Child & Family Counseling & Mental Health Services
RAYS is a Washington State licensed mental health center and provides individual and family counseling for families with children and youth ages birth to age 18. Services involve parents and their children utilizing a family systems perspective and play therapy for younger children.
Expertise
RAYS staff has expertise in working with people of diverse cultural backgrounds, with specialists on staff and qualified consultants. Staff have expertise in working with the variety of family types in today's world, including foster families, grandparents raising grandchildren and homes of relative placements. RAYS staff includes master's level trained therapists and bachelor's level trained case managers with significant experience working with a broad spectrum of issues including, but not limited to the following:
- Behavior problems
- Anger management
- Domestic violence/child abuse
- Child abuse prevention
- Depression
- Loss
Services
RAYS works closely with families and communities to build on the strengths and improve the emotional and behavioral health of children and family functioning in a variety of settings.
- Agency Based
- School Based
- Community Based
- Case Management / Community Support
- 24 Hour On-call Crisis Services
Individual and family counseling are available at our main site in downtown Renton.
RAYS maintains offices in both the Tukwila and Renton elementary, middle and high schools to both: 1) increase the accessibility of services to children/youth and families and 2) partner with school district staff to work as a comprehensive team to optimize a child's/youth's emotional/behavioral functioning, improving both their academic success and functioning in life overall.
School based services include individual, group and family counseling and case management services. For service sites please visit our locations link.
At times families face barriers to accessing services. On an individual basis it may be determined that services be best delivered in an alternative community setting or the family's home.
Case Management / Community Support
RAYS agency, school and community based services may include case management and advocacy to connect children and families with resources and supports within the community. Case management includes contacts to community services such as medical and dental needs, clothing, food, housing, assistance with referrals and serving as a liaison between clients and community. Case management/community support services are provided based on the individual needs of the child/youth/family.
24 Hour On-call Crisis Services
Children and Youth who participate in services through the Washington State Medicaid system have 24 hour on-call mental health crisis services available through RAYS.