Director hired for crisis center

The new regional mental health crisis center in Coeur d’Alene will be managed by someone who is no stranger to handling difficult, sometimes dangerous, situations in North Idaho. Longtime FBI agent Don Robinson was hired this month to fill the position of crisis and intervention services manager. “Don Robinson has a long history of crisis intervention and management that make him uniquely skilled at working with the population the crisis center will serve,” said Claudia Miewald, Kootenai Health’s director of behavioral health services. “From 2005 to 2012 he worked as the supervisory special agent of the Coeur d’Alene resident agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. We are very fortunate to have our first staff member of the crisis center be such a well-qualified individual”/ Maureen Dolan , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Factoid : This badly needed facility is being built despite the clueless no votes in the 2015 Legislature of state Reps. Kathy Sims, Vito Barbieri and Ron Mendive. See story here.

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