
Taylor Blatchford
Engagement Reporter, Investigations at Seattle Times
engagement reporter covering mental health @SeattleTimes • MA in journalism education from @KentStateMDJ • always baking or reading • she/her
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6 days ago |
seattletimes.com | Taylor Blatchford
The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for children and families. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over work produced by this team. Washington was one of the earliest states to pass legislation funding 988, the suicide and crisis lifeline, and a new study shows it’s also among the states using the lifeline the most.
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Taylor Blatchford
A crash on Interstate 90 east of Preston left a pedestrian dead just after noon, closing the westbound highway for more than three hours, the Washington State Patrol said Thursday. A 42-year-old man driving a black Toyota Sequoia was driving on the left shoulder of the highway when he hit and killed a 66-year-old man standing in the shoulder, the State Patrol said in a news release. The driver continued for another mile before his car became disabled on the right shoulder.
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Taylor Blatchford |Denisa R. Superville
Thousands of Seattleites celebrated Juneteenth and lifted up community at events and festivals Thursday, even as national leaders attack diversity initiatives and Black history. Juneteenth — combining “June” and “nineteenth” — marks the day, June 19, 1865, that formerly enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned slavery had been abolished. In 2021, Congress designated it a federal holiday.
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3 weeks ago |
tri-cityherald.com | Taylor Blatchford
Involuntary mental health treatment is meant to provide vital care to people in dire need of treatment. It also raises ethical questions about when it's acceptable to strip someone of their civil liberties. In a story published Sunday, reporter Jayati Ramakrishnan examined the dilemmas plaguing the state's involuntary treatment system - and why efforts to improve it haven't worked.
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3 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Taylor Blatchford
The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for children and families. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over work produced by this team. Involuntary mental health treatment is meant to provide vital care to people in dire need of treatment.
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The @UW will soon try a new approach to helping students and employees in mental health crises, based on a philosophy that’s become increasingly mainstream: Mental health professionals are better equipped than police to respond to some emergencies. https://t.co/S6u06oonPg

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Three months after a new walk-in center for people in crisis opened in Kirkland, its operators say things are running smoothly, but it’s served fewer patients than expected. What can King County learn as it plans to open five centers with the same model? https://t.co/0zkAeUJDwN