Since 2018, when we first started contracting with clinical and community providers, we have asked for twice-yearly updates reporting on progress, challenges and how to mitigate them, and what aspects of innovative work can be sustained without Medicaid Transformation Project dollars. The past two years have been challenging for staff and the people they serve. […]
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Responding to the Inequities in the Opioid Crisis
Megan Tripp, Project Manager In 2022, North Sound ACH partnered with the Department of Health for a pilot project aimed at getting naloxone into the hands of people in the community. The need for community naloxone distribution is greater now than it ever has been before. Over the past 15 years, opioid overdose deaths in the […]
Sadness and anger on racial violence – we must speak up
Shanon R. Hardie, Board Chair The tragedy in Buffalo still weighs heavy on my mind and heart alongside the shootings in Tulsa, LagunaHills, Uvalde and 14 other sites over the Memorial Day weekend. I know it is not new; acts of violenceand racism are inflicted upon our Black friends, neighbors, co-workers, families, and communities everyday […]
Find and strive for our ‘universal goal’
Liz’s Note, May 2022 newsletter Such tumultuous emotions this week … I happen to live one block uphill from an elementary school, and every morning I hear the background noise of children arriving and entering the school building. On Wednesday morning I stood and intentionally listened to those sounds instead of leaving them in the […]
Gratitude and reciprocity this Spring
April 22 was Earth Day and it was appropriate to spend part of the day standing with our colleagues and partners of Children of the Setting Sun as they modeled what it means to be stewards of this planet we call home – Mother Earth. There were two themes that stuck with me as I […]


