Adult & Teen Challenge Pacific Northwest, a Milwaukie, Oregon-based nonprofit, is building a new outpatient facility at its men’s campus at 2400 N. Craig Road, on the West Plains.

The new 5,000-square-foot, one-story facility will be used in part to provide outpatient, substance-abuse treatment to the community, says Tyson West, executive director of the Spokane campus.

“If we’re at full capacity with four drug and alcohol counselors, we will be able to serve an additional 1,000 people a year through the outpatient component,” West says.

Adult & Teen Challenge provides faith-based addiction recovery services.

Despite being located on one of the nonprofit’s men’s campuses, the new outpatient facility will be available to everyone in the community, West says.

“It’s nationally accredited,” he says. “It’s fully clinical and fully biblical.”

The Spokane campus has 11 employees, seven of whom work full time. The outpatient program employs licensed counselors. The need to help more people with drug or alcohol addiction is growing exponentially, West says.

 “Overdose deaths in the state of Washington have increased 165% in the last five years,” he says.

The 32-acre Spokane campus is located at the site of an old Nike missile base, north of Airway Heights and Fairchild Air Force Base. It is one of the nonprofit’s 18 campuses in the Pacific Northwest region.

“We’ve been here since 1983, and our mission is to help people experience transformation from substance abuse and addiction through a comprehensive approach,” West says.

The new facility, which West hopes will be completed in November, also will house additional program offices and a computer lab.

In addition to the outpatient services, the Christ-centered nonprofit offers a long-term residential recovery program through which men live at the campus for a year. Vocational training and an outreach program also are components of what the nonprofit offers at the Spokane campus.

The residential program has capacity for 58 men, who are typically ages 18 to 55, West says. 

Funding for the project has mostly come in the form of contributions from people and businesses in the community.