Scathing Report Criticizes Care at Burien Youth Mental Health Center

‘Astounding’ problems alleged at Burien youth mental health center

A report revealed grave concerns about the facility, including the neglect of children’s basic needs and potentially excessive use of physical restraints.

Scathing report criticizes care at Burien youth mental health center

In July 2024, Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services opened a youth treatment center it dubbed “the first of its kind.”The Lake Burien Transitional Care facility was supposed to fill an unmet need: treating youth with significant developmental disabilities and mental illnesses in the short term, before sending them back into the community, stabilized and able to live at home with their families.A year and a half later, a report fr…