Crisis & 24/7 Services

Support When You Need it Most

Crisis can strike anyone, any time. When it does, Kitsap Mental Health Services is here to help. Working with the Salish Regional Crisis Line, we provide immediate intervention and support for people experiencing a behavioral health crisis.

If you or someone you know is in a behavioral health crisis, call the 24/7 Crisis Call Line at 1-888-910-0416 or text 988. Professionals will assess your needs, resolve the crisis by phone or connect you with services.

Depending on the need, this could include dispatching the KMHS Mobile Crisis Outreach Team for emergency assessment, including referrals to inpatient care. It may also include involuntary detention in our evaluation and treatment center or other psychiatric facility or substance use treatment facility. Our adult and youth outreach teams help people get through the current crisis and get connected to the services needed to support their recovery.

In addition to inpatient treatment for children and adults, KMHS 24/7 crisis services also include a voluntary short-term (up to 5 day) Crisis Triage Center for adults, and longer-stay mental health and substance use residential treatment services. Our various levels of crisis care may be what you or someone you care about needs.

Half of all mental health disorders show first signs before a person turns 14 years old, and three quarters of mental health disorders begin before age 24.

7:00 AM	Shift begins; check in with night shift to ensure continuity for ongoing cases
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 on co-parenting skills
11:20 AM	Lunch
12:00 PM	Answer emails and enter progress notes in client charts
1:20 PM	Follow up with a client by phone
1:40 PM	Follow up with a client at the Crisis Triage Center
2:15 PM	Drive to a Central Kitsap middle school to provide support with school counselor for youth who is drawing pictures that indicate suicidal thoughts; refer to WISe intensive support team
4:35 PM	Answer crisis call with adult who tried to suffocate themself; talk to paramedics and caller’s family; client is taken to St. Michael Medical Center
5:55 PM	Follow up with a youth’s parents to offer resources covered by their insurance
7:00 PM	Shift ends

Donations	$57,706
Investment Income	$2,350,966
Medicaid Managed Care	$40,516,387
Other Contracts/Misc	$16,788,859
Private Fee/Insurance	$439,572
Total	$60,153,490

24/7 Evaluation & Treatment, Residential, Supported Housing	$12,105,599
Adult Services	$16,363,069
Child & Family Services	$10,222,802
Emergency Services	$5,106,174
General & Administrative	$13,284,787
Total	$57,082,431

Support When You Need it Most

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