In August, Evergreen Treatment Services and REACH hosted several events to honor International Overdose Awareness Day. Staff joined Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) and other community partners at Occidental Park,...
In honor of International Overdose Awareness Day, ETS hosted “Together We Can,” a remembrance event for those who’ve died by overdose. Together, our community called for collective action to improve...
Saturday, August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD). IOAD is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember those we’ve lost, and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left...
In July, ETS announced that a third vehicle would join the Treatment in Motion (TIM) program. The newest addition to the TIM fleet will serve people in the Pioneer Square...
Image description: Brandie Flood (in the left-middle wearing a blue shirt) surrounded by peers at the ETS 50th anniversary celebration. For fifty years, Evergreen Treatment Services has had the privilege...
Image description: ETS purchased the Seattle Clinic building at 1700 Airport Way S, making the organization first-time property owners and ensuring a consistent presence in the community. Evergreen Treatment Services...
Image description: ETS hosts US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. The visit was part of his national “Turn the Tide on Addiction” campaign to discuss initiatives to combat the opioid...
Image description: Molly Carney in dosing line at the Seattle clinic for an interview with PSBJ. For fifty years, Evergreen Treatment Services has had the privilege of serving the...
For fifty years, Evergreen Treatment Services has had the privilege of serving the greater Puget Sound community. Since first opening its doors in 1973, much has changed about ETS. But...
For fifty years, Evergreen Treatment Services has had the privilege of serving the greater Puget Sound community. Since first opening its doors in 1973, much has changed about ETS. But...
I had been homeless for several years, but that night I did one thing I’d never done before. I slept on a bus bench in front of a heavily trafficked...
Image caption: ETS expanded to 1700 Airport Way in 1997, the current location of our Seattle clinic! Pictured in 1938. Evergreen Treatment Services (ETS) has been transforming lives and...
Image caption: Ron Jackson, directly left of sign, at a methadone clinic in Corpus Christi, TX (Ron Jackson, personal collection) For fifty years, Evergreen Treatment Services has had the...
For fifty years, Evergreen Treatment Services has had the privilege of serving the greater Puget Sound community. Since first opening its doors in 1973, much has changed about ETS. But...
For fifty years, Evergreen Treatment Services has had the privilege of serving the greater Puget Sound community. Since first opening its doors in 1973, much has changed about ETS. But...
Photo credit: Ted Zee A harm reduction approach to substance use means making appropriate services accessible to the people who can most benefit from them. It also means recognizing that...
Photo credit: Ted Zee for Evergreen Treatment Services Housing is a complex process. We spoke with Bonnie Rico, a Housing Specialist with REACH, to learn more about what it...
King County launches the online campaign “Don’t Count Us Out” which aims to reduce the stigma around substance use disorder (SUD). Across the United States, substance use remains stigmatized and...
ETS is committed to harm reduction. A core tenet of this approach is "meeting people where they are." To live out this commitment, ETS shows up in different spaces to...
Kimá Joy Taylor, MD, MPH, is the founder and managing principal of Anka Consulting, a health care consulting firm, and a non-resident fellow at the Urban Institute. Eliminating health disparities...
Our clinic staff show up every day supporting patients on their road to recovery. | Photo credit: Paul Ishii More than 81,000 people died from overdose in the United States...
Evergreen Treatment Services, as part of its commitment to providing evidence-informed, relationship-centered care deeply rooted in harm reduction and social equity, is learning and evolving! We are working to further...
Since its inception as a program of Evergreen Treatment Services in 1996, REACH has worked to improve the quality of life for adults who are living outside in the greater...
“Care, respect, funding, and coordination are the needed alternatives to fear, anger, and sweeping encampments away.” By Betsy Wells, ETS Board member— I serve on the Board of Evergreen...
A seamless transition from the criminal legal system is nearly impossible without the right support in place. As Jeremy Lemoine puts it, “Even if you have all the willpower in...
