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Many thanks to Kitsap Bank for their contributions and support of The Starfish Fund!

Supporting Our Vulnerable Neighbors

We believe it’s more important than ever to strengthen our community’s safety net. Our ability to provide behavioral health services for persons with serious mental illnesses has long been supported by people like you. Click here to make a tax deductible donation.

Prefer to donate by check? Please mail your check payable to Kitsap Mental Health Services to:

Kitsap Mental Health Services
Attn: Donations
5455 Almira Drive NE
Bremerton, WA 98311

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The Starfish Fund (For Uninsured and Underinsured Community Members)

The Starfish Fund assists uninsured and underinsured community members who come to us for services but are without needed resources for payment. If you’ve heard about The Starfish legend, it’s all about making a difference. The story shares how an individual walking along the beach gently picks up starfish and tosses them back into the sea so that they can survive. A passerby observing this asks the individual how they can possibly make a difference, given the large number of starfish in the same predicament along miles of beach. The individual responded, “I made a difference for that one.”

We are grateful to Kitsap Bank for helping us to seed and grow this fund! Here are ways you can help us financially support this effort:

Click here to donate online. Please choose “The Starfish Fund” option for your donation designation.

For check donations, please note “The Starfish Fund” in the memo line.

Help support Kitsap Mental Health Services while you shop!

The following retailer will make a donation to KMHS when you choose to participate in their giving programs and make purchases. Please review the information and guidelines below for specific details:

Fred Meyer

Using your Fred Meyer Rewards card helps KMHS Child and Family Service Programs! Click here to find out how!

The onset of major mental illness may occur as early as 7 to 11 years old.

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

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