NSMHA Mission Statement

We join together to enhance our community's mental health and support recovery for people with mental illness served in the North Sound region, through high quality culturally competent services.

The NSMHA is committed to:

1. Ensuring that the mental health system of the five counties is "consumer-driven."
2. Ensuring that consumers receive services that meet their individual needs appropriately.
3. The development and management of an Integrated Delivery System.
4. Ensuring that services are accessible and locally available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
5. Ensuring that services are culturally sensitive, appropriate and built on recipient strengths.
6. Treating people with mental illness with respect and dignity.
7. The provision of services that are community based and designed to assist the individual maintain an optimal level of functioning.

Contact Information

Telephone

NSMHA Office:  (360) 416-7013 or
(800) 684-3555 Toll-free

Ombuds: Toll-free 1-888-336-6164

Crisis Line:  (800) 584-3578

If there is a life-threatening emergency, please dial 911.  Crisis Services and Commitment Services are available 24-hours a day, seven days a week to anyone in the North Sound Region.  Crisis Services include:

• Crisis Telephone Line
• Crisis Outreach
• Involuntary Treatment Investigations
• Crisis Respite Services where appropriate
• Assistance in hospitalization if medically necessary

To Access Mental Health Services
Access Line: (888) 693-7200

Outpatient Services are accessed through the centralized access center.  The Outpatient Access Center is open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Outpatient services are provided by eight licensed community mental health centers across the North Sound Region to people with a Medicaid mental health benefit and to low-income people as resources are available.  All people with Medicaid are entitled to an assessment.  Ongoing mental health services are provided to people who meet the State-wide Access to Care Standards.  Outpatient services include assessment, individual, family, and group treatment services plus high intensity treatment, club houses, drop-in-centers, residential treatment, Assertive Community Treatment, and all medically necessary mental health services.

Inpatient Certification: (800) 707-4656

TTY:  (360) 419-9008

FAX:  (360) 416-7017

Postal address

NSMHA Office: 
117 North First Street, Suite 8
Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Ombuds:
330 Pacific Place
PO Box 1507
Mount Vernon, WA 98273

E-mail

Email NSMHA Staff

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