Tamarack Center

2901 W. Elliot Dr.
Spokane, WA 99224

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About Tamarack Center

Tamarack Center is a Non-Profit center located in Spokane, WA. Tamarack's program offers a wide variety of services for adolescents who struggle with isolation and frustration.

Tamarack’s focus is to help young people break the cycle of self-destructive behavior, low self-esteem, and emotional illness by providing intensive inpatient treatment, regular school education, and family involvement.

Tamarack Center pays particular attention to what works for each young patient installed at their facilities. This center is registered in District 81 School District, so all residents at Tamarack Center attend school on a regular basis. Depending on the resident’s treatment progress, some will participate in off-campus school to transition back into a community school.

Latest Reviews

Abby Badertscher
1 month ago on Google
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I was held here against my will for 13 months for no reason. When I expressed any emotion at all (like crying or laughing or hurting myself) I was forced to sleep and live and eat in a hallway alone for months while writing 100 page assignments with dull crayon. All while being degraded, body shamed, sexuality shamed, starved, grabbed, sexually assaulted, etc. I was offered no therapy during these times and the entire staff and other kids were told not to speak to me or look at me. They have male nurses watch you shower naked if you're suicidal and never check in to make sure they're doing their job. This was 3 years ago and I am still trying to sue them for the PTSD they caused. I have a 6 month old and don't need any of the drugs they were forcing me to take. If your child is in this place SAVE THEM. They monitor your calls and emails so we can't ask you to help us and if you try they will get the court involved and lie about your mental state to keep you and punish you. I cant be in a room with the door closed for more than 5 minutes still because those people ruined me. They forced me to walk on a broken ankle and now I have to go to physical therapy for probably the rest of my life because my foot and hips are all jacked up now. The people in this place pick and choose favorites and I was chubby and gay at the time so I was not one of them.
Tania
1 month ago on Google
1
Establishment only stands because it is government funded and kids basically are given a free for all. I will be back to update review once place is finally flagged and investigated. DO NOT SEND YOUR LOVED ONE HERE.
Russell Colmore
3 months ago on Google
5
Absolutely changed my life and made me the man and father I am today! It's fantastic to see Longshore still "chiselled" on the website!

Location

Accepted Insurance

Tamarack Center works with several private insurance providers and also accepts private payments when possible, please contact to verify your specific insurance provider.

Other Forms of Payment

Private insurance refers to any kind of healthcare coverage that isn't from the state or federal government. This includes individual and family plans offered by an employer or purchased from the Insurance Marketplace. Every plan will have different requirements and out of pocket costs so be sure to get the full details before you start treatment.

Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.

Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance for those 65 and older. It also serves people under 65 with chronic and disabling health challenges. To use Medicare for addiction treatment you need to find a program that accepts Medicare and is in network with your plan. Out of pocket costs and preauthorization requirements vary, so always check with your provider.

Military members, veterans, and eligible dependents have access to specific insurance programs that help them get the care they need. TRICARE and VA insurance can help you access low cost or no cost addiction and mental health treatment. Programs that accept military insurance often have targeted treatment focused on the unique challenges military members, veterans, and their families face.

Financial aid can take many forms. Centers may have grants or scholarships available to clients who meet eligibility requirements. Programs that receive SAMHSA grants may have financial aid available for those who need treatment as well. Grants and scholarships can help you pai for treatment without having to repay.

Medicaid is a state based program that helps lower-income individuals and families pay for healthcare. Medicaid covers addiction treatment so those enrolled can use their coverage to pay for rehab. When a program accepts Medicaid the client often pays very little or nothing out of their own pocket.

Addiction Treatments

Levels of Care

outpatient iconOutpatient
Outpatient Programs (OP) are for those seeking mental rehab or drug rehab, but who also stay at home every night. The main difference between outpatient treatment (OP) and intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) lies in the amount of hours the patient spends at the facility. Most of the time an outpatient program is designed for someone who has completed an inpatient stay and is looking to continue their growth in recovery. Outpatient is not meant to be the starting point, it is commonly referred to as aftercare.
inpatient iconInpatient
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.
24-hour icon24-Hour Clinical Care
At certain points in the recovery process, it's important to have support available 24/7. 24-hour clinical care offers a safe environment in which to recover from drug or alcohol addiction in peace, knowing medical detox and other treatment will happen with professionals on hand.
12-step icon12-Step
12 step programs support participants' psychological, spiritual, and emotional development as integral to sustained recovery. Though 12 step recovery programs are based on the belief in a non-denominational higher power, religious affiliation is not required. Group meetings are paper-led, anonymous, free, and available daily, including on holidays, in most communities. Peer sponsors selected by the participants provide one-on-one coaching and support. Specialized formats are widely available, including programming for youth, seniors, and families.

