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2025 WASHINGTON BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE CONFERENCE
June 11*-13, 2025    Kennewick, WA
ADVANCING THE FUTURE OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

We invite you to join us at the 35th annual Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference!
Registration is open – click HERE to register or click HERE to download the brochure!

*June 11 is the pre-conference day and conference sessions start first thing Thursday morning, June 12 – see the brochure for the full schedule.

We look forward to providing an opportunity for the behavioral health community to come together, to share best practices about life-saving treatment and supports, and to feel inspired about being the helpers. Although our state and nation face new uncertainties, the need for behavioral health services and resiliency is higher than ever. Our focus remains on the vital importance of expanding access to behavioral health care, including community-based treatment and peer support services. We must continue to address the effects of structural racism and include new and diverse voices who are essential to helping shape our path forward and meeting the needs of all Washingtonians.

We’ll weave these themes together when we meet in Kennewick, hearing from community providers, regional and national experts, and people with lived experience to share their wisdom, knowledge, and tools. We’re especially excited to introduce the 2025 WBHC keynote speakers:

  • Nora McInerny, an author, creator & podcaster who specializes in difficult conversations, including on resilience & grief
  • Stephen Loyd, MD, an expert on the treatment of opioid use disorders
  • James Forman, Jr., a professor at Yale Law School & Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime & Punishment in Black America

We hope you’ll join us in Kennewick!

Questions? Contact Alison Avery at aavery@thewashingtoncouncil.org or (206) 306-3712.

The Washington Council for Behavioral Health is grateful for funding from the Health Care Authority & the Department of Corrections.

Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Ready to register? Click HERE!

Exhibit space for 2025 has sold out – you can email Alison at aavery@thewashingtoncouncil.org to be added to the wait list in case there are any cancellations.

Questions?

Contact Alison Avery, Director of Conference Planning & Project Management at (206) 628-4608 x12 or aavery@thewashingtoncouncil.org

If you’d like to be added to the email list to receive info on attending or exhibiting at the WBHC, contact Alison at aavery@thewashingtoncouncil.org and specify which email list you’d like to be added to.

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