Cowlitz Family Health Center

K Kaut

Just left after 3 wks there. I worked for four months to get treatment there after detoxing @ Ranier Springs twice. If you are into punishment this is the place for you. Ticketing will be on your radar....more than recovery. Very class based environment. Staff treat you like damaged goods. You have to keep your dirty hands off of things. Residents brought the covid in not staff. You are survailed/monitored every moment. Jail is easier....at least in jail you are not forced to listen to christian " patriot" music and grovel for a meal that sucks.

Michael McGee

(Dont remove post) My personal experience at the Cowlitz Family health Center(Tuotle river campus) was a disaster. Ill start off by saying its a beautiful campus except its a level 3.5 facility and in the past history I learned the staff could not manage to prevent and handle the use of drugs from patience within their facility. What they did to stop that was by cutting off any freedom to walk the campus or smoke without any staff present and supervising, along with the fact there is no family visiting if they come to drop off anything you may not speak with them or staff gives you a ticket which is discaplinary action(rather not speak about their ticket system lol). There is girls at this campus but due to past history as well they've cut off any interaction with females so the girl and guys run on separate schedules . Theres endless amount of rules mostly they've made them up through out the years . If your looking for consistency, structure, support and a positive environment then this IS NOT YOUR PLACE . The Covid-19 virus has made it to where you have to wear a facemask at all time except in your room, you get 2 warnings and on your 3rd one your kicked out ... Also the facility is under staffed so smoke breaks arent consistent as it should be due to the schedule . There is only 2-3 groups a day and most of the time the counselers wont make it on time or at all. What really bugged me the most was for the most part we as a group would have so much time to sit around and do nothing because the facility doesnt go by schedule and it always changes so look forward to being bored and sitting around doing NOTHING . Good luck if you decide to go there !