Treatments

Mental health rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and more. Mental health professionals at these facilities are trained to understand and treat mental health issues, both in individual and group settings.

Programs

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Teen Program
Teen programs are designed to address the unique pressures teens face, pressures that can drive them to experiment with dangerous, addictive substances. They need programs that meet them exactly where they are and give them tools for long-term recovery. Therapy can help teenagers understand and work through underlying issues so they can reclaim the life ahead of them.
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Child Program
The providers who specialize in the children's rehab space understand the specialized needs that this population faces. School-based and social services such as tutoring and family counseling are often central to treatment. Child programs may also address the needs of youth experiencing substance abuse in the home, including a parent's or sibling's addiction.
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Program For Men
Men face specific challenges and concerns when seeking addiction treatment. Gender-specific recovery programs help them tackle these issues head-on in an environment that's focused, targeted, and distraction-free. It also gives them the opportunity to connect with and learn from other men who have been through a similar journey and can offer support for the next step.
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Program For Women
Rehabs for women provide a safe, nurturing space for female clients to heal. These treatment programs consider the specific obstacles that women can face during recovery and place a special emphasis on mental, social, physical, and reproductive health. They explore how each woman's experience has shaped the trajectory of their substance use, addressing issues such as sexual abuse and past trauma.
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LGBTQ Program
Recovery is most successful when clients feel accepted and validated by their peers and treatment providers. Facilities that offer LGBTQ-inclusive programming are committed to creating a safe space where everyone can grow and recover without fear of judgment or discrimination. They will have dedicated policies in place to create a safe and supportive environment that fosters free expression.

Clinical Services

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.

Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Fitness therapy blends exercise with psychotherapy for a fun, inspiring, and effective way of treating addiction and other issues. By incorporating movement into counseling sessions, clients become more empowered, motivated, and goal-oriented, all while strengthening their bodies and becoming more flexible. Fitness Therapy is usually used to complement a course of treatment (inpatient or outpatient) to make it even more successful. Increasing the connection between a patient’s mind and body helps both with healing as well as in creating new, healthy habits.

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Life skills trainings involve all the skills a person must have in order to function successfully in the world. These include time management, career guidance, money management, and effective communication. Truly successful addiction recovery is based on the ability to not only live substance-free, but to thrive. Life skills teaches the practical necessities of functioning in society, which sets clients up for success in life, and therefore sobriety.

Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health.

Recreational therapy (aka therapeutic recreation) uses creative and fun activities to help with addiction recovery. Recreational therapists lead patients in entertaining and engaging activities like sports or games; art (drawing, painting, sculpture); drama, music, and dance; and/or community outings (field trips) to improve patients' physical, social, and emotional well-being.

Often, substance use disorder originates with negative thinking patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy in Washington is designed to help individuals change these patterns of thought, which leads to changes in behavior and freedom from addiction.

Clinicians who apply motivational interviewing techniques engage with their clients as equal partners. This method avoids warnings and confrontation and instead allows clients to analyze their situation and explore their options. This technique is often used when the client feels unsure about their ability or desire to change.

Amenities

  • wilderness iconWilderness Setting
  • home-setting iconResidential Setting
  • basketball iconBasketball Court
  • recreation iconRecreation Room
  • private-room iconPrivate Rooms
  • pool iconSwimming Pool
  • hiking iconHiking
  • weight iconGym
  • building1 iconDay School

Accreditations

The Joint Commission, formerly known as JCAHO, is a nonprofit organization that accredits rehab organizations and programs. Founded in 1951, the Joint Commision's mission is to improve the quality of patient care and demonstrating the quality of patient care.

