Housing Stability & Food Security

Below is summary information for the human services programs funded by the City in 2020 that support housing stability and food security.

GOAL AREA 1 - AT A GLANCE
Funds Allocated for 2019-2020	$732,132
Organizations Funded	14
BIPOC Organizations	1
Client Racial & Ethnic Identity	Count	Percentage
American Indian/Alaska Native	18	<1%
Asian/Asian American	312	8%
Black/African American	372	10%
Latino/Hispanic	801	21%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	30	1%
White/Caucasian	1,379	36%
Other	26	1%
Multi-Racial	156	4%
Unknown	687	18%
Total Clients Served	3,781

 

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Organization:  Attain Housing

Program: Stable Home

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $30,000

Program Overview:  Helps both families with children with staying housed during a financial emergency as well as assisting families obtain housing.

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Organization: Catholic Community Services of King County

Program: Emergency Assistance Program

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $5,000

Program Overview: Motel vouchers and case management are available to families who are homeless. All households receive financial counseling and referrals to additional resources. In addition, bus tickets, food, clothing, and hygiene items are available.

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Organization: Catholic Community Services of King County

Program: New Bethlehem Day Center

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $100,000

Program Overview:  New Bethlehem Day Center’s (NBDC) mission is to extend welcome to families in need of an anchoring place. NBDC invites families experiencing homelessness to come inside and access stability-oriented services. Shelter referrals, showers, laundry facilities, and meals help meet families’ basic needs. Computers help in the search for employment and housing. Case managers connect guests to a network of community resources and onsite providers that assist with regaining housing stability.

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Organization: Catholic Community Services of King County

Program: New Bethlehem Shelters

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $50,000

Program Overview:  The Eastside Emergency Shelter for Families (EESF) serves single- and two-parent households with one or more children age 17 and under. EESF responds to homeless families’ immediate need for food and safe shelter. It provides a foundation of emergency support to lessen the trauma of homelessness. Families are linked to mainstream services with the intention of making homelessness brief and one-time. EESF offers 30 regular spaces and 20 overflow spaces for families each night.

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Organization: Congregations for the Homeless

Program: Men's Eastside Winter Shelter

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $25,000

Program Overview:  Provides a safe, restful, rejuvenating shelter for up to 100 men experiencing homelessness during the coldest and harshest six months of the year. All men 18 years or older are welcomed between 7:30 pm till 7:30 am nightly as long as they are behaviorally appropriate. Shelter services include beds, bathrooms, showers, laundry, nutritious dinner and breakfast donated from the community, bus tickets, on-site staff, case management and volunteer support.

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Organization: Congregations for the Homeless

Program: Outreach

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $20,000

Program Overview:  Outreach responds to the requests from city staff, police, and the wider community in Bellevue, Issaquah, and Kirkland to engage with and address the needs of men, women, and families experiencing homelessness. Additionally, the Outreach Navigator proactively goes to places in each of these cities to find those experiencing homelessness, build relationships with them, and help connect them to needed resources. Educating the wider community about homeless is a goal as well.

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Organization: Congregations for the Homeless

Program: Up and On Housing

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $4,500

Program Overview:  This program master leases or owns a house for men working with a CFH case manager to graduate into from the shelter system. This housing model accommodates men who only need light-touch support from case management and who can pay 500+ dollars a month in rent on average.

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Organization: Congregations for the Homeless

Program: Year Round Rotating Shelter

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $8,151

Program Overview:  Shelter operates from 7pm - 7am for 35 men experiencing homelessness. Provides a vibrant healthy community where men can rest, recover, and rejuvenate. The Navigation Team equips and empowers men to set goals, access housing resources, and work towards self-sufficiency and on-going stability. Navigators coordinate access to employment, medical, dental, substance use, and mental health support as well as three meals a day, washers, dryers, showers, and haircuts.

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Organization: Eastside Baby Corner

Program: Meeting Basic Needs for Children

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $13,388

Program Overview:  Provides critical basic needs which infants and children (0-12), near/in poverty or crisis, need for healthy development and safety. EBC is the only children’s basic needs resource broker in our service area. We fill a gap by collecting essential goods through community donations and by purchasing critical safety-regulated items, like car seats, and consumable goods, like diapers. We distribute these basics, valued at $5.5M annually, to families through our partner network.

