Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation

“The finance committee reviews a draft copy of the form 990 for accuracy and presents to the full board of directors for approval before filing.”

“Written conflict of interest policy in place that each board member and officer is required to sign and disclose their interests annually.”

“Human resources performs a salary comparison with like agencies for the position. The ceo has an "at will" contract reviewed and approved by the board annually, and can be terminated at anytime.”

“Human resources performs a salary comparison with like agencies for the position. Salary is reviewed and approved by the ceo, cfo, cmo, coo, and the executive committee of the board of directors.”

“The governing documents are provided to funders, auditors, and the state of washington. All documents are made available upon request.”

“Volunteers worked closely with the development and fundraising department in the administration building. They assisted with salesforce and database management, assisted with google ad words for the website, took photos and video for valley cities, helped find grant opportunities, and helped write grants. All board members are unpaid volunteers who assist in oversight of the organization through monthly meetings discussing financial results, policies, the mission, and other governance issues.”

“Outpatient: valley cities counseling and consultation (valley cities), a not-for-profit community behavioral health center, has been the local source for quality behavioral health counseling and chemical dependency since 1965 in washington state with clinics in auburn, federal way, kent, renton, meridian at northgate, rainier beach, enumclaw, midway, pike place, bitter lake, and the cohen veterans network in lakewood. Valley cities serves approximately 20,000 individuals each year. Valley cities is accredited by the joint commission on the accreditation of healthcare organizations (jcaho) and commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf). Valley cities provides licensed mental health and chemical dependency treatment for youth and adults; supported employment and education services; outreach services and housing programs for the homeless; family support programs offering youth and family activities; and specialized veterans services that deliver counseling and family support services to veterans and their families. The development department conducts fundraising, marketing, public relations, grant writing, and public policy advocacy. The human resources department oversees personnel, staff training, student intern, and volunteer functions, and the administration and finance departments oversee the revenue cycle team, support staff, accounting and payroll operations. Valley cities continues to integrate trained and certified peer support specialists into all programs, allowing their own recovery, and motivating others to find hope and growth in their recovery process. Valley cities clinics offer a unique model of care, team-based care. All clients are assigned to a case manager who then assists them in connecting to resources in the agency and in the community. Clinicians are trained in evidenced based treatment modalities including cbt+ (trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children) and love and logic parenting skills. Through care coordination, valley cities still treats children, adults and older adults, but as a team approach so each individual gets the focus that they need. Services are provided to meet the needs of children, youth and their families with mental illnesses or emotional disturbances; children, youth and families who are in crises; and children and youth who are victims of trauma or family violence. These services include individual and family counseling; in home family support and advocacy; school-based counseling; crises intervention; case management; psychiatric assessment; case coordination with other service providers; medication management; support groups and skills for training parents; outreach clinical teams for homeless families; community consultation and education; and specialized treatment for those with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Services are also provided to assist adults and their families with chemical dependency treatment services. Services are trauma-informed and designed with an emphasis on recovery and hope. Valley cities provides employment and educational services so that clients can be supported to return to work or school. The chemical dependency services include intensive outpatient and specialized relapse prevention services and are integrated with the mental health services for those clients that have co- occurring mental health and chemical dependency problems. Valley cities' programs consist of: case manager at each outpatient clinic the case manager is the main point of contact at valley cities. They help walk the client through how to get services at valley cities, ask them about what difficulties they are having and try to find ways to help. They connect the client with the appropriate level of care that is needed, which can include counseling, medications, peer support, or groups. They also help connect them to services in the community, like a primary care physician or a dentist. The case manager helps manage all the”

