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Question 12: "I am looking for a sex offender treatment provider.  How can I find one in the Seattle or Eastside area?"

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Sex Offender Treatment Providers

I searched the Washington State Department of Health web site for information about sex offender treatment and certified sex offender treatment providers and couldn’t come up with any answers.  In desperation, I emailed the Washington State Library's “Ask a Librarian” service, asking, “How can the courts sentence people to treatment that no one can find?” Floyd Else, Webmaster

[ The Washington State Library responded. ]

Sex offender treatment providers in WA are licensed by the WA Dept. of Health's Health Professions Quality Assurance Sex Offender Treatment Provider Program.

While the Dept. of Health does have a Provider Credential Lookup System on their website, they do not have lists of credentialed providers. In order to use the lookup system you need to know the name or credential number of an individual provider.

-Find a sex offender treatment provider / counselor--

Also see "Need a Referral?" on the Washington Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers website.  [Thanks to Rodney Jong, MS, LMFT, CASOTP.]

The Health Professions Quality Assurance Customer Service Center has a booklet that contains a list of credentialed sex offender treatment providers. To request a copy of the booklet, contact them directly at (360) 236-4700 (press 6 to speak to a customer service representative) or email: Customer Service.

Sex offenders may also request treatment information from the court that sentenced them or from their probation officer.

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PS:  Several months after posting the above response on CounselingSeattle.com, I did a search for "sex offender treatment Washington State" and was able to find a web page for Washington State Department of Health, Sex Offender Treatment Provider Program page with links to laws, complaint info, publications, fees, contact information committee info, licensing requirements, provider credential search, and more. (A big improvement DOH!)

    

           

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