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DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center)
Mental Health Care
Seattle, WA 4,790 followers
Housing and Health to End Homelessness
About us
DESC works to end the homelessness of vulnerable people, particularly those living with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders. Through partnerships and an integrated array of comprehensive services, treatment and housing, we give people the opportunity to reach their highest potential. DESC is the largest multi-service agency serving homeless adults in the Pacific Northwest, reaching over 9,000 people annually with an array of state-licensed mental health and substance abuse treatment programs—including street outreach and engagement, crisis diversion and respite, case management, short-term and ongoing care, psychiatric assessment and treatment, supported employment, individual and group substance abuse counseling, 468 emergency shelter beds, and over 1,100 units of permanent supportive housing. DESC adheres to the Housing First philosophy, the belief that housing is a basic human right, not a reward for clinical success and once the chaos of homelessness is eliminated from a person's life, clinical and social stabilization occur faster and are more enduring. DESC's innovative programs have earned recognition regionally and nationally. Every day at DESC we see what innovative clinical care and supportive housing can do: people who have been homeless for years regain their health, their dignity and their humanity. They reconnect with parents, children, brothers, sisters. They make friends, rediscover interests, and find work or other meaningful activity. And when they recover their lives, the quality of life is improved for all of us. Our community becomes a better place in which to live and work.
- Website
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http://desc.org
External link for DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center)
- Industry
- Mental Health Care
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Seattle, WA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1979
- Specialties
- Emergency Shelter, Mental Health & Chemical Dependency Services, Permanent Supportive Housing, Day Center, Crisis Diversion, and Employment Support Program
Locations
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Primary
515 Third Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104, US
Employees at DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center)
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Sondra Nielsen
Director of Facilities and Asset Management at DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center)
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Lucinda Rowley
Chemical Dependency Case Manager at DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center)
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Christopher Wright
Author, IT Business Leader, Mentor
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Deborah O'Neal
One of many Champions in Helping the Homeless!
Updates
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We're #hiring a new Mental Health Professional (MHP) Case Manager in Seattle, Washington. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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We're #hiring a new Intake and Care Coordination MHP in Seattle, Washington. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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https://lnkd.in/eJ-hUtvu Put this on your calendar now--Friday, Oct. 18, 7-10 p.m., is the 16th annual Gimme Shelter concert to support DESC's amazing programs! We had so much fun with The Dusty 45s at the Century Ballroom last year that we're going back. Watch for registration details to come! (Photo courtesy of Tosin Arasi)
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https://lnkd.in/gSWy-5g4 "Lost Patients compares the system for treating mental illness in America to an elaborate house, where every room, hallway and staircase was designed independently by a different architect. So what is it like to be shuttled from room to room? What sorts of tradeoffs are doctors working within this system forced to make every day? And what might it look like to design care around the needs of patients?" KUOW Public Radio and The Seattle Times wrapped up their "Lost Patients" series this spring with a panel of experts on the mental health system, including our own Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health, Timothy Jolliff. It's well worth an hour of your time! (And you'll want to listen to the whole series, too.)
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We’re #hiring #Registered #Nurses in Seattle, WA. Know anyone who qualifies and/or might be interested? Please feel free to apply and share this with your colleagues and friends for further reach.
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JAILING PEOPLE FOR HAVING NO PLACE TO GO IS CRUEL AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. SCOTUS's Johnson v. Grants Pass ruling to allow laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties elevates the need for DESC’s long-term solutions, Housing First and Permanent Supportive Housing. The perspectives we shared in an April post drew on our long experience and evidence to show that people will accept something better for themselves if it meets their needs. Read more on our website: https://lnkd.in/gfY4bevS #JohnsonVGrantsPass
Johnson v. Grants Pass ruling elevates need for DESC’s long-term solutions
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https://lnkd.in/gn_2h3Jf Ed has been a DESC tenant for eight years. Hear him describe his experience, and how permanent supportive housing gave him the stability he needed to find a space for healing and growth. He has this advice for new tenants: "It was six months to a year before everything kind of settled down from being outside. Use the resources that are available to you."
Meet Ed
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We're excited to see this! https://lnkd.in/grfesjTG
Harm Reduction R & Tx Center on Instagram: "Please join us to celebrate art, community, and healing on June 11th, from 4-6pm at the UW School of Social Work (4101 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105). We will showcase pieces from the LEAP Artist Collective around the theme of "Belonging". Hope to see you there!!! #artcommunity #healingthroughart #leapcollective #belonging #artshow"
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BURIEN, Wash. (May 23, 2024)–We’re welcoming tenants into our new Bloomside permanent supportive housing, the first DESC housing built outside of the city of Seattle! At full capacity, 95 people living with disabilities and experiencing long-term homelessness, will have brand new homes with full wrap-around services in Burien. We celebrated the grand opening of Bloomside on May 23 with remarks from King County Councilmember for District 8 Teresa Mosqueda, DESC Executive Director Daniel Malone, President and CEO of the King County Housing Authority Robin Walls and Acting Director of DCHS Kelly Rider, followed by an open house and public tours of this beautiful building. DESC Director of Organizational Equity Rhonda Banchero was our emcee Read Daniel's remarks here: https://lnkd.in/gGHMGPEX #housingfirst #permanentsupportivehousing #endhomelessness