Lines For Life is mostly staffed by volunteers, whereas EVERY individual who works at the county's crisis line and for the county's partnered crisis services (i.e. Project Respond and Cascadia's Urgent Walk-In Clinic, which are relatively immediately available not hours away as alluded to above) not only has a Master's Degree in Social Work, Counseling, etc. but also extensive experience in the field, to include work in residential treatment, psychiatric hospitals or wards, private practice, and emergency and/or intensive community-based social services. They are life-long practitioners of their craft and an invaluable community resource that frankly appears to have been slandered in the article above. And, whereas Lines For Life answers 17,000 calls a year, the crisis line answers over 65,000 with compassionate, empirically-based, and client-centered care. You tell me who is better suited to carry this torch. This is but another example of Amanda Fritz failing at her job.