Grant Recipients

The Empowering Youth Mentor Program matches volunteer mentors with mentees aged 8-21, offering one-to-one community-based mentoring. Mentors serve as positive role models, providing friendship and support to youth referred by professionals in juvenile justice, schools, and social services.

Kent Police Department prioritizes the care and protection of youth, including through the Kent Drug Free Coalition, which brings together parents, youth, businesses, and community stakeholders to enhance protective factors.

The Moses Lake Community Coalition is a grassroots volunteer organization dedicated to improving community health and wellness by preventing youth substance use, promoting mental health, and strengthening families through education, outreach, and collaborative programs.

NWESD 189 provides a centralized point of services and information relevant to K-12 education in Northwest Washington, including supporting schools in preventing substance use and promoting mental health.

The Rayce Rudeen Foundation works to prevent overdose by addressing gaps in substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services. This includes projects such as the Spokane Alliance for Fentanyl Education, overdose response training, and youth mentorship.

Safe Yakima Valley is a county-wide convening organization that builds strategic partnerships, facilitates collaborative planning efforts, and coordinates resources to reduce drug availability and accessibility and drug-related crimes.

TOGETHER! advances the health and well-being of young people through direct service youth programs, mobilization of communities through coalitions, advocacy for healthier environments, and promotion of health through community and individual education.

United General District 304 improves community health through its focus on six areas of wellbeing: Active Living, Community & Professional Education, Engaged Youth & Communities, Healthy Eating, Thriving Children & Families, and Stewarding Assets & Opportunities.

Chai Rivers Recovery Café offers community-based recovery-oriented support and resources to help end the devastating effects of drugs, alcohol, substance use disorder and other destructive patterns in Cowlitz County.

Gather Church operates a licensed childcare center, care coordination, Foundational Community Supports, a recovery navigator program, a parenting program, a low-barrier Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) clinic, and mobile harm reduction in Lewis County.

The Kitsap County Adult Drug Court is a treatment-based program for adults who are charged with certain felony and/or misdemeanor/gross misdemeanor crimes and facing criminal prosecution.

Pierce County Alliance provides substance use disorder outpatient treatment service, with a focus on the offender population. It has had an integral role in the planning and implementation of Pierce County’s drug courts.

Pioneer Human Services’ Emerson Clinic provides intensive outpatient services to individuals in Spokane struggling with substance use disorders, including drug court participants.

R.I.S.E. (Recovery, Integrity, Support, and Empowerment) Recovery provides recovery housing to adult men struggling with substance use disorder, including unstably housed Skagit County Adult Drug Court participants.

Yakima County Adult Drug Court helps individuals suffering from addiction to find a path to recovery that allows them to live a healthy, fulfilling life that is free from drug and alcohol use and criminal behavior.