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Organization: Friends of Youth

Program: Outreach & Drop-In Services for Homeless Youth & Young Adults

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $25,000

Program Overview:  Connects young people experiencing homelessness (ages 16-24) with the information, services and resources they need to build safe, stable futures. Through street outreach, mobile drop-in sites and our drop-in center (co-located with shelter and other services), we meet young people where they are and help them improve their safety, wellbeing, self-sufficiency and permanent connections with family, school and other positive social networks.

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Organization: Friends of Youth

Program: TLP Housing for Homeless Young Adults & Young Families

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $28,458

Program Overview:  “New Ground” transitional living programs (TLPs) provide safe, transitional housing and supportive services to young adults and young families experiencing homelessness. Our TLPs provide 57 units that serve young people from across King County and are located in Bothell, Kirkland and Redmond. Case management and other services help our residents improve their safety, wellbeing and self-sufficiency so that they can achieve permanent housing and fulfill their potential.

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Organization: Friends of Youth

Program: Youth & Young Adult Shelter

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $25,000

Program Overview:  Friends of Youth operates two year-round shelters for youth and young adults experiencing homelessness. Youth Haven provides a safe, temporary shelter for youth under age 18 with case management, education support and family engagement services. The Landing serves young adults ages 18-24 and provides overnight shelter, including counseling, housing navigation and referrals to in-house and community services including education, employment, case management and housing.

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Organization: Imagine Housing

Program: Supportive Services

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $30,000

Program Overview:  Provides over 3,000 hours yearly of programming including resource referrals, trainings, basic needs supplies, case management, and community events across properties in Bellevue, Issaquah, Kirkland, Redmond and Sammamish. This program helps residents with low incomes overcome barriers to stability, helps residents access resources to meet basic needs, and improves the overall quality of our residents' lives.

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Organization: Hopelink

Program: Emergency Food

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $46,410

Program Overview:  When a family doesn't have enough food, a basic human need, stability in other areas is impossible. Hopelink’s food program provides food to supplement a household’s income. Hopelink food banks offer options from each food group (fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins and dairy), as well as baby items and personal care products. We offer home delivery for home bound individuals in need of supplemental food assistance and our emergency bags provide an immediate solution to a hunger crisis.

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Organization: Hopelink

Program: Financial Assistance Resiliency

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $30,000

Program Overview:  Helps individuals living in poverty who are experiencing an unexpected financial shock (need for car repair, medical issue, loss of hours at work, etc.) that threatens their overall stability (housing, employment, income). Through flexible financial aid, in conjunction with short-term system navigation help, our program reduces barriers to income supports and improves participants’ financial stability.

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Organization: Hopelink

Program: Housing

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $20,400

Program Overview: Hopelink has 19 units of Emergency Shelter, 51 units of transitional Housing, and 35 units of Permanent Housing. Case managers, paired with the above-described units, use a strengths-based, client-centered case management model. Case managers work with the family to identify realistic goals to help the family overcome barriers and identify steps and strategies to achieve permanent housing. The end goal is to have the family achieve the highest level of self-sufficiency by making lasting change.  

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Organization: Lake Washington Schools Foundation

Program: Pantry Packs

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $51,000

Program Overview:  Pantry Packs has provided weekly food packs for children in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD) since 2010. This program currently serves over 850 students each week with a pack of child-friendly food, and the number continues to grow steadily. In the 2016-17 school year, Pantry Packs provided 22,372 weekend packs of food.

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Organization: LifeWire

Program: Emergency Shelter

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $23,908

Program Overview:  LifeWire's Emergency Shelter (aka My Sister's Home or MSH) is a confidential shelter for survivors of domestic violence who are fleeing a violent relationship. Emergency shelter is provided in 10 apartment units located in East King County. Survivors (and their children) in shelter are provided basic needs such as food, clothing, and transportation; are offered the full array of LIfeWire's supportive services; and are provided support in finding a better housing option. 

