United
Way of Pierce County funds more than 100 programs at agencies
throughout Pierce County through the Community Solutions Fund. Those programs are listed below and reflect the 2007-2010 funding cycle.
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American Red Cross - Mt. Rainier Chapter
Disaster Emergency Feeding: When a natural disaster occurs resources are not always available (stores closed, roads closed, financial). In a single family fire we provide funds, enabling them to purchase food at their convenience. If the disaster exceeds 5 families, we then respond by opening shelters and providing regular meals to victims. The meals are nutritious and reflect the culture. The Red Cross will also send out Emergency Response Vehicles (ERV) stocked with hot meals.
Disaster Emergency Shelter : After a disaster strikes, many find themselves on the brink of homelessness. To combat this, the Red Cross provides temporary shelter and allows them the opprotunity to work with a case worker who collaborates with other resouces. We provide sheltering in large disasters and support local sheltering efforts with resources, training, and collaboration.
Disaster Services: Provide emergency short term shelter, clothing, and food to victims of disasters. Train volunteers, community members and faith based organizations to mitigate and plan for disasters that may occur in Pierce County. Work with partner agencies to plan and provide services to general population of Pierce County in the event of any size disaster. We educate the public about possible disasters in their community. Provide emergency communication to active military, linking them to their family.
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Bates Technical College
Early Childhood Learning Center: The center provides full-day care to children, whose parents are students or staff of Bates, or community families enrolled in Early Childhood Education Assistance Program (ECEAP). The center is in self-study for accreditation from the National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC). As a laboratory setting for the ECE Career training students, it models developmentally appropriate practices that reflect the individual learning goals of the children in care.
Parenting Basics : Provide 70 parenting skills training claaaes each year for people who have been referred or court required to take a parenting class, and/or who have been identified as at significant risk for abuse, neglect or failure to protect their children.The program is divided into two classes: parents and their children birth through three years, and an adults-only section for parents whose children are older than three, or who can not be with their children.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of King & Pierce Counties
Adult/Child Relationship ( Pierce County) : P rovide one-to-one mentoring that helps children acquire developmental assets which assist them to stay in school, avoid dangerous behaviors, and build positive futures. We match diverse disadvantaged children with trustworthy caring adults in carefully supervised one-to-one mentorships. Community mentors and “Littles” engage in a wide variety of activities during non-school hours; school mentors meet during school hours and spend part of their hour focused on academics.
Birth to Three Development Center
Early Intervention Services: Early Intervention Services are a collection of services designed to support infants and toddlers with developmental delays and their families. These specialized therapeutic and/or educational services are designed to support and maximize a child's development and enhance parental suport of their child. Early intervention services include occupational, physical and speech therapy, specialized instruction, parent education and support.
Boy Scouts of America
Learning for Life Program: This program will provides intense small group, weekly science instruction. The foundation of a relationship between a child and a caring adult is initiated during these visits, at a ratio of 6 children to 1 adult. The relationship is extended through a week of camp with the same caring adult. During the week of camp emphasis is placed on real life application of science concepts and students become a part of a community; living responsibly, honestly, and making good personal choices.
Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound
Delinquency Prevention: The Delinquency Prevention program enables youth, ages 6-18, to participate in life enhancing programs during non-school hours to gain life skills necessary to avoid and reduce violence in their lives.
Teen Programs: The purpose of our Teen Programs is to provide quality programs and services to teenagers to promote hope and opportunity to succeed in life and to help youth develop the self- confidence they need to achieve their full potential.
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Camp Fire USA Orca Council
Teen Outreach Program: The Teen Outreach Program connects homeless, street-involved, and at-risk youth to academic, social, health, and community resources. It addresses basic needs such as housing, food, clothing, and hygiene items, as well as secondary needs such as education, employment, healthcare, and transportation. The program strives to remove barriers--either actual or perceived--that prevent youth from becoming self-sufficient, productive adults. The impact of the program is intended to be lifelong.
CARES of WA (Formerly IAM Cares)
Supported Employment: This program increases self sufficiency, independence and community integration and strengthens each person's support network. Participants are in one of three statuses. Person-to-Person (PtP) helps people prepare for employment by developing skills and setting and achieving individualized goals. Independent Employment (IE) focuses on job search skills first, then job placement, then onsite job coaching and lastly long-term retention. Community Access (CA) increases community participation.
Catholic Community Services SW
Counseling & Consultation : Teaches skills to individuals' and families that minimize the risk of family disintegration or re-entering an acute situation, e.g., suicidal/homicidal concerns, child abuse, violence, etc.
Family Support & Education: Purpose: Prevent child abuse and neglect, and help families change current patterns of abuse and neglect. This is done by providing 12 parenting classes that include discipline, child development, communication, problem solving, family truama, school readiness, stress management and staying calm; providing children's classes on problem solving, empathy, and managing emotions; and, providing a weekly family style meal.
