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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How this donor-supported program aims to help coaches improve youth 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.
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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One in seven women battles perinatal depression, but only 20 percent get the help they need. The UW Medicine Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line seeks to bridge the gap.
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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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After his patient died by suicide, Dr. Jeff Sung is working to strengthen suicide risk assessment, management and treatment.
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UW Medicine specialists will lead the largest clinical trial ever involving rural Americans with a psychiatric disorder.
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With the addition of two new programs, UW Medicine has strengthened its efforts to help women navigate difficult choices surrounding pregnancy and mental health.
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A donor-supported program helps psychiatry residents bring telehealth care to the Lummi Nation.
Read StoryPhilanthropy 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.
To support innovative research, initiatives and programs to accelerate the prevention and treatment of brain disorders.
Give Today >To support the Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center.
Give Today >To support research into and the research of psychedelic compounds combined with evidence-based behavioral interventions to treat addictions.
Give Today >Help our researchers advance innovative strategies for the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders, including opioid addiction and overdose.
Give Today >To offset the cost of education for medical students participating in an internship in Psychiatry at the UW School of Medicine.
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