One of the most important jobs we have at the Department of Community & Human Services (DCHS) is to connect communities to critical services, including mental health care and wellness. That means making sure King County residents can get the treatment and care they need when they need it and how they need it. Everyone … Continue reading Be Heard: What King County Communities Are Saying About Mental Health and Wellness
Crisis Care Centers Update: RFP for Post-Crisis Care Now Open. Apply by August 15!
In 2023, King County voters approved the Crisis Care Centers Levy to create a network of five Crisis Care Centers. A Crisis Care Center is a place for anyone to go to get urgent care for a wide range of mental health and substance use crises, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To … Continue reading Crisis Care Centers Update: RFP for Post-Crisis Care Now Open. Apply by August 15!
First Responders in King County Applaud Crisis Care Centers
A Crisis Care Center is a place for people experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis to go and receive urgent care. Funded by the voter-approved levy, anyone can walk into a Crisis Care Center 24/7 with or without insurance to get help and a path to recovery. Crisis Care Centers are also a … Continue reading First Responders in King County Applaud Crisis Care Centers
A Year Later: Update on King County’s Five-Priority Strategy to Prevent Overdoses & Expand Treatment
Around this time last year, King County announced a multi-part strategy to address the surge of fentanyl and overdoses. Guided by five priorities, the strategy expanded behavioral health treatment, increased access to medications for opioid use disorder, and made overdose prevention tools and resources more widely available. Today, we remain committed to continuing to advance … Continue reading A Year Later: Update on King County’s Five-Priority Strategy to Prevent Overdoses & Expand Treatment
Helping People in a Crisis: Update on King County’s Mobile Rapid Response Crisis Teams
King County launched its new Mobile Rapid Response Crisis Teams (MRRCT)1 at the end of 2024, and the expanded program is providing much-needed relief to our communities while we build more crisis care centers for people to go in a mental health, drug or alcohol related crisis. Mobile crisis teams are trained mental health workers … Continue reading Helping People in a Crisis: Update on King County’s Mobile Rapid Response Crisis Teams
El condado de King amplía los equipos móviles de crisis para adultos con el fin de llegar más rápido a más personas
El condado de King marcó recientemente un nuevo logro en nuestro progreso para garantizar que los miembros de la comunidad reciban rápidamente la atención más eficaz y adecuada en caso de una crisis de salud mental o de consumo de sustancias. El 2 de diciembre, la División de Salud Conductual y Recuperación (BHRD, por sus … Continue reading El condado de King amplía los equipos móviles de crisis para adultos con el fin de llegar más rápido a más personas