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Community Detox and Crisis Center
Project Summary:
The Boise City/Ada County Housing Authority in collaboration with Idaho Health and Welfare Department, the Cities of Boise, Meridian and Eagle, Ada County, United Way of Treasure Valley, Saint Alphonsus and St. Luke’s Regional Medical Centers, and other non-profit organizations has committed to developing a medically monitored community detoxification facility. The anticipated scope of the facility is threefold:
- A sobering station that will act as a safe environment for people whose impairment due to intoxication is judged to put themselves and the greater community at risk
- An 18-bed detoxification facility in which the average length of stay will be 3 to 5 days to stabilize chronic addict's/alcoholic's physical condition and to afford medically monitored care during this process
- An 8 bed, sub-acute psychiatric crisis stabilization unit intended for a similar duration designed to address psychiatric instability and when warranted divert expensive acute psychiatric hospitalization
The facility will have the ability to expand to a 48-bed capacity, and will be approximately 8,700 square feet. The site selected for the facility is located on approximately 1.4 acres, 320 N. Allumbaugh St., Boise Idaho.
Funds to construct the facility where accumulated by grants received from Boise City (CDBG), Idaho Health and Welfare Department and Federal Appropriations. In addition to the grants, donations given by the Albertsons Foundation, Ada County and United Way of Treasure Valley helped to secure funding for design and construction.
The Housing Authority will design, build and own the detoxification facility on property donated by Boise City. The Project’s target client group is non-incarcerated low-to-moderate income individuals needing detoxification due to substance abuse and/or stabilization from a sub-acute psychiatric crisis.
Currently the Housing Authority is procuring for a Design Professional with construction planned to commence by November 2008 and operations of the facility starting August 2009.
Note: The above drawing is the one of the proposed conceptual elevations of the Detox Building and not the final elevation drawing. Hummel Architects PLLC has been retained as the Project Architect. Greg Allen of Hummel Architects will be the Principal in Charge. Currently, this project is in the design phase and the floor plans should be completed within the next few weeks. Procurement for the General Contractor is excepted in mid-September with construction to commence early November.
Richard Bouge
Development/Construction Manager
Boise City/Ada County Housing Authority
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