Suicide Conference Open To All
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - My son Shon died by suicide in 2009. Since then I started a group that meets once a month at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, named Survivors of Suicide. View [...]
Bremerton Beat Blast: The Homelessness Crisis
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - Reporter Austen Macalus examines homelessness here, including those sleeping out in the November cold and plans for a new supportive housing complex. Link to Video>
Impending Medicaid Changes Worry Some Local Behavioral Health Providers
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - There are big changes coming to mental health and substance use services around the West Sound next year. Washington’s ongoing Medicaid transition to “whole-person care” — the last stage of [...]
Long-Running Crisis Intervention Hotline Closing At The End Of The Year
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - A longstanding over-the-phone crisis intervention hotline serving Kitsap, Callam and Jefferson counties will be shutting down at the end of the year. Crisis Clinic of the Peninsulas, a 24-7 hotline [...]
‘The Stars Have Aligned’: Permanent Supportive Housing Project Goes Ahead With Funding From Gates Foundation
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - It’s going to take $20.8 million to develop Pendleton Place, Kitsap’s first permanent supportive housing project aimed at helping the county’s most vulnerable residents. But the ambitious project is [...]
One Year In, Kitsap Crisis Triage Center Shows Signs Of Success
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - Kitsap's Crisis Triage Center opened last August with ambitious goals: reduce emergency room cases, jail visits and in-patient hospitalizations stemming from behavioral health crises. A year into operations the [...]
Her Goal? 52 Marathons. Her Inspiration? Her Brother.
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - By July, New Year's resolutions are usually long forgotten. But for Illahee native Tabatha Collins, it’s all that’s running through her mind. “Sometimes I think: is this still important, [...]
Partnership Seeks To Create Homeless Housing Complex In Bremerton
Courtesy of Kitsap Daily News - Kitsap Mental Health Services, the Bremerton Housing Authority and the City of Bremerton have teamed up to construct an apartment complex in Bremerton which aims to tackle Kitsap’s [...]
Officials Move Ahead With Project That Will Bring Supportive Housing To Homeless
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - A first-of-its-kind project that combines affordable housing, mental-health care and ongoing support services for Kitsap’s most vulnerable residents will be built off Kitsap Way just west of Highway 3, [...]
Kitsap Mental Health Teams Offer Intensive Services For Families
Courtesy of Kitsap Sun - A former Doctors Clinic urgent care center off Highway 303 has been transformed into a hub where families of young people struggling with mental health challenges can find help. Kitsap [...]
