The Union Gospel Mission Association of Spokane says it plans to break ground next month in Coeur d'Alene on a $6 million, 27,000-square-foot transitional housing and recovery-services center for women and children.

The center, tentatively named the Union Gospel Mission Kootenai County Women and Children's Recovery Center, will be built at 196 W. Haycraft, about two blocks east of U.S. 95, in north Coeur d'Alene, says Debi Pauletto, Union Gospel Mission's advancement director.

The planned complex will include a three-story, 19,000-square-foot main structure, a 3,500-square-foot rescue center, and a 4,400-square-foot warehouse and auxiliary-services building, plans show.

The main building will include 10 family bedrooms, 18 single-bed rooms, a child-care center, classrooms, a medical clinic, a kitchen, and a chapel, Pauletto says.

The rescue center will have six beds and a large day room, and the auxiliary structure will include warehouse and freezer space, as well as an exercise center, she says.

Leone & Keeble Inc., of Spokane, will be the contractor on the project, and Architects West Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, designed it.

The faith-based nonprofit bought the vacant parcel of land on which the complex will be developed last July. Pauletto says Union Gospel Mission hopes to open the center in the summer of 2012.

The center likely will hire more than 10 employees, Pauletto says. "We're relying heavily on volunteerism, too," she says.

The project is being funded through donations, and Union Gospel Mission is seeking in-kind goods and services to help defray costs, Pauletto says.

The center will focus on helping women—with or without children—recover from addictions through an 18- to 24-month residential program that also will aim to prepare them for a fresh start in society, she says.

"We will require commitments from clients who want to break the cycle of addiction and heal from wounds that helped put them in their present conditions," Pauletto says.

Union Gospel Mission provides a similar women's recovery program in Spokane at Anna Ogden Hall, at 2828 W. Mallon.

The charity offers vocational training to its recovery clients, and low-priced goods and services through UGM Motors auto sales and service outlet, at 7219 E. Sprague. It also operates thrift stores north of downtown, at 301 W. Boone, and in Spokane Valley, at 11921 E. Sprague.

Its main men's shelter is at 1224 E. Trent, where it also operates a residential recovery program, including a culinary training program.

Union Gospel Mission also owns and operates the Crisis Shelter for Women and Children, at 1234 E. Sprague; and Tshimakain Creek Camp, in Ford, Wash.