Someone CARES

The story of the beginnings of Eastern Washington University’s CARES Program is maybe not all that different from a memorable television commercial.

Remember, the one with the lines, “You got your chocolate in my peanut butter,” followed by “You got your peanut butter in my chocolate,” an ad for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?

Seems that back in 2006 the Spokane Fire Department and EWU’s School of Social Work each had a mission that needed to get accomplished.

Part of the inspiration for the CARES (Community Assisted Response) program came from an incident Spokane Assistant Fire Chief Brian Schaef...