“Medical services medical services includes both staff psychiatrists and nurse practitioners. They provide psychiatric evaluations and medication management services to any client who needs psychiatric care. In addition, the medical staff provides psychiatric consultation to a range of community health centers throughout king county, advising the primary care staff with diagnostic information and recommendations on psychotropic medications that can be prescribed in the primary care setting. All expenses related to these staff are captured in this program. Clinical support services clinical support services includes information systems, access services including all telephone screening and initial intake services, after-hours crises team, front desk support, medical records, call center and quality management services. These programs directly support all clinical programs by providing either client assistance and/or data collection and reporting in order to manage client care. Recovery place seattle (rps) recovery place seattle (rps) is a residential treatment facility and houses a licensed medically monitored 33 bed detoxification service which provides medical detoxification inpatient services for people who need support to safely withdraw from drug or alcohol use. This 33-bed service provides services for a 3-5 day typical stay. Rps also houses a 42 bed 28-day intensive inpatient program for individuals living with substance use disorder concerns. This program offers structured, holistic, and evidence- based practices, including relapse prevention, coping mechanisms (both abstinence-based and harm reduction), and re-connection to community and resources. Clients participate in counseling and support groups. The average daily census for detox and residential for 2022 was 10 and 25, respectively. Recovery place kent (rpk) recovery place kent (rpk) opened in december 2019 with 32 beds and is washington states first dually licensed chemical dependency & psychiatric facility. The evaluation and treatment program provides inpatient crisis stabilization services to individuals who have been detained under the involuntary treatment act (ita) for danger to self, danger to others, or grave disability related to a psychiatric illness. The interdisciplinary treatment team provides psychiatric evaluation, medication management, individual mental health and substance use disorder counseling, group activities, peer support, coordination with king county ita court, and discharge planning to re-connect clients to community supports. The secure withdrawal management program opened december 2019 in response to house bill 1713 "ricky's law". The secure withdrawal management services provides both medical management of withdrawal from addictive substances, psychiatric evaluation and support, substance use assessment and counseling, medication management, group activities, peer support, coordination with king county ita court, and discharge planning to community supports.”

“Housing support services valley cities operates permanent supportive housing programs that provide rental assistance with home-based case management services for homeless individuals and homeless families. Supportive services in these programs address events and circumstances that underlie or contribute to the inability to obtain and maintain affordable and stable housing. This includes pathways first, homeless service enhancement, shelter plus care, valley cities landing, valley cities place and phoenix rising permanent supportive housing projects dedicated to serving individuals, and families. Twelve units at valley cities landing and eight units in the homeless service enhancement program are dedicated for homeless veterans. Residents engage in onsite and community-based services that help them live with stability, autonomy and dignity. In 2022, this program served 149 clients. Funding sources included king county, hud, wa state dept. Of commerce; plymouth housing; and king county housing authority. Families first with funding from the king county housing authority (24 vouchers), the families first program is designed to provide housing placement and supportive services to 24 high needs families in king county who have had at least one child or are in imminent danger of having a child removed from the home by child protective services. The goal of the project is reunification of the family and increasing housing stability and self- sufficiency. This is accomplished through individualized, intensive services to families along with a family unification program (fup) section 8 voucher (tenant-based vouchers) that can be used in the private housing market. In 2022, this program served 34 individuals and a success rate of 82% of families remaining stably housed for at least 1 or more years. Coming-up youth program the coming up program (cup) is a supportive housing program subsidized through king county housing authority (kcha) and king county. Cup provided housing and support services to up to 22 homeless young adults in south king county ages 18-24. The goal of the cup program was to provide program participants with a wraparound approach to services and support that would enable them to achieve self-sufficiency. In 2022, valley cities worked with the king county housing authority (kcha) to move from master leased units to tenant-based sec. 8 vouchers. After a year of working closely with kcha to complete this transition, valley cities searched for an apartment complex within the south king county community that could provide 22 set- aside units that would accept tenant-based sec. 8 vouchers. Unfortunately, due to the current rental market, management companies that in the past were willing to partner are no longer willing to provide set-aside units for the population valley cities serves. Valley cities was unable to locate a community apartment complex that would provide 22 set-aside units to meet the grant requirements. Consequently, in 2022, valley cities made the difficult decision to end the cup program as of december 30, 2022. All current cup participants were provided advocacy to locate alternative housing programs or were provided assistance to graduate with a sec. 8 move-on voucher to permanent housing. New journeys demonstration project program the new journeys demonstration projects goal is to deliver and implement a model for first-episode psychosis (fep) treatment that creates a positive climate and maintains fidelity to the clinical concepts and core elements of coordinated specialty care (csc) via the navigate model. Participants are king county residents between ages 15-40 who have a primary diagnosis on the schizophrenia spectrum with symptoms for less than two years. The mental health symptoms are not a direct result of or strongly impacted by an autism spectrum disorder, significant developmental delays, learning disabilities or other medical conditions. New journeys places a strong emphasis on outreach and”

“Clinical support services clinical support services includes information systems, access services including all telephone screening and initial intake services, after-hours crises team, front desk support, medical records, call center and quality management services. These programs directly support all clinical programs by providing either client assistance and/or data collection and reporting in order to manage client care. The development department carries out fundraising, marketing, public relations, grant writing, and public policy advocacy. The human resources department oversees personnel, staff training, student intern, and volunteer functions, and the administration and finance departments oversee the revenue cycle team, support staff, accounting and payroll operations.”