Name: Rethinking Approaches to Substance Use Recovery – Rescheduled May 9
Start: 2024-05-09T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-05-09T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Olympic College, Building 4, Room 129

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Rethinking Approaches to Substance Use Recovery – Rescheduled May 9

May 9 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

A Kitsap Mental Health Services Community Education Event

Event rescheduled: May 9

Join Wayne Swanson, director of the largest “dual-diagnosis” – mental health and substance use disorder – treatment team in Kitsap County, to learn about the latest treatment practices, including harm reduction and the “no wrong door” approach.

Wayne will discuss

How harm reduction strategies like needle exchanges and safe injection sites can co-exist with and positively impact treatment
How challenging old assumptions can improve outcomes
How to support people you care about in their recovery journey

A Q&A session will follow.

Thursday, May 9, 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Doors open at 4:30

Olympic College, Building 4, Room 129

1600 Chester Ave, Bremerton, WA 98337

Questions?

Parking Map

**All OC parking lots are open to visitors after 4 pm. No permit is needed.

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

Rethinking Approaches to Substance Use Recovery – Rescheduled May 9

May 9 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

A Kitsap Mental Health Services Community Education Event

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