Sources & Library

The library includes the Marbut report (July 2025), the Sequential Intercept mapping (Yates 2025), the Safe & Healthy Task Force final report (June 2026), county overdose and jail data, the sales-tax capacity memos, HUD NOFO funding analyses, and the spending comparisons with Wichita and Boise. Every document below is either hosted in this project's own sources/ folder or linked at its original publisher.

📚 Library — memos & documents

2026 HUD NOFO — the funding shift (SBA analysis memos)

Data — you can’t improve what you can’t measure

All Task Force publications

• 📄 Final Report — "Safe and Healthy Spokane Task Force Recommendations" (June 11, 2026, 65 pp.)
  safehealthyspokane.org/s/Safe_and_Healthy_Spokane_Recommendations_June-2026.pdf
  Mirror (verified Jul 2026): static1.squarespace.com/…/Safe_and_Healthy_Spokane_Recommendations_June+2026.pdf
• 📄 Summary One-Pager ("Okay, Four-Pager") (June 2026)
  safehealthyspokane.org/s/Safe-and-Healthy-One-Sheet.pdf
• 📄 Leifman Group Asset Assessment — Assessment of Spokane County's Behavioral Health, Homelessness, Crisis Response, and Justice Systems (Jan 8, 2026)
  safehealthyspokane.org/announcements/spokane-county-assessment2025
  Direct PDF: static1.squarespace.com/…/Assessment+of+Spokane+County's+systems.pdf
• 📄 Advisory Committees: Moving the Work Forward (~Feb 2026)
  safehealthyspokane.org/s/SH-Website-Copy-2926_letterhead.pdf
• 🎥 Assessment webinar recording (Jan 15, 2026)
  youtu.be/0vVYgnv0DeQ
• 📄 Task Force update to City Council Public Safety Committee (Mar 2, 2026)
  spokanecity.org (presentation PDF)
• 📰 Coverage: Spokesman-Review · Inlander · KHQ

Task force site: safehealthyspokane.org. Compiled July 2026.

The full shelf — every file in this project’s sources folder

Everything below is the actual research file, hosted with this project — nothing behind a login, nothing paraphrased. PDFs open in the browser; .docx and .xlsx files download.

Where the information comes from

Every number on this map traces to a source you can check. Charts name their source in the subtitle; every deep-dive box ends with a Sources tab of links; and the project keeps a running audit log. The main source families:

Federal data: HUD Point-in-Time counts, Housing Inventory Counts, and CoC award records for Spokane (WA-502); CDC provisional overdose data (VSRR county files — the basis of the live overdose dashboard and Spokane's #2 national ranking).

Washington State: DSHS/ALTSA licensing data — including the live adult-family-home layer, pulled nightly from the state's own feature service; the Health Care Authority (Ricky's Law reports, Medicaid rates); Commerce (homeless grants, Right-of-Way funds); the Administrative Office of the Courts (therapeutic-court funding, guardianship); and the RCWs themselves for every legal claim (71.05 involuntary treatment, 11.130 guardianship, 70.128 adult family homes).

County & city: Spokane County Medical Examiner annual reports (overdose deaths by year); the county jail capacity dashboard; city CHHS releases, the Longitudinal Systems Analysis, budgets, and contract records; the EWU/Whitworth/WSU "Broader Context" PIT report.

Task force & commissioned studies: all Safe & Healthy Spokane publications including the Leifman Group assessment and the June 2026 final report; the Marbut Consulting survey (July 2025, for the Spokane Business Association) and the Discovery Institute's parallel Seattle study — presented side-by-side with the PIT on the where-are-they-from question, without declaring a winner.

Primary project research: Gavin Cooley's NOFO impact memos (provider-by-provider funding analysis), the CDC overdose analysis file, and direct mayoral testimony (Boise, Portland, Houston). News record: The Spokesman-Review, Inlander, Range Media, KHQ, KXLY, Center Square, The Columbian, and InvestigateWest, cited article-by-article. National models: Miami-Dade's Criminal Mental Health Project, Houston's The Way Home, Rhode Island's jail MAT program, Tucson's Crisis Response Center, and Built for Zero.

Cost methodology: the journey Receipts use unit costs derived from Spokane's own contracts wherever possible ($53/shelter-night from scattered-site contracts, $75/night from Catalyst's budget, $25K/PSH-year from CCEW's portfolio) and mid-range state/national figures elsewhere — every assumption is listed inside each Receipt.

Data honesty — the audit conventions

⚠ marks figures still to verify; "[Audited Jul 2026]" marks verified entries. Where data doesn't exist (DCR volumes, discharge-to-street counts), the map says so — the measurement gap is treated as a finding. Where credible sources disagree (see "Where Are They From? It Depends on the Question"), both are shown without declaring a winner. All financial AND capacity figures (beds, units, dollars) are presented in tables with subtotals and totals wherever providers are enumerated. This is a living draft for review, not a final publication.

Help us get this right

By its very nature, a tool like this relies on a level of crowdsourcing — among providers, and across the whole community. Whether you’re a concerned citizen, a provider on the front lines, a person with lived experience, a policymaker, a business owner, or part of the faith community, your corrections and ideas make this picture more accurate — and a more accurate picture serves everyone. We can’t improve what we don’t understand, and that understanding lives in the community, not in any tool. The tool just helps us express it, share it, and turn it into better decisions for Spokane.

About this project

The Spokane County Continuum of Care System Map was developed by the Spokane Business Association — Gavin Cooley, President — built July 2026 and continuously updated. It exists to give every resident, provider, and elected official the same complete picture of the region's homelessness, addiction, mental health, and justice response — the shared understanding that has to precede shared action.

Status: Version 0.7, draft for review. A node-by-node audit is in progress (see AUDIT_LOG in the project folder); items marked ⚠ are awaiting verification, and entries marked [Audited Jul 2026] have been checked against primary sources.

Corrections — please make this better

If you run one of these programs and your bed count, hours, funding, or description is wrong — or if your organization is missing entirely — that is exactly the feedback this project wants. Every correction strengthens the shared picture. Corrections with a source (a contract, a license, a budget line) can be incorporated within days.

Known gaps we're still working

The full faith-community inventory (congregations, meals, volunteers); DCR investigation volumes; jail MAT coverage rates; therapeutic-court participant counts; a complete all-funds regional ledger; recovery-residence bed counts beyond Oxford House; and the Spokane-specific unit costs that would sharpen the journey Receipts. If you hold any of this data, you can shorten this list.