We’re building an on-site behavioral health center at Camp Hope

Comprehensive Healthcare recently received more than $1 million in Washington state funding to build an innovative onsite behavioral health service center and transitional housing at Camp Hope - a low-barrier emergency homeless encampment in Yakima, Washington. Camp Hope meets the safety, shelter, clothing and food needs of more than 180 people each day. Comprehensive Healthcare will treat clients who live at Camp Hope and suffer from complex behavioral health and substance abuse challenges.

The service center will be built from low-cost, long lasting and easily movable shipping containers. At the site, our staff will provide therapy and other outpatient behavioral health services, coordinate healthcare needs and more to support residents at the camp. In doing so, we will decrease barriers and provide equitable access to behavioral healthcare for the region’s most vulnerable populations.

“We’re proud to partner with Camp Hope to provide solutions to our region’s most pressing economic, social and health challenges,” said Jodi Daly, president and chief executive officer of Comprehensive Healthcare.

This is a new and refreshing approach to behavioral health services that hasn’t been done in other places. “For those facing homelessness, the ability to service community members on-site, where they live, is a game changer,” said Mike Kay, executive director of Camp Hope.