Community Mental Health

Announcements:

• Snohomish County requests proposals for contracts to provide Chemical Dependency and/or Mental Health services to low-income and indigent residents of Snohomish County.  Proposals are due by January 7, 2010.  An Applicants Conference is scheduled for December 8, 2009.  For additional information, please go to the Sales Tax RFP webpage.

View the 2006 Jail Transition Services Report (54 KB).

The Community Mental Health Program provides for residential placement, community support, and crisis response services to persons with mental illness of all ages who meet the statutory definition of "acute," "chronic" or "seriously disturbed." The program:

• Contracts for community services
• Monitors services
• Plans for and develops new programs
• Conducts general troubleshooting, and
• Provides the following direct services:
  • Screening and authorization of residential placements
  • Discharge planning for patients of hospitals and treatment centers
  • Advocacy for clients
  • Problem-solving with clients
  • Planning for and coordination of services for difficult-to-serve individuals
  • Mediation of consumer/customer complaints

Last year the program authorized over 5,000 assessments and developed individualized plans to help persons who had been hospitalized for a mental illness make a successful transition back to living in the community.

The Mental Health Advisory Board provides advocacy and community input for community mental health concerns.  For additional meeting information, please visit the Human Services Public Meetings web page.

The County also appoints representatives to the North Sound Mental Health Administration Advisory Board to provide independent and objective advice on the regional public mental health program.  For more information or to apply for appointment to the Board please contact Jill Dace at 425-388-7209 or by email at jill.dace@co.snohomish.wa.us.

For more information:

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