Goal Area 4: Health Care

Below is summary information for the human services programs funded by the City in 2025 that support health care.

Organization: 4 Tomorrow

Program: Mental Health Coordination & Gap Therapy

BIPOC Organization: Yes

Amount Funded (2025): $60,281

Program Overview: Works to connect Latino community members in crisis to mental health providers. The program provides Coordination (referrals to exiting therapy providers), Gap Therapy (free short-term therapy to those in need of immediate care), and Education & Community Connection (monthly psycho education courses and groups).

Organization: Asian Counseling & Referral Services

Program: Children, Youth, & Family Services

BIPOC Organization: Yes

Amount Funded (2024): $27,834

Program Overview:  Provides bilingual/bicultural mental health services to low income Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth and their families including support groups, counseling, leadership development, and peer advocacy training.

Organization: Asian Counseling & Referral Services

Program: Whole Health Oriented Mental Health

BIPOC Organization: Yes

Amount Funded (2025): $11,362

Program Overview:  Provides culturally competent whole health oriented mental health services for Asian Pacific Islander (API) individuals living with a chronic mental illness to promote recovery, wellness, and whole health addressing physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Staff empower and assist clients to lead a productive life by offering service in their language, combining Eastern and Western service approaches and addressing social determinants of health.

Organization: Boys & Girls Club

Program: Holistic Mental Health Support

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $38,503

Program Overview:  The Holistic Mental Health Support program is a collaborative effort with Youth Eastside Services (YES) to deliver mental health programming tailored specifically to the needs of Kirkland Club youth. The YES counselor will be able to provide counseling (individual and group), interventions, referrals, risk assessments, and more on site.

Organization: Friends of Youth

Program: Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Counseling

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $20,000

Program Overview:  Friends of Youth’s Youth and Family Services (YFS) division provides individual, family, group therapy, and case management to youth and their families through outpatient and school-based counseling for mental health, substance use disorder treatment and prevention.

Organization: HealthPoint

Program: Primary Medical Care

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $6,632

Program Overview:  Participants receive medical treatment and care for preventative, urgent, acute, and chronic health conditions.

Organization: IKRON of Greater Seattle

Program: Behavioral Health Services

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $45,000

Program Overview:  Integrated behavioral health program focused on assisting low income and homeless individuals and families in East King County. Services include high quality mental health and recovery services, including psycho-social assessments, counseling, case management, substance abuse intensive treatment, relapse prevention, and psychiatric care. The program goal is to establish a solid foundation for emotional well-being and recovery towards successful integration in the community. 

Organization: Imagine Housing

Program: Behavioral Health Support

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $20,000

Program Overview:  Imagine Housing partnership with behavioral health provider IKRON to offer on-site and critically needed behavioral health support to individuals and families living at Imagine Housing properties.  

Organization: Indian American Community Services

Program:  Mental & Behavioral Health Services

BIPOC Organization: Yes

Amount Funded (2025): $40,000

Program Overview:  Provides culturally specific services for mental health support of Asian Indian families, seniors, and youth addressing body, mind, and soul. This program uses a community input driven approach to identify, address mental health struggles comprehensively by hosting weekly conversation driven moderated support groups, wellness programs (created with input from youth and seniors), yoga, meditation, art, music, monthly webinars, as needed personalized counseling, and connection to resource groups. 

Organization: NAMI Eastside

Program: Community Mental Health Education & Support

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $7,170

Program Overview:  Provides services to those affected by mental illness in East King County. Services include peer & family support groups, evidence-based psychoeducational courses, expert-led forums on a variety of mental health topics, drop-in services and email services for those seeking mental health information & resources, and annual Youth Mental Health Conference.

Organization: Porchlight

Program: Behavioral Mental Health

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $20,000

Program Overview:  Same day/on-site behavioral health department to provide the quality services including mental health/psychiatric assessments, Substance Use Disorder assessments, therapy groups, therapeutic case management, peer-led support groups, psycho educational classes, and individual therapy sessions.

Organization: Therapeutic Health Services

Program: Substance Use & Mental Health Treatment

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $16,709

Program Overview:  Provides strengths-based, culturally appropriate, intensive outpatient drug and alcohol treatment, counseling, and case management services. This includes individual, group, and family counseling sessions and relapse prevention treatment. Evidence-based practices are used by staff comprised of substance use disorder and mental health professionals, case managers, nurses, ARNPs, physicians, and psychiatrists. 

Organization: Youth Eastside Services

Program: Behavioral Health Care for Children & Youth

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $129,470

Program Overview:  Comprehensive program for ages 6-22 and their families. Through intervention, stabilization, support, and empowerment children/youth/families receive the necessary skills to improve their social-emotional wellbeing and self-regulation. Services include evidence-based mental health counseling, substance use treatment, co-occurring disorders treatment (for those with mental health/substance abuse conjointly), psychiatric services and case management. 

Organization: Youth Eastside Services

Program: Community Based Outreach

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $41,198

Program Overview: Provides free counseling and case management to support BIPOC students, including immigrant/refugee youth, in connecting to school and developing leadership skills

Organization: Youth Eastside Services

Program: Early Childhood Behavioral Health

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $47,514

Program Overview: Provides early childhood intervention aimed at restructuring the parent-child relationship to support the infant's/child's healthy social, emotional and cognitive development.

Organization: Youth Eastside Services

Program: Kirkland Teen Union Building

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $140,000

Program Overview: Low barrier behavioral health services at KTUB provided by a dually certified clinician (certified as both a Mental Health Therapist and a Substance Use Disorder Professional) to offer a combination of drop-in services and longer-term behavioral health treatment for young people in crisis.  

Organization: Youth Eastside Services

Program: Latine Programs

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2025): $42,247

Program Overview: Provides culturally-relevant youth leadership development activities facilitated by bilingual (Spanish-English)/bicultural staff, including program activities to promote college readiness, student voice and identity, parent engagement, leadership skills, and youth-led community service projects and cultural events.