All of our patients have a story. We recently sat down with Sherry to hear the story of how she overcame the traumatic events of her early life to become...
This month is REACH’s 25th anniversary. We interviewed the four REACH directors to highlight each of the mission areas — community justice, outreach, integrated care, and housing. Brandie Flood is...
Header photo courtesy of the CoLEAD program and Minea Herwitz This month is the 25th anniversary of REACH. Throughout the month we will be interviewing the four new REACH...
This month is the 25th anniversary of REACH. To mark the occasion, we’re interviewing our four new REACH directors to highlight the organization’s mission areas. Karen Salinas is the Director...
This month is the 25th anniversary of REACH. Throughout the month we will interview our four new REACH directors to highlight each of our mission areas. Michelle Conley is the...
Becky Gilley does outreach with our unhoused community in the SODO neighborhood of Seattle. Becky has been with the REACH program since 2016, she is currently an outreach care...
Start making a difference for the people ETS serves right now! Make hygiene kits at home and contact info@evergreentreatment.org to coordinate a drop-off. A hygiene kit can include: Shampoo/Conditioner Body...
The numbers don’t lie. Despite making up only six percent of the overall population in King County, 39 percent of people who are unhoused are from Black and Indigenous communities....
At our 3rd Annual Event: Roots of Recovery, King 5's Mark Wright interviewed journalist and author Maia Szalavitz. Among many topics in this dynamic interview, Maia discussed what's wrong with...
One of ETS’ core principles—and a principle of harm reduction more broadly—is to meet people where they are. Figuratively, this means meeting people where they are on their recovery journeys...
Brandie Flood has been serving people who struggle with homelessness and drug use for more than ten years at REACH. Brandie was born and raised in the Rainier Beach neighborhood...
By Michelle Conley and Brandie Flood, REACH program— Incarceration and recidivism rates in King County make clear that our overreliance on policing and the criminal legal system is failing....
Evergreen Treatment Services is training all clinic staff—from counselors to public safety—in the practice of motivational interviewing (MI). ETS believes in having a common language and approach for our team...
Evergreen Treatment Services Board of Directors live in King, Snohomish, and Pierce Counties, and we oversee and steward one of our region’s most needed and trusted resources. ETS supports thousands...
We want to give you an inside look at our response to the COVID-19 crisis from the points of view of our incredible staff. They’ve been working together to keep...
Photo credit: Jim Meyers, Vertizon Photography “U District Partnership got a call from a business that a woman was in obvious emotional and mental health distress was outside of their...
We're excited to launch Treatment in Transit! Our life-saving treatment will be traveling to our patients in the University District, Belltown, and North Seattle. The program is expected to start...
Many people start down the road to addiction with a prescription from their doctors to manage pain – from getting a tooth pulled to major surgery to deal with chronic...
By Chloe Gale, REACH Co-Director and Sean Soth, Director of Clinical Services— If you haven’t seen the recent KOMO special “Seattle is Dying,” watch it with a skeptical eye....
Candis Dover is ETS’s first peer engagement counselor, supporting patients in their earliest days of recovery. She knows exactly where many of these patients are coming from; Candis has had...
Ben started using at a young age while living with his mom in his hometown of Spokane. It started with abusing medication to treat his anxiety. He soon moved on...
One morning while doing outreach in downtown Seattle, one of our REACH care managers, Garrett, met a woman who was packing up a bedroll into her Harley Davidson three-wheeled motorcycle....
Six days a week for 52 weeks a year, nearly 3,000 people come from all over Western Washington to Evergreen Treatment Services to get the support they need to recover...
REACH case managers are steadfast in their support of clients. They meet them where they are, and forge partnerships with the community to achieve the best possible outcomes. Jerry and...
Originally published on SeattleTimes.com, May 17, 2016. Naloxone can mean the difference between life and death, but it’s not easy to get. By Molly Carney and Michelle Peavy, Special...