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Our Mission: Offering Hope and Opportunity through comprehensive recovery-oriented behavioral healthcare.
Our Mission: Offering Hope and Opportunity through comprehensive recovery-oriented behavioral healthcare.
The 72-unit supportive housing complex for chronically homeless adults opened in May 2022. Residents range from 23 to 74 years old, and include 29 domestic violence survivors and 12 veterans.
During the First Year of Operation:
Percentage of students who answered “yes” to the following: During the past 12 months, did you ever feel so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row that you stopped doing some usual activities?
Compared to 35.5%, 39%, and 47.4% respectively in 2021.
Percentage of students who reported being bullied in the past 12 months:
Compared to 23%, 16.3%, and 13.4% respectively in 2021.
Percentage of students who said they had seriously contemplated attempting suicide in the past 12 months:
Compared to 20%, 21.6%, and 23.2% respectively in 2021.
Source: Washington State 2023 Healthy Youth Survey – Go to https://www.askhys.net/ for more data.
As a member of KMHS’s Youth Mobile Crisis Outreach Team, Stephanie Powers never knows what the day will bring. She may respond to a person in crisis over the phone or visit them at home or school to de-escalate the situation, ensure the person’s safety and connect them with resources.
“It’s never straightforward,” she says. “It’s a very abstract job.”
| 7:00 AM | Shift begins; check in with night shift to ensure continuity for ongoing cases |
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| 8:00 AM | Outreach presentation to regional high school counselors |
| 8:55 AM | Drive to a South Kitsap middle school for a “warm hand-off” of youth to new support services |
| 9:20 AM | Receive call from a Central Kitsap middle school counselor on the way to South Kitsap |
| 9:35 AM | In South Kitsap, meet with a youth’s mom, dad, school support staff and new school-based WISe intensive support team to discuss care for young person whose behaviors have led to severe weight loss; resolution includes therapy for the youth and an appointment at Kitsap Resolution Center for parents to work |