Staff report

Blending housing, case management and life-skills development, Valley City officials expect their latest construction project will help young adults, ages 18-25 become responsible, productive and independent, enabling them to move out of homelessness.

Plans for Phoenix Rising describe 24 single-resident-occupancy units for homeless young adults whose income levels are below 30 percent of the area’s median income and who are in desperate need of housing.

Plans call for the construction of two, detached, 4,394-square-foot, single-story residential buildings with 12 units per building, allowing room for the future  development of two additional single-story residential buildings, also with 12 units each.

In addition, the project is to provide job training at the Recovery Café and behavioral health services at the adjacent Valley Cities Auburn office, 2704 I St. NE.

Recovery Café is designed to be a 4,528-square-foot shared common space for young adults living in the residential buildings. A place where they can gather for meals and participate in food-service, barista and custodial-services job training.

Valley Cities has provided quality behavioral health counseling and chemical dependency services to Auburn residents since 1965. It offers individual counseling, group and peer support, psychiatric and primary health care, access to vital social services and many additional support services, among them housing and employment assistance.