What we're working on

Our core services focus on the following three arenas.

• Individual support
  Providing support to clients who face challenges with addictions or mental illness, and preventing substance abuse and problem gambling.
• Health care quality and costs
  Designing and implementing integrated care systems to improve our clients' health and contain health care costs.
• Administration
  Providing management infrastructure to support administrative functions such as accounting, fiscal, forecasting, contracting, and information technology.

The Statewide Youth Leadership Network (Youth Network)

The Statewide Youth Leadership Network (Youth Network) is a priority for the Health Care Authority (HCA). We learned more about the implementation of this program and will continue to fund infrastructure development of the Youth Network. We will also complete a competitive solicitation process moving forward. Anticipated timeframe for a contract to be in place is 2022.

Current activities

• Block grants

• The Center of Parent Excellence (COPE) project

• Children's Long-term Inpatient Program (CLIP)

• Mental health assessment for young children

• Ricky's Law: Involuntary Treatment Act
• State Opioid Response (SOR) grant

• State Opioid and Overdose Response (SOOR) plan

• State v. Blake: ESB 5476 and behavioral health expansion

• Substance use disorder prevention and mental health promotion
• Washington State Hub and Spoke Project