New site, new name for Coulee Council on Addictions

Students suggested removing “addictions” from name.

The Coulee Council on Addictions is hoping to have a new headquarters and new name by the end of next year.

Where that would be or what it would be called are still being considered.

“We wanted to be responsive to the stakeholders, who said that it’s important for us to be on a bus line, maybe central La Crosse, to make it accessible for folks seeking and needing our support,” Council director Cheryl Hancock said, adding they are in final negotiations, however.

The planned Coulee Recovery Center would be about twice the size of the existing Coulee Council building on West Ave. Hancock added that dozens of other support groups use the building for events throughout the year.  

As for the name, it’s quite simple why a change is being considered, after some students brought it up.

“They came back and they even said, ‘Addictions is a word that has a stigma to it,’ so even within your title Coulee Council on Addictions, you have some of that stigma,” Hancock said.