Compassionate Addiction Treatment

Compassionate Addiction Treatment (CAT) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3).

Our Mission:

To provide compassionate, holistic care to people suffering from substance use disorders in a safe and therapeutic environment.  Focused on removing barriers to treatment, people will be empowered to engage in recovery and live life to it’s fullest potential.

Our Vision:

Our vision is to create a treatment center in the downtown Spokane area, focused on street outreach to those who are chronically homeless, suffering from substance use disorders. By engaging with our unhoused, vulnerable community members in downtown Spokane, who may suffer with substance use disorders, we will help people reconnect with community and enter recovery.  We will be the only treatment center in the Spokane area that focuses on community first.

We believe that people living with the disease of addiction are faced with pain every day.  Pain from not having the drug and experiencing withdrawals, pain due to the activities done to acquire the drug, pain from the reaction and responses towards them from family and community, pain from trauma that may have occurred earlier in life and at minimal, trauma that has occurred while in active use of substances.  Due to this pain, relationships with family, friends and community has been fractured. A person finds themselves often feeling hopeless and disconnected. Our goal is to create a community that helps to heal this pain and reconnect with community.  Trauma informed care will be used in all aspects of our work.

In building a Recovery Community based on the core values of respect, kindness, compassion, empathy, and inclusivity, our community members can reconnect, and begin to feel hopeful that life can be better.  That they can be better. Based on research, peer leaders and peer support improve outcomes in the recovery from substance use disorders. Tapping into this will better support our clients and help them reconnect with community, as well as with hope.

Medication for Addiction Treatment, Intensive Outpatient and Outpatient programs, Case Management and Life Skills classes, Work Experience Progam, will be available for clients to engage in, when, and if they choose to.  By putting our client’s in charge of their own recovery, each client will be empowered to choose the recovery path that feels right to them. Engagement and success are improved due to true person-centered, trauma informed care.