Almost every family is affected by mental illness or substance use, but fewer than half of those who need it can access timely and effective care.
UW Medicine is making breakthroughs in research, improving care and expanding services available in our region.
Your generosity will accelerate much-needed changes in how we care for and treat issues of mental health and addiction, ensuring more people receive the immediate, high-quality care they need.
Yes! I want to improve care for people struggling with mental health and addiction disorders.
Give Today!Through your caring support, we can address the toughest challenges in mental health and substance use and improve outcomes for everyone. Here’s how your gift can help:
Improve access to critical mental health services. Your generosity can help us shape how mental health care is delivered in Washington state and increases access to effective treatments.
Fast-track better treatment options. You can help us advance critical research that can lead to more effective and better-targeted treatments for psychiatric illness and addictions.
Increase the behavioral health workforce. Your generous support strengthens our education and training programs, increasing the number of mental health and substance use professionals.
UW Medicine, in collaboration with philanthropic, government, and academic and community partners, is helping address the urgent behavioral health care crisis in our state. Here’s how:
is developing, testing and rapidly deploying innovative approaches to prevent and treat brain health and mental health problems.
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is leading the redesign of Washington state’s behavioral health crisis response system, providing crucial treatment space and developing innovative programs to quickly reach people in crisis.
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will provide more acute and long-term inpatient psychiatry services and train future physicians in state-of-the-art treatments and technologies that can improve access and outcomes.
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As director of the new Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions, Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA, is helping us rethink how we’re treating and caring for those affected by mental health, substance use, and other brain health disorders.
Harborview Medical Center offers the best medical care for our region — and beyond.
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How the Center for Behavioral Health and Learning promises to be a game-changer for mental health and addiction care in our region.
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A donor-supported program helps psychiatry residents bring telehealth care to the Lummi Nation.
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A new donor-supported program at The Sports Institute at UW Medicine helps coaches improve youth athletes’ mental health.
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A donor-supported telemedicine program offered critical mental health care during the pandemic.
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New $38 million gift from Ballmer Group aims to change that.
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Parents keep their son’s legacy alive by advocating for mental health.
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Could a phone game help train your brain to overcome depression?
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Caring texts lower the risk of suicide in active-duty military personnel.
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Using a smartphone to get mental health help, 24/7.
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Protecting mental health for generations to come.
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UW Medicine launches the Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center.
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Lisa Lovejoy suffered for years with mental illness — until she found the right treatment at Harborview Medical Center. Now she hopes to inspire others toward better health.
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Dr. Jeff Sung first felt the anguish and guilt of losing a patient to suicide when he was a UW […]
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In June 2013, Noranne Skaanland, an avid cyclist, was in the home stretch of a 20-mile bike ride. She had […]
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After suffering a traumatic injury, many people are concerned about more than their physical well-being. Worries can mount about how […]
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UW Medicine specialists in psychiatry and behavioral sciences will lead the largest clinical trial ever involving rural Americans with a […]
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People rightfully have high confidence that one pill taken from a medicine bottle will have the same composition and effect […]
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Depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns take on added dimensions when a woman is expecting a baby or has […]
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Anyone living in a rural community knows that finding help for depression can be tough. Many counties in Washington state […]
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The UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science has launched a program to expand mental health services across the state. […]
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A donor-supported program helps psychiatry residents bring telehealth care to the Lummi Nation.
Read MorePhilanthropy is vital for advancing promising research, developing more effective treatments and expanding access to behavioral health care in our state. Your caring support will help improve the lives of people struggling with mental health or substance use disorders and their families.
Want to learn more about the research breakthroughs your caring support makes possible? Visit the UW Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences website here.
Support the UW Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in launching innovative initiatives that improve access to mental health and substance use care, at the direction of the department Chair.
Give Today >Support innovative research, initiatives and programs to accelerate the prevention and treatment of brain disorders.
Give Today >There is no health without mental health. With your support, the UW Medicine Behavioral Health Institute can change lives in our community forever by improving and expanding care for people and families struggling with mental health and addiction issues.
Give Today >Support research into the use of psychedelic compounds combined with evidence-based behavioral interventions to treat addictions.
Give Today >Support vaccine, antibody, small molecule and other innovative research strategies in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders, including opioid addiction and overdose and other conditions.
Give Today >Support the new Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Give Today >Support a bachelor-level training program in psychosocial interventions for patients with mild-to-moderate mental health challenges.
Give Today >Support suicide prevention research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Give Today >Help offset the cost of education for medical students participating in a sub-internship in Psychiatry at the UW School of Medicine.
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