high-profile manhunts. This story includes discussions of murder and suicide. Please take care while
0:47.1	listening. Travis Decker, a Wenatchie resident and military veteran, is accused of killing his three
0:53.9	young daughters outside
0:55.1	Wenatchi.
0:56.0	He remains at large despite a massive manhunt.
0:59.4	People close to him have raised questions about whether he had adequate mental health
1:02.8	care before the murders.
1:04.5	And veterans in the Wenatchie Valley are asking for increased mental health services to prevent
1:09.3	the next tragedy.
1:13.6	Elish O'Neill has this story from Wenatchie.
1:24.6	Lots of veterans saw Travis Decker in the weeks before he's believed to have murdered his daughters.
1:27.9	He was homeless and staying at the Wenatchie National Guard Building, and he was looking for help. Rob Bates is a mental health counselor for veterans and
1:33.4	is himself a combat veteran. He saw Decker walking out of the Grant County Veterans Services
1:38.6	office just a couple weeks before the murders. So he was trying to engage services. We just didn't have the services that he needed.
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