Evergreen Treatment Services

08/04/2026

DESC and community partners are hosting an event on Friday, August 28!

Bringing together community members, substance use disorder providers, and people with lived experience, this event will honor those lost to overdose, help raise awareness, and center those with lived experience.

This year’s theme, “Overdose is Preventable When We Act,” highlights the importance of education, resources, and connection around overdose prevention and substance use disorder treatment.

💜 Date: Friday, August 28
💜 Time: 1-4 p.m.
💜 Location: City Hall Park, Seattle

We hope you’ll join us!

Evergreen Treatment Services | We Care Daily Clinics

08/03/2026

Thank you for the shout out, Mission Mobile Medical!

Not everyone can get to a clinic.

Distance, transportation, and everyday life can all get in the way.

That’s the beauty of mobile clinics, they flip the whole idea around and bring care directly to people, wherever they already are.

Evergreen Treatment Services (ETS) has been doing this across Western Washington for more than 50 years, meeting people with respect and showing up right where they’re needed.

08/01/2026

With a statewide recidivism rate of 37 percent, people in North Carolina are looking for solutions. Two communities are testing something simple: give people leaving prison a little money each month and see what happens.

The early results are noteworthy. In Mecklenburg County's RAMP Up program, more than two-thirds of participants were in temporary or transitional housing when they enrolled. A year later, 69 percent were in permanent housing. Only 5 percent had been re-arrested. In Durham's ROOTED program, 107 people are receiving monthly payments they can use however they need—rent, a car repair, a reinstated driver's license, clothes for a new job.

It aligns with how we approach our work: people can't build a life while they're consumed by survival. Stability comes first. And people know what they need better than a program does.

We see it every day in Seattle. It's hard to stay engaged in treatment when you don't know where you're sleeping. Or hold a job without an ID or a way to get there. Removing those obstacles isn't charity—it's what makes everything else possible.

Read the reporting from NC Health News: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2026/07/06/two-nc-local-governments-test-guaranteed-income-formerly-incarcerated/

Pilot programs in Durham and Mecklenburg provide monthly payments to formerly incarcerated residents to improve reentry and reduce recidivism.

07/23/2026

Half of all fatal overdoses in the U.S. now involve stimulants like methamphetamine and co***ne. A recent LA Times opinion piece makes the case for contingency management, which pairs treatment with modest incentives for negative drug tests. A Stanford review of 157 co***ne trials found it was the one intervention with clear clinical benefit. In the VA system, patients in these programs were 41 percent less likely to die within a year than a comparable group who weren't.

Soon, our South Sound Clinic will launch a contingency management pilot in partnership with Washington State University. We look forward to piloting what could be a new tool in our toolbox that can help to meet our neighbors where they are with evidence informed treatment.

Many Americans would resist using tax dollars to pay people to stay sober. But that's the approach the data suggest.

07/22/2026

🎉💜  REACH Turns 30 Today! 💜  🎉 For three decades, REACH outreach workers have walked trails into the woods, crossed encampments in the rain, and called out across clusters of tents: “Outreach—anyone home?”

REACH was born from a hard truth: that traditional social service systems often fail the people most in need of their support. From the start, REACH recognized this and chose to work differently. To go to people rather than wait for them to come in. To move at the speed of trust. To stay as long as it takes.

That approach has held for thirty years. Through challenges like COVID, racial reckonings, and cuts to funding, REACH has been committed to what works: meet people where they are, honor their choices, and keep showing up.

Read our blog to celebrate this big milestone! Link in bio.

07/22/2026

REACH turns 30 today!

For three decades, REACH outreach workers have walked trails into the woods, crossed encampments in the rain, and called out across clusters of tents, “Outreach—anyone home?”

REACH was born from a hard truth: traditional social service systems often fail the people most in need of support. From the beginning, REACH chose to work differently—to go to people rather than wait for them to come in, to move at the speed of trust, and to stay as long as it takes.

That approach has held for thirty years. Through challenges like COVID, racial reckonings, and cuts to funding, REACH has stayed grounded in what works: meeting people where they are, honoring their choices, and continuing to show up.

Join us in celebrating this milestone and learning more about the impact of relationship-centered outreach on our blog: https://www.evergreentreatment.org/blog/2026/07/21/thirty-years-of-reach/

REACH was born from a hard truth: that traditional social service systems often fail the people most in need of their support. From the start, REACH recognized this and chose to work differently. To go to people rather than wait for them to come in. To move at the speed of trust. To stay as long as....

07/20/2026

A new substance use treatment facility on Vashon Island will soon be the largest residential center of its kind in King County.

07/20/2026