Consejo Counseling and Referral Service

Mental health: we strive to ensure our clients fully control every aspect of their lives. Our mental health program assists children, adolescents, adults, older adults, and families to identify behavioral health concerns and problem areas in their lives and support them in their recovery efforts. Consejo also supports exploring the possible changes that will propel recovery and wellness to empower clients to make one change at a time while working in a multi-faceted recovery program. Consejo's outpatient mental health programs include screening, assessment, psychiatric evaluations, medication management, individual therapy, group therapy, family support services, case management, and peer support, among other Service modalities.

Substance use disorder (sud): Consejo provides outpatient substance use disorder treatment to medicaid, uninsured, and low-income individuals and families in pierce, king, thurston, mason, snohomish, skagit, whatcom, and san juan counties. Consejo clients are often immigrants, low-income, monolingual, or high-risk youth who benefit from the individual-tailored services. Sud program services include outpatient and intensive outpatient services. Consejo also offers drug and alcohol information school and drug court treatment services.

Behavioral health: Consejo has provided outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment to adults, youth, and children for over 44 years. Our target population is low-income monolingual children, youth, families, adults, and older adults with a multitude of complex behavioral health and medical conditions, including psychotic disorders, bipolar-related disorders, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma, and stressor-related disorders, substance-related and addictive disorders and other mental health disorders. Consejo provides behavioral health services and serves the following communities: king, pierce, thurston, mason and skagit counties. Consejo provides whole-person and bi-directional care, including care coordination for clients needing behavioral health and primary care services. Consejo has partnered with primary care providers in mason county to provide integrated whole-person care services and refer clients to primary care community health centers across Washington state.

Transitional housing: Consejo owns and manages three (3) low-income housing programs. Two housing programs provide domestic violence survivors and their children with a safe home and emotional safety environment. Consejo clients living at the housing facility have access to advocacy-based Counseling, legal advocacy, children advocacy, budget planning, case management, care coordination, and other Consejo and community services. Domestic violence / sexual abuse: Consejo's domestic violence / sexual abuse program provides quality intervention, prevention, and outreach services for non- or limited english-language proficient latino survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes. Consejo's domestic violence services include: safety planning, Counseling, support group, advocacy based Counseling and outreach, and education. In addition, as part of a holistic approach, Consejo also offers bilingual, linguistically accessible, culturally relevant community education and outreach. Children, youth, and family services: Consejo works closely with high-risk youth and their families to formulate a strategic response and provide constructive alternatives to community violence and gang involvement for isolated and disenfranchised youth. Consejo also offers school-based behavioral health services. The mh/sud, outpatient treatment program includes tutoring, mentoring, field trips, summer camps, annual youth conferences, and peer and recovery support services.