Welcome to 2025 with SOUND Behavioral Health! We're thrilled to introduce our updated mission statement and redesigned website. Our mission, "Improving lives by providing equitable, recovery-focused behavioral health care for all in our community," reflects our dedication to addressing healthcare inequities. Explore our new website at www.sound.health for a comprehensive look at our services, how to access care, and ways to support our mission. The site now better represents who we are and the vital work we do. Thank you for being part of our journey toward a more equitable future in behavioral health care.
As we advocate for change, now is the time to reflect on the challenges we face and the solutions ahead. Through the CCBHC model and PPS financing, we aim to transform behavioral health care. Our clinics are leading this effort in Washington with SAMHSA grants.
As we embark on a new year, now is the time to reflect on the journey behind us and our aspirations for the year ahead. In 2023, our organization navigated change, met new challenges, and strengthened our operational efficiency and care delivery.
Words like “lockdown,” “social distancing,” “mask mandates,” and “herd immunity” became our common language in the aftermath of the pandemic. While these words carried significance to us all, another word emerged as Sound’s truth this past year: “resilience.” Our clients, our team members, and our leadership team were faced with ongoing obstacles and hard realities that truly tested us. And revealed a lot about us, too.
Organizationally, Sound prevailed, thrived even, over the past year. The pandemic thrust us into “triage mode,” where we quickly responded to the challenges it presented. We did not hesitate to take care of our team members, by extending paid sick leave and administrative pay for team members who had to stay at home to care for loved ones while working, and provided premium pay levels to team members who, due to client need, worked onsite at our locations. We rapidly outfitted each team member, more than 500 professionals with laptops so that team members could work from home when we all went into lockdown.
"The organization Sound, I recently learned ASL, and I wanted to bring more light on the deaf community, mainly here in Seattle which is basically my second home."
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