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.