Does a Neighborhood in Crisis Need a Crisis Center?

Back in 2023, voters approved a $1.25 billion property-tax levy to create, fund, and run five 24/7 fully-staffed crisis centers, or places anyone, including the uninsured, could go for their mental health and substance disorder needs. The first opened in Kirkland last August. King County plans to open three more centers like it by 2030, and another center focused on youth.by Nathalie GrahamMolly Moon Neitzel, owner of Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream, was sitting next to fellow disgruntled