Joint Commission Accreditation: Yes
Accreditation Number: 1298

Contact Information

Phone icon (800) 736-3410
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2901 W. Elliot Dr.
Spokane, WA 99224

Reviews of Tamarack Center

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We sent our daughter to Tamarack after a stay at a higher level Residential care. She was at risk for cutting and suicidal ideation. In the higher level Residential care she had been going through a specific type of treatment -- it was working! and we were told that they wou ... Read More

Reviewed on 7/16/2019
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Tamarack Center was very useful for my recovery process, they were amazing in all time, the therapists are helpful, incredible service!

Reviewed on 3/6/2019
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3.1 (29 reviews)
Abby Badertscher
1 month ago
1

I was held here against my will for 13 months for no reason. When I expressed any emotion at all (like crying or laughing or hurting myself) I was forced to sleep and live and eat in a hallway alone for months while writing 100 page assignments with dull crayon. All while being degraded, body shamed, sexuality shamed, starved, grabbed, sexually assaulted, etc. I was offered no therapy during these times and the entire staff and other kids were told not to speak to me or look at me. They have male nurses watch you shower naked if you're suicidal and never check in to make sure they're doing their job. This was 3 years ago and I am still trying to sue them for the PTSD they caused. I have a 6 month old and don't need any of the drugs they were forcing me to take. If your child is in this place SAVE THEM. They monitor your calls and emails so we can't ask you to help us and if you try they will get the court involved and lie about your mental state to keep you and punish you. I cant be in a room with the door closed for more than 5 minutes still because those people ruined me. They forced me to walk on a broken ankle and now I have to go to physical therapy for probably the rest of my life because my foot and hips are all jacked up now. The people in this place pick and choose favorites and I was chubby and gay at the time so I was not one of them.

Tania
1 month ago
1

Establishment only stands because it is government funded and kids basically are given a free for all. I will be back to update review once place is finally flagged and investigated. DO NOT SEND YOUR LOVED ONE HERE.

Russell Colmore
3 months ago
5

Absolutely changed my life and made me the man and father I am today! It's fantastic to see Longshore still "chiselled" on the website!

courtney Young
3 months ago
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Jes Churchman
5 months ago
1

Bottom line, if you're looking for a place to help your child, this isn't it. Period. This place is the stuff they make documentary expose movies in 10-20 years. The only reason this place is still open is the fact that so few places for people under 18 exist in Washington State. It is a mockery of rehabilitative behavioral medicine, or any kind of medical practice, behavioral health or otherwise for that matter.In my experience with this facility, several laws were broken repeatedly, both against the children and basic standards of practice of the facility itself. The bathrooms (when working) and kitchen were disgusting with cockroaches running around the place, and a massive spider problem. There is not adequate space or facilities for the volume of children they house. I would estimate 85% of the staff were woefully unprofessional, under educated/trained and showed extreme prejudice toward certain children and parents. Please note, this was far beyond the compassion fatigue we are all aware of.They allow non custodial guardians to check children into treatment without authorization, they do not check if these adults are legally able to do so (court orders, etc). In WA Minors have the right to determine their own care at 14, which makes it problematic when they refuse a self checkout, for a stay that wasn't legally required. The staff use misinformation and outright falsehoods to intimidate children and parents.They misrepresent the law, and speak to legal matters they have no legal authority, education, or experience to do so. Worse yet, the level of errors in diagnoses and subsequent medications coming from this place are staggering.The therapists are combative and emotionally immature, resorting to passive aggressiveness and tactics like withholding, name calling, and 'diagnosing' parents and guardians, whom they have not treated- ever, with a variety of mental health conditions to manipulate the minors during treatment. They violate HIPPA and discuss medical/therapy related items with other family members when an appropriately aged minor did not give permission to provide that information to that family member.They provide preferential treatment to certain kinds of kids (rich white 'normal' kids), while speaking, yelling and acting abusively toward others, including those who seemed 'less than middle class'. These are children in need of care, and many of the staff are legally negligent in the level of unobservant 'care' or 'treatment' they provide. The kids were often left to their own devices and engaged in self harm sitting on the sofas in the main hall, in full view of the attendant who sat reading their books less than 10 ft away.Many will try to explain this away due to the overburdened conditions of treatment places like this, however, what I have personally experienced and witnessed is borne from apathy and willful neglect.I am a retired law and government professor, and also a trained addiction counselor who specialized in working with minor children; it is my opinion, that this institution should have likely been closed for the flagrant abuse/neglect of minors that occurs there, if not for the many many health code violations, much less the legally abominable and questionable way the administration/caregivers conduct themselves and official business of the supposed 'treatment' facility.If you have looked at or have chosen this facility, please reconsider for the safety and wellbeing of your children. The few folks who seemed to have the kids best interests at heart are not enough to outweigh the majority who shouldn't be allowed to be working there.Take care and best wishes!

