At the Senate Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care meeting last week, lawmakers heard an update on partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for adolescents in the state.
Family donates $15 million to Seattle Children s Hospital for youth mental health care
The money will be used to provide mental health training for pediatricians, social workers and others so children and teens can get treatment faster. Author: Eric Wilkinson Updated: 7:33 PM PDT May 5, 2021
EVERETT, Wash. The psychiatric unit at Seattle Children s Hospital is overloaded. There are so many kids in need of mental health treatment that they re filling the department s 41 beds and spilling over onto other floors every day.
The waitlist to see a child psychiatrist in western Washington stretches up to a year long as anxiety, depression and suicide are all on the rise during the pandemic.