Child & Family Services
By helping children, teens and their families discover their resilience and capacity for recovery, we foster healing and hope. In schools, in homes, and in children’s care centers, we help young people and their families overcome the effects of poverty, violence, mental illness, and substance abuse. Our counselors provide a range of culturally appropriate therapies, including family therapy, play therapy for younger children, and both individual and group therapy for older children teens.
Infant Mental Health
Mental Illness is often overlooked in children and adolescents—an oversight that costs us all. Studies show that for every dollar spent on early intervention with at-risk children, about seven dollars are saved by society later—in mental health treatment, law enforcement, health care, and incarceration. Our Infant Mental Health program serves children and families struggling to heal from mental illness, violence, addiction, abuse and poverty. Our therapists, certified in infant mental health treatment, create a treatment plan that supports the whole family. We work closely with parents or caregivers, often in their own home, to help them develop the confidence and skills to care for and bond with their children. We also offer “wraparound” services, helping clients connect to resources such as housing, food, diapers, assistance navigating government agencies, and more.
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Ruth Dykeman Children's Center
In 2010, we merged with Ruth Dykeman Children’s Center, an agency that for more than 80 years has served mentally ill children and their families through residential as well as home- and community-based services. Pooling resources enabled both Navos and Ruth Dykeman to dramatically extend their services to families in King County.
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