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Organization: LifeWire

Program: Housing Stability

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $6,000

Program Overview:  LifeWire’s Housing Stability Program is a homelessness prevention and diversion program pairing flexible financial assistance with advocacy services to help domestic violence survivors avoid homelessness or move out of homelessness quickly. This program eliminates the fear of homelessness and related economic factors as a reason to stay in, or return to, an abusive relationship. It stabilizes survivors and their children, so they can rebuild their lives and heal from trauma.

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Organization: MAPS - Muslim Community Resource Center (MCRC)

Program: Housing

BIPOC Organization: Yes

Amount Funded (2020): $5,000

Program Overview:  The purposes of our housing program are to: prevent homelessness via: education and information (e.g. translating lease for people who don't speak English) emergency financial assistance advocacy - provide a continuum of services to homeless people emergency utility assistance tents shelter for single women, 50 and older (currently, a Bellevue apartment for two women, and in May, a Renton apartment for four women).

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Organization: Sound Generations

Program: Meals on Wheels

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $10,000

Program Overview:  Sound Generations’ Meals on Wheels (MOW) program is trusted by thousands of King County’s most vulnerable aging and disabled adults each year for their home delivered food needs. We deliver nutritious, satisfying meals directly to the homes of King County residents of all ages, who are unable to leave their homes unassisted, unable to prepare meals, and lack a social support system. For more than 40 years, MOW has been one of the most effective community-based tools for fighting senior hunger.

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Organization: The Salvation Army-Eastside

Program: Eastside Corps Social Services

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $5,000

Program Overview:  The Social Services program meets the needs of low-income and homeless residents on King County’s Eastside. It provides emergency financial assistance for rent, mortgages, and utilities to promote housing stability; offers a food pantry and hot meals program to decrease food insecurity; distributes hygiene kits, baby products, and clothing; connects clients to other service providers through information and referral; and helps clients on a path toward self-sufficiency through case management.

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Organization: The Sophia Way

Program: Day Center

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $25,000

Program Overview:  The Sophia Way Day Center (DC) offers a safe and stable environment for women to recoup, recover, and heal. Since 2015 we have we have increased our hours of operations by 85% to meet the increasing needs and number of women attending the DC. We are open 7 days a week and provide hot meals, bathroom and laundry facilities, computers, phones and internet access. Clients may receive case management as well as referrals to financial coaching, employment apps and mental and physical health services.

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Organization: The Sophia Way

Program: Outreach

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $20,000

Program Overview:  The Outreach program reaches people who are experiencing homelessness to build trust and a relationship on site, in their location, in order to give them referrals to services and resources for shelter, housing, and other supports they need. The focus is providing life-saving services for people who may be resistant to accepting services, such as substance abuse addiction treatment or mental health counseling with the ultimate goal of getting them into safe, affordable housing.

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Organization: The Sophia Way

Program: Eastside Women's Winter Shelter

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $25,000

Program Overview:  Eastside Emergency Winter Shelter (EWS) opens every night providing a lifeline for single adult women, October-May, who would otherwise be sleeping outdoors or in unsafe living situations. The shelter is staffed every night with two professional staff and provides two meals daily to participants and access to limited hygiene facilities. Guests are also connected with the Sophia Way Day Center and housing navigation services and given bus tickets.

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Organization: The Sophia Way

Program: Sophia's Place Shelter

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $12,240

Program Overview:  Sophia's Place provides the following: supportive services, overnight 6 month shelter, case management services to help clients achieve personal goals that lead to independent living; housing in subsidized apartments and community transitional housing; emergency winter shelter for women and families; day center serving 40+ women meals, showers, laundry facilities, computer/internet/phone access, and referrals to mental health providers, and access to dental and health services and housing.

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Organization: YWCA of Seattle-King-Snohomish

Program: Eastside Resident Services

BIPOC Organization: No

Amount Funded (2020): $25,000

Program Overview:  Family Village Redmond (FVR) has 20 units of Permanent Supportive Housing - 10 for chronically homeless families and 10 for homeless families. Family Village Issaquah (FVI) has five units of permanent housing set aside for families and individuals transitioning out of homelessness who also need an extra level of support. Services are strengths-based, and personalized, designed to equip families with skills and resources needed to achieve long-lasting housing stability.