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January 12, 2011
Spilydy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Remodel for Counseling Center
By Duran Bobb
Spilyay Tymoo
Beginning this month, employ
ees from the Community Coun
seling Center will temporarily
move to the Family Resources
Center. This move marks sev
eral changes that could have an
impact to those receiving ser
vices at either building.
Remodeling comes from a
$1.3 million grant through the
IHS, Caroline Cruz, Director of
Human Services, said. “We sub
mitted a grant proposal back in
2005,” Cruz said. “It was not
awarded due to lack of suffi
cient dollars to grant all requests.
They asked us a year later if
we’d still like to consider, and
we said yes.”
The last time the building was
remodeled was approximately
seven years ago, when the win
dows were replaced. Before
that, a new heater/cooling sys
tem and carpeting was installed
20 years before.
Changes in store for the his
toric building include a new main
entrance located at the
structure’s center.
There will be a new recep
tion area where the conference
room is now located. Plans in-
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The Community Counseling Center will be improved through a
grant of $1.3 million.
elude a new children’s therapy
area with an observation room,
new ADA considerations on the
first floor, and both men’s and
women’s restrooms on the first
and second floor. There will be
a kitchen in the basement, and
the exterior of the building will
be restored its original appear
ance.
“The staff has been aware of
these changes for a year now,”
Cruz said. “I hear some rum
bling, but I keep reminding
them to stay focused on the fu
ture completion.”
Without any unforeseeable
barriers, remodeling should be
complete by mid May or early
June.
For now, there will be no
change in DHS (food stamps)
within the Family Resources
building. However, after the re
modeling is complete DHS
could move to the Tribal Social
Services building. Vocational
Rehab would then move to
Community Counseling.
Cruz stresses that DHS in
Warm Springs is not closing at
all, as some tribal members had
feared.
In fact, additional services
include the opening of the
Community Prevention Re
source Center, specifically the
Community Library within the
next few months.
“This type of opportunity
u We w ill all be
experiencing some
discomfort, but once
the remodeling is
done people w ill be
pleased and w ill look
back on this as a
p a rt of history. »
Caroline Cruz
Director o f Human Services
rarely comes around,” Cruz
said. “The Health and Wellness
Center will receive a new main
tenance building, as well as the
Community Counseling Center’s
remodeling. We will all be expe
riencing some discomfort, but
once the remodeling is done
people will be pleased and will
look back on this as a part of
history.”
Elvis Bash
Don Courtney
(above), Niya
Bagley (right) and
her little brother
celebrate Elvis’s
birthday at the
Warm Springs
Community Center ji
on Saturday.
Terri Harber photos.
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