May is Mental Health Month and an opportunity to share how King County invests in critical services across the behavioral health system to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment. Today, we're facing a significant behavioral health crisis in our region, which is connected to the affordability crisis; to the workforce crisis…
Continue reading ➞ King County Recognizes Mental Health Awareness Month
Historically, behavioral health systems underserve many racial and ethnic underrepresented communities nationwide and continue to do so today. This impacts people, their families, and the broader communities in King County who often find that the current behavioral healthcare options do not fit their cultural needs, so they remain either un- or under-served by available mental…
Continue reading ➞ Community-Driven Behavioral Health Grants Invest Across King County
King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) Behavioral Health and Recovery Division (BHRD) is pleased to announce a Request for Applications (RFA) for the Be Heard: BIPOC Voices about Mental Health & Wellness Community Listening Project. The primary goal is to help BHRD understand how to better serve individuals from BIPOC communities by…
King County Behavioral Health and Recovery Division (BHRD) released an RFP to expand adult mobile crisis response in King County. The expansion will bring on more teams of behavioral health professionals to address immediate behavioral health conditions in community settings.
On Monday morning, King County Executive Dow Constantine announced a multi-part strategy across five priority areas to address the surge of fentanyl and stop the record overdose deaths in the region. The strategies expand behavioral health treatment, increase access to medications for opioid use disorder, and make overdose prevention tools and resources more widely available.…
King County Department of Community and Human Services is awarding Purpose, Dignity, Action (PDA) with $4.1 million to continue the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program. LEAD is a diversion program that offers law enforcement an alternative to booking people into jail. The MIDD Behavioral Health Sales Tax Fund invests in LEAD to align with…
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