We never give up on people
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...
Harm Reduction
2020s: COVID-19, Racial Reckoning, and Fentanyl Crisis Frame the Way Forward
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...
2010s: The Second Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
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...
It is our obligation to speak truth to power
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...
We Are Committed to Providing High-Quality Care
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...
Whatever It Takes To Keep Patients In Treatment
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...
The Strength to Love People Until They Love Themselves
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...
1990s: The HIV Epidemic and Harm Reduction
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...
Harm reduction is treatment
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...
Treating People With Dignity
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...
A cheerleader for our patients
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...
Five Recovery Lessons from ETS Staff and Clients
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...
Helping clients visualize what they want
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...
Don’t Count Us Out
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...
Photo Essay: Meeting People Where They Are
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...
Define What Recovery Means To You
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...
International Overdose Awareness Day
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...
Trauma-informed Care at the Seattle Clinic
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...
REACH at PRIDE: We must repair how we treat our unhoused neighbors
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...
A Window into the World of the Outreach Team
“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...
Helping People Get Their Lives Back
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...
“This place saved my life”
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...
“The people we serve are not ‘other.’ They could be any of us.”
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...
“Having a place to call home isn’t something you earn”
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...
“I wish Seattleites would self reflect, have compassion, and project empathy toward unsheltered people”
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...
“Every human being has a stake in our mission”
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...
Changing lives through trust, outreach, and treatment
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...
Small ways to make a big impact
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...
“We live here. We give here.”
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....
We need to start over with drug policy | Interview with Maia Szalavitz
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...
Pop-up services in a pandemic
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...
“Love them anyway”—Thoughts on Racial Equity, Harm Reduction, and Showing Up
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...
We cannot treat harm with harm
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....
Motivational Interviewing at ETS
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...
From the ETS Board of Directors: Black Lives Matter. We Stand in Solidarity.
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’re finally treating homelessness as a crisis
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...
Why neighborhood-based outreach is the best response to homelessness
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 taking our life-saving treatment on the road!
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...
Preventing the Spread of Hepatitis C
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...
What’s Working in Seattle
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....
The Heart Reaches The Heart
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...
“I was such a different person. I had no hope.”
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...
Ride on to Recovery
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....
Recovery is Possible
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...
A Helping Hand Leads to Housing
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...
Seattle Times: A lifesaving drug for opioid users, but it’s not easy to get
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...