SPOKANE, Wash. — Bright purple lights guide visitors to a unique addition at Northtown Mall this holiday season: a Community Care Kiosk that represents one mother's transformation of devastating loss into community action.

The kiosk operates under Gabriel's Challenge, a coalition founded by Kitara Johnson-Jones after losing her son Gabriel to fentanyl in March. The coalition's new space at the mall is designed to connect people with vital community resources.

"I feel like this is his legacy," Johnson-Jones said about the kiosk that brings her son's vision to life.

Gabriel shared a dream with his mother before his death: creating a community where people work together so no one falls through the cracks. That conversation became the foundation for Gabriel's Challenge, which launched this

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