Across all contracted programs, ranging from therapeutic courts, youth services, recovery housing, school-based supports, crisis response services, navigation programs, senior supports, and behavioral health providers, MHCDTC funding enables a coordinated continuum of care. Together, these services address the root causes that impact wellbeing, reduce costly system involvement, and promote healing and stability.
MHCDTC funded contractors accomplish the following community-wide impacts:
1. Expanding Access to Essential Behavioral Health Services
Contracted programs provide therapy, case management, peer support, crisis intervention, youth prevention, family stabilization, crisis response, and recovery supports to thousands of residents annually. This includes services to individuals not covered by insurance or who face barriers to reentry, transportation limitations, or access to needed care.
2. Reducing System Involvement and Increasing Stability
Services funded under MHCDTC create meaningful alternatives to emergency room visits, law enforcement response, hospitalization, child welfare intervention, and jail. Early intervention, trauma-responsive practices, and goal driven service plans help individuals stabilize sooner and maintain progress in the long term.
3. Strengthening Youth and Family Wellbeing
Contractors deliver school-based support, counseling, parenting programs, prevention services, crisis navigation, and resource connections. These programs decrease school disciplinary actions, improve classroom behavior, increase parental capacity, and help families stay safely together. Specialized services support foster youth, youth facing homelessness, and young people exposed to trauma.
4. Supporting Recovery and Long-Term Resilience
Several programs offer recovery housing, employment pathways, peer mentorship, and long-term case management that help individuals rebuild their lives after justice involvement, substance use disorders, or significant behavioral health challenges. This stabilizes families, supports workforce readiness, and strengthens community reintegration.
5. Improving Community Collaboration and Service Navigation
MHCDTC funding enhances coordination between schools, law enforcement, fire agencies, courts, behavioral health providers, homeless services, tribal communities, senior programs, resources, and local nonprofits. Contractors connect clients to the right resources at the right time, reducing duplication of services and improving outcomes.
6. Ensuring Equity and Culturally Responsive Support
Contractors collect outcome data to track disparities, improve cultural responsiveness, and ensure services meet the needs of diverse communities, including Indigenous residents, seniors, youth, LGBTQIA+ individuals, military families, low-income households, and people with various disabilities.
7. Delivering Measurable Outcomes to the Community
MHCDTC funding is one of the most strategic local investments Kitsap County makes each year. It prevents crises before they escalate, promotes safety and stability, strengthens families, and ensures that all community members, regardless of income, background, or insurance status, have access to the support they need.
Together, these contracted programs create a healthier, safer, and more resilient Kitsap County.
