Vision & Goals
Washington Thriving is building a behavioral health system where every young person can grow, learn, and belong. By adapting proven practices and focusing on prevention, we aim for fewer crises, faster access to care, and services that reflect real lives.
Vision
Washington Thriving envisions a future where every pregnant person, baby, child, youth, and young adult is thriving, supported by their caregivers, families, and communities. The Washington Thriving Advisory Group developed a detailed vision and guiding principles for the system that will realize this future.
Our Goals
The vision touches every aspect of behavioral health—from prevention to crisis response, from individual care to system coordination. The richness of this vision translates into five overarching goals that capture our most essential work.
Focus on what matters
Ensure services, supports, and policies reflect the strengths, desires, and needs of each young person, caregiver, family, and member of the workforce.
Serve Washingtonians equitably
Ensure access and quality across the state with extra attention and resources directed toward people who face the greatest barriers and disadvantages.
Expand upstream
Build strong wellness foundations, prevention, and early supports while strengthening, not losing, intensive services for young people with the most complex needs.
Strengthen the foundation
Ensure a connected, coordinated, collaborative, informed, adaptive, accountable, values-driven, and sustainable behavioral health ecosystem.
Make help easy to find and get
Deliver coordinated, accessible, effective services and supports across a full continuum of comprehensive offerings, connected to the places where young people, caregivers, and families spend their time.