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:
Improving Care for Mental Health and Addiction Disorders
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.
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Give Today!Your Impact
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.
Partner with a Leader in
Mental Health Care, Research, Training and Education
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:
Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions
is developing, testing and rapidly deploying innovative approaches to prevent and treat brain health and mental health problems.
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The UW Medicine Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center
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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Our new Center for Behavioral Health and Learning
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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Stories
The Secret to Better Brain Health
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.
A Place Where Everyone Can Get World-Class Care
Harborview Medical Center offers the best medical care for our region — and beyond.
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Transformative Model for Mental Health Care Offers Hope for Our Region
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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Healing Generational Trauma with Culturally Humble Care
A donor-supported program helps psychiatry residents bring telehealth care to the Lummi Nation.
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Strengthening Mental Health for Young Athletes
How this donor-supported program aims to help coaches improve youth mental health.
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How Telemedicine Can Be a Lifeline for Patients with Diabetes
A donor-supported telemedicine program offered critical mental health care during the pandemic.
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A Quarter of WA Residents Don’t Have Access to Mental Health Services
New $38 million gift from Ballmer Group aims to change that.
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The Three of Us
Parents keep their son’s legacy alive by advocating for mental health.
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A Prescription for Fun
Could a phone game help train your brain to overcome depression?
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Commissioning Kindness
Caring texts lower the risk of suicide in active-duty military personnel.
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Your Smart Phone Will See You Now
Using a smartphone to get mental health help, 24/7.
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Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies
Protecting mental health for generations to come.
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No Health Without Mental Health
UW Medicine launches the Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center.
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Both Light and Dark
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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To Teach Suicide Care is to Confront Bias, Fears, Reality
Dr. Jeff Sung first felt the anguish and guilt of losing a patient to suicide when he was a UW […]
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Recovery From Head Trauma’s Psychological After-effects
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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Recognizing Emotional Wounds That Come With Traumatic Injury
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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Major Clinical Trial to Study Mental Health in Rural U.S.
UW Medicine specialists in psychiatry and behavioral sciences will lead the largest clinical trial ever involving rural Americans with a […]
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Could Psychotherapy Software Detect the Sound of Empathy?
People rightfully have high confidence that one pill taken from a medicine bottle will have the same composition and effect […]
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Helping Moms, Babies Navigate Mental Health
Depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns take on added dimensions when a woman is expecting a baby or has […]
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UW Helps Improve Depression and Anxiety Care in Rural West
Anyone living in a rural community knows that finding help for depression can be tough. Many counties in Washington state […]
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UW Psychiatry to Expand Mental Health Services Across State
The UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science has launched a program to expand mental health services across the state. […]
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Healing Generational Trauma with Culturally Humble Care
A donor-supported program helps psychiatry residents bring telehealth care to the Lummi Nation.
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Philanthropy 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.
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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.