Pioneer Human Services will run the facility and expects to serve as many as 40 people at a time.
King County ’s sobering center will be moving to a new home, and preparations have begun to open the permanent facility where people who are living on the streets can find a safe, supportive place when they are too intoxicated to take care of themselves.
The short-stay facility will offer immediate shelter and treatment to people who are homeless, under the influence, and at risk of getting hurt if they remain on the streets. Offers of a warm bed and a helping hand have been instrumental in saving lives, as the sobering center gives people time to sleep off their stupor under medical observation.
The sobering center has been operating out of the Yesler Building up until now, and assisted more than 1,000 people last year. Before that, the program was run out of a building in South Lake Union for about two decadesIn the interim when there was no sobering center, homeless people sometimes had to be dropped of at hospital emergency rooms if they were under the influence and not allowed to enter local shelters.
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