E T. S. S
7 months ago
5

The best place i've ever lived at. There my first family and favorite family. I miss Andrea (my PRC), Jason, Mike, Zack, Rurik, Bill, Lori, Don, Bev, Jennifer, Didi, Martina, Melody, Gina, Jack, Tim, Grace, Chris, Betty, Mark, Wayne, Trish, Casey, Stacey, Marc, Kyle and Claire. The staff and everyone are very, very awesome and good hearted people. Their all very caring and funny....very funny staff there. Mike gave me the nickname chewie after Chewbacca because I love star wars. I cherish Tamarack immensely. I went by a different name then which was Rebecca, and only them can call me by my former name. There the best people in the world to me. I think about the staff I knew and tamarack itself everyday. I miss them. I love everyone there. I highly recommend Tamarack from a person who cherished the time being there almost 2 years. I even changed my middle name to tamarack because how much they mean to me. Which is now Elara Tamarack Skyobi Sherwood. Thank you to every person there, Tamarack made me feel heard and seen. Thank you. I will never ever forget Tamarack. I think of them daily and use my coping skills I learned there. There the best ever. Thank you.

Madisyn Lynn
9 months ago
5

I've been in and out of residential, and let me tell you, I felt so "normal" here and it was amazing! The only problem I would have is with irp. I remember being so anxious all the time thinking I was doing something wrong and going to get irp. I only did once. I have no idea if they still do that because I was there 5 years ago. But most of the people there are amazing! I hated BJ with a passion

Adriana Jade
10 months ago
1

I was sent here against my will. The staff treated me like a prisoner with no rights. I was forced to take extremely high doses of drugs that i didn t need. I was improperly diagnosed with bipolar disorder. As were many of the other patients but let s be honest we were all prisoners. If you are a parent and you re seeing this. I highly suggest that you do your research and get a second opinion. I wouldn t wish what i had to go through on my worst enemy. This is a facility that abuses adolescents for profit. They want the insurance money. They want to tear children from their homes and traumatize them, make them believe that there is something wrong with them. All for greed.When in reality the solution might be a lot simpler than force feeding toxic mood stabilizing drugs down CHILDREN S throats while their precious brains are still developing.Please if you love your child. Don t do this to them. Don t let these people take your children because they might never come out the same. This could cause life long trauma like it almost did for me.

Natasha Davis
1 year ago
1

Staying here was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. I was improperly diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I was placed on an INSANE amount of medication I didn t need. Forced to stay here for 9 months against my will. Only to find out as an adult that I have histrionic personality disorder. You cannot fix a personality disorder with meds. Please do not send your children here. Take the time to do your research and find the right doctors that actually care about helping their patients. Not send them to a treatment facility they profit off of.

Skyler Tidwell
1 year ago
3

The PRCs are awesome. (Shout out to Olivia, Daisy, and Hannah) They still give us ones if we break rules because it's part of their job but they still validate your feelings and don't treat you differently. The food is very good. However the food is in very small portions and if we are hungry all we can do is wait until the next meal or snack which is usually one 50 calorie thing of fruit snacks. Also there is a HUGE spider problem. To the point where I have to empty out my shoes before I put them on. Also you are required to do sports and be active or you get punished. Sometimes I will be on my period with horrible cramps and be outside playing volleyball. Definitely needs some changes

Jackson Dines
1 year ago
1

I don t even want to talk about it,I am so traumatized

Dawson Konkright
2 years ago
5

This place makes miracles happen and has helped me along with most others that have gone through its doors

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