Important phone numbers for students in crisis.

CRISIS RESOURCES: 

• Care Solace (Mental Health Services)                       888-515-0595
• 24 Hour Care Crisis Line (VOA)                                  425-258-4357  
• Trevor Project Helpline (LGBTQ)                               866-488-7386 
• Fairfax Behavioral Health                                           425-284-8300   
  • 10200 N.E. 132^nd St., Kirkland, WA (drop in services available) 
• Seattle Children’s Hospital                                         206-987-2195  
  • 4500 40^th Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA (can take directly to ER) 
• Smokey Point Behavioral Hospital                             844-202-5555 
  • 3955 156^th St. N.E., Marysville, WA  
• You can also take your child to any hospital emergency room for evaluation if they have, or are at risk of, harming themselves or someone else 
• Providence Intervention Center for Assault and Abuse   425-252-4800 (24 Hour Crisis Line) 
  • Offers support for children or adults that have been sexually or physically assaulted 
  • You can either call for services or access services through any hospital emergency room 

REFERRAL SERVICES: 

• WA Mental Health Referral Service for Children/Teens    833-303-5437  
  • seattlechildrens.org/WA-mental-health 
  • Connects families with local mental health providers who have openings, can meet your child’s specific needs and accept your insurance 
• Parents Universal Resource Experts (P.U.R.E.)               954-260-0805 or helpyourteens.com 
  • Parents educating parents on long-term placement for difficult or struggling teens 
  • Helps families find the right placement (residential, wilderness, military, etc.) 

LONG TERM BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE: 

• Newport Academy                                                       877-929-5105 or newportacademy.com 
  • Long term behavioral health treatment 
  • There is a teen/young adult facility for males in Port Townsend, WA 
  • A teen/young adult facility for females will open in Kirkland, WA in February, 2020 
• Thira Health                                                                425-454-1199 or thirahealth.com 
  • Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Services 
  • 400 108^th Ave. N.E., Suite 402, Bellevue, WA 
  • Helps manage cravings in a healthy way and get you back on track if you slip 
  • Download app for free on Apple and Android devices 

EATING DISORDER TREATMENT FACILITIES: 

• Center for Discovery                                                     425-441-3609 or centerfordiscovery.com 
  • 11000 NE 33rd Place, Suite 340, Bellevue, WA 98004 
  • Offers partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and residential services 
• Eating Recovery Center                                                 425-276-4332 or eatingrecoverycenter.com 
  • 1231 116th Ave NE, Suite 800, Bellevue, WA 98004 
  • Offers partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and residential services 
• Seattle Children’s                                                         206-987-2028 or seattlechildrens.org/clinics/eating-disorders/ 
  • 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105 
  • Accepts Apple Health insurance                                                

COMMUNITY OUTPATIENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE USE SERVICES (accepts Apple Health insurance): 

• Catholic Community Services                             425-258-5270  or www.ccsww.org 
  • Mental health counseling and youth substance abuse treatment                 
• Compass Health                                                425-349-8200 or compasshealth.org 
  • Mental health counseling only 
• Northshore Youth and Family Services                 425-485-6541 or www.northshoreyouthandfamilyservices.org 
  • Mental health counseling and youth substance abuse treatment 
• SeaMar                                                                        425-977-2560 (Lynnwood location) or www.seamar.org 
  • Mental health counseling; substance abuse treatment in Lynnwood only 
• Therapeutic Health Services                                425-263-3006 or www.ths-wa.org 
  • Substance abuse treatment only 
  • Provides co-occurring disorder treatment (mental health and substance abuse) for families living in the 98012 zip code) 

OUTPATIENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE USE SERVICES WITH PRIVATE INSURANCE: 

• Visit psychologytoday.com/us to find counselors in your area who accept your insurance 
• Visit your insurance website to search for counselors who accept your insurance 
• Local clinics that treat adolescents: 
  • 15418 Main Street, Mill Creek 
  • 16000 Bothell-Everett Hwy, Suite 360, Mill Creek 
  • Everett Clinic Behavioral Health Department           425-339-5453  
  • Mill Creek Family Services                                     425-357-9111 

RESOURCES FOR PARENTS: 

• Cocoon House                                                         425-317-9898 or cocoonhouse.org/prevention 
  • Offers parent education classes, family advocacy and weekend seminars for the family                 
• Domestic Violence Services (24 hr hotline)                425-25-ABUSE or dvs-snoco.org 
  • Offers crisis intervention, safety planning, legal advocacy, information, referrals and counseling 
• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)                 425-347-5365 or namicontact@gmail.com 
  • Support group for parents of youth struggling with any mental illness 
  • Meets 1^st Tuesday of the month 7:00-9:00 PM at 2936 Rockefeller Ave. Everett 
    
    
    *This list is to provide you with potentially available resources in your area, and not as specific recommendations for you and your student. Everett Public Schools has neither reviewed nor approved these local providers. If you choose to engage in services with these providers, you agree to protect, indemnify, and hold harmless the district, its elected and appointed officials, employees, agents, staff and volunteers, from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, expenses, or rights of action, directly or indirectly attributed to such services. 

- Studies have shown that around age 10 parents and adults stop becoming the main influence on children and peers become the most influential. Suddenly it is not "cool" to be seen with mom and dad and what a friend says has much more weight than what a parent says.

- Students at this age are extremely ego centric: Meaning if "Billy" hears someone in the lunch room laugh "Billy" is without a doubt convinced that person is laughing at him. Or if a parent decides to do something that keeps his or her child from having access to a friend that parent did that to keep the friends from interacting.

- Middle School aged students are experiencing very noticeable changes in their bodies. Not only are they more interested in the opposite gender but they are more tired and experience emotions that they may not have had before. This can be very confusing.

- Tomorrow? What is tomorrow? Children this age tend to have little concept of the future. They have trouble making the connection that not working hard in math now will make it likely that they do not have the skills to pass math in high school which would mean they have to take it over or don't graduate which then has it's own ramifications.

- Students now have more teachers and are expected to keep track of work for several days before turning it in. They also are expected to monitor long term projects and learn new concepts on an almost daily basis.

Given all of these issues it is no wonder that Middle School can be a difficult time of life.