The COPE Project & Welcome Emme!

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Attend a Free COPE Training with Your Team

The COPE project was developed as a support to enhance our System of Care framework. The project is intended to provide a pathway for Washington State parents who are accessing and navigating the children’s behavioral health system to have peer support to ease their journey, whenever possible.

Support is provided by A Common Voice, a statewide, family-run nonprofit organization that provides advocacy and support for families whose children have intensive behavioral health needs.

Find help through the COPE project

The COPE project is staffed by lead parent support specialists, hired for their lived experience as a parent/caregiver. If you are a Washington State parent/caregiver of a child/youth who may benefit from assistance accessing and navigating behavioral health services, please contact your regional lead parent support specialist.

COPE project services offered:

Important! Services are available regardless of your health insurance status.

One on one support for parents/caregivers accessing and navigating behavioral health services on behalf of your child. Support can be accessed by a phone call or email to the lead parent support specialist for your county.
Support groups provided twice a month for parent that are set up by region and can be accessed below.
Monthly consultation groups designed for employed family peers who are employed in Washington State's behavioral health system and can be accessed.
Assistance to WISe Child and Family Teams (CFTs), upon request, to address their concerns and barriers. The COPE project will track recurring system gaps and barriers and advance them to the local and/or regional FYSPRT.

For more information and an opportunity to attend a support consultation group please visit Health Care Authority.

Welcome Emme Williamson!

We are pleased to announce the recent hiring of Emme Williamson. Emme is the new Administrative Assistant 3 for Student Engagement & Support and the Office of Native Education. Emme holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Emme has worked in a variety of non-profits and joins us with a strong program support background. They are excited to be a part of OSPI.

Please reach out to Emme with warm welcomes, and helpful resources to get started with OSPI!

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