Executive Summary
St’al-sqil-x/w,
[sounds like: “stall skay loogk h”] translates to mean “our people coming back
to life.” We extend the meaning that we come back to life, seeking
wellness, seeking healing from the cycles of internalized abuse. It is
also known known as the Inchelium Wellness Center (IWC), a not-for-profit,
501c3 under the U.S. Internal Revenue
Code.
The IWC
is organized to provide education, professional services and charity;
furthermore, it is formed to establish and provide a Plateau Salish,
cultural
treatment center for Native Aboriginal Peoples’ recovery from
addictions
of alcohol and other substances including the non-traditional use of tobacco
products. The IWC will begin by providing services to Native Aboriginal
Peoples of the Pacific Northwest region.
We will offer a niche service to the
Native Aboriginal community treating addictive behaviors using traditional
healing providers as well as conventional “western” clinical treatment providers
to address the inter-generational trauma and resultant cycles of learned abuse.
These cycles of learned abuse are connected from one generation to another as a
response of Aboriginal societies since so-called “discovery.”
St’al-sqil-x/w will provide intensive in-patient and intensive out-patient
services to qualifying patients. Other services
associated with these cycles of abuse include domestic violence protection,
family support, child protection services and other social services, and an
attempt to integrate successful service provisions with existing Tribal
services. Specific attention will be paid to prevention and rehabilitation
with “at risk” children and services to juveniles and their families as a curb
to or rehabilitation from delinquency and incorrigible behaviors. In
affect, we shall build into our services a “life long learning center.”
We are anticipating ground breaking in
phased construction to begin by mid 2004 with partial projected services to
commence by late 2005.
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