Redmond Press Release: It has been brought to the City's attention that our residents have recently been solicited via a telephone poll regarding a safe injection site in Redmond. This poll includes false statements. The City is not considering allowing a safe injection site in Redmond, as the poll alleges. Please be aware the poll is not sponsored by the City of Redmond. We appreciate residents alerting the City to this matter and relaying the information to us.
If you, or someone you know, does receive a call, you can report your concerns to the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC). You can find their contact information and report online at https://www.pdc.wa.gov/. The PDC has advised residents to document the call to the best of their ability and to listen for the sponsoring organization of the poll if that information is provided. They noted the sponsoring organization might not be provided until the end of the poll.
For questions and more information contact Lisa Maher, Communications & Marketing Manager, at lmaher@redmond.gov or 425-556-2427. This press release is available on www.redmond.gov.
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Redmond has NO Opioid Treatment Program. Why not? Bellevue, Bothell, Kent and Shoreline have programs ---Samshsa B. Yoder
Bob, thanks for the question. I’m the Ombudsman for the month of August.
ReplyDeleteWell, the organization in Bellevue is in Overlake (NE 140th) and is named “Therapeutic Health Services Eastside” and it does serve other Eastside cities besides just Bellevue as its name indicates.
Also, Redmond, and this is across the board for all human services, does no direct service delivery of any kind, so the city wouldn’t have a city program specifically doing this work. We rely on our community partners to fill needs of various kinds (and there are many benefactors of these organizations) and the taxpayers of Redmond back those efforts by way of the support directed to them in Redmond’s biennial budget for programs that are deemed deserving (as ranked by our Human Services Commission and approved by the City Council).
So, while there is no physical presence in Redmond, those seeking help for opioid addiction have many places to turn (HealthPoint, Hope-Link and Friends of Youth come directly to mind) to be referred to an organization that can get them the treatment they need to turn things around.
Thanks again for your question!
David