The Youth Inpatient Navigator program is a behavioral health care model in which we set up MDT’s (multidisciplinary team meetings) to connect our youth and families to the care and resources they need. We are committed to partnering with the community of Southwest WA to navigate the behavioral health needs of our youth and families by establishing trust, building relationships, inspiring hope, and walking alongside youth and families during the process.
Kids’ Mental Health Pierce County (KMHPC) was first created to identify and address needs and barriers to accessing pediatric behavioral health care. Today, KMHPC includes 800 members representing over 60 community agencies and stakeholders.
Greater Columbia Behavioral Health, LLC (GCBH) serves Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Kittitas, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima Counties.
Salish Behavioral Health Administrative Services Organization (SBH-ASO) provides Behavioral Health Crisis Services and other state-funded non-Medicaid behavioral health services in the Salish region which includes Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties.
Leveraging Partnership to Transform Change
On March 15, 2021, Governor Jay Inslee signed an emergency proclamation recognizing the current mental and behavioral health emergency among Washington’s children and youth.
Behavioral health crises come in many forms, and most do not fit neatly into a categorical service box.
No single entity or system owns full responsibility for crises, and a single entity or system is not, on its own, sufficiently leveraged to address the multi-factored complexities necessary for a healthy system.
Given the multifactorial determinants of psychiatric boarding in the ED, potential solutions will require a variety of hospital strategies, external community strategies, ideally in collaboration with one another. Kids Mental Health Washington partners across the state are streamlining and coordinating youth behavioral health resources.
Together, we are building an access portal for individuals needing support by:
- Centralizing where and how to access local resources
- Facilitating community solutions and referrals for complex behavioral needs by convening multi system disciplinary teams
- Creating and supporting steering committees, action committees, and community agreements to coordinate events, partners, and assets
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