Foster Care: The purpose of the CCS foster care program is to provide safe, nurturing families for those children who, temporarily or permanently, cannot remain with their biological families. This includes providing services to the biological family to help them regain custody, as well as serving the child in the foster home to make sure all of his or her needs are met. Each child is assigned a case manager, and a permanent plan is developed, representing the most caring, permanent placement possible.
Hospitality Kitchen: To provide hot meals and access to social services to homeless and low- income people. To provide day shelter for homeless people. To work with the larger community to significantly reduce homelesness in Tacoma-Pierce County.
Phoenix Housing Network: The purpose of the Phoenix Housing Network is to provide intervention and safe shelter to homeless families while building skills to prevent future homelessness and increase family stability and self-sufficiency. We provide short-term shelter and transitional housing (up to 2 yrs) to homeless families, in addition to intensive case management, life skill training, mental health counseling, and referral to community resources. We also provide rental assistance to prevent homelessness.
Pregnancy Support: To assist women and their families who are experiencing a crisis concerning an unplanned pregnancy. Counseling is also provided to help woment make informed decisions regarding parenting issues and accessing appropriate resources/services before, during and after a pregnancy.
Tahoma Indian Center: The Tahoma Indian Center was established to help restore and sustain the dignity of urban Native American Indians. We believe in living out a ministry of presence by offering a safe place where hopes can be revived, hearts healed, and lives can begin anew. We are a drop-in resource center designed to nurture and build up Native Peoples through service and advocacy.
Volunteer Chore Services: Volunteer Chore Services is an organization of dedicated volunteers who assist low-income elderly and disabled adults with home maintenance, domestic assistance and transportation to essential services. Our clients are low-income elderly and disabled adults over the age of 18 years.
CenterForce
Community Employment: To assist individuals with Development Disabilities (DD) in accessing their community in a way that is meaningful to them and supports the Person Centered Plan (PCP) develped by the individual and his/her circle of support on their "Pathway to Employment".
Centro Latino
Adult Employment & Training: To assist clients and students in acquiring the skills necessary to gain employment and/or increase their language skill levels. The Employment portion provides job(s) related services, while ESL provides language instruction. Employment case management centers around providing assistance with resumes and cover letters, while ESL is centered in assisting students gain language skills that will aid them in gaining employment.
Family Outreach: The Family Outreach program addresses the problems of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and other issues impacting Latino families that reside in Pierce County through the provision of community education, crisis intervention and referral and support services. The program has evolved, over time, from being a primarily crisis intervention focused program to a program that empowers clients with knowledge so that they can effectively participate in life in the communities in which they reside.
Youth at Risk Program: The Youth at Risk Program is a year round prevention program that addresses the academic and social issues of predominately Latino Youth enrolled in Middle and High School within Pierce County who are at risk of dropping out or experiencing academic failure.
Child & Family Guidance Center
Family Assessment Program : To provide comprehensive services including: Family Assessment Services, Maternity Support Services and Family Support Services to low-income families throughout Pierce County with coordination from the Family Support Centers. This program also provides professional counseling at the family support centers or at the client's home in order to prevent the need for more extensive mental health services.
Family Mental Health Support Services : Provides short-term individualized family mental health support services to parents of children birth to age three with developmental delays, through individual and group environments at the Tacoma Learning Center (TLC).
LIFT (Low Income Family Therapy): Provides services to low-income families, individuals, couples, children, adolescents, and seniors who are in need of individual and family counseling to improve their lives and increase their self-sufficiency.
Tacoma Learning Center - B.E.A.R.S.: The BEARS program is designed to serve children birth to age three who have developmental delays or diagnoses which impact their development. All programming is developmentally appropriate for the individual child. Services consider the varying abilities of the children involved and are adapted to meet their specific goals and learning needs. Program opportunities are provided for in home education and therapy, developmental assessments, social group opportunities and parent education.
Children's Home Society of WA (CHSW)
Emergency Services: Emergency Services such as, rent, utilities, food, clothing, gas, emergency shelter, and other basic needs are provided through United Way of Pierce County Emergency Services to Key Peninsula and Gig Harbor residents. We provide services to persons (Monday - Friday: 8AM - 5PM). We also provide Family Support Services in the evening. We are planful in distributing emergency funds and assure fiscal responsibility/accountability. We also give clients opportunities to "giveback" by volunteering
Key Peninsula Family Resource Support: Provides family support/ prevention services builds on strengths/resources of at-risk children/families living in Key Peninsula area. Services provided includes parenting support/education, youth mentoring (Little Buddies and Summer Youth), emergency assistance for basic needs, community holiday giving free clothing bank and information/referral to resources. KPFRC primary social service provider in area and hassuccess meeting needs of high-risk community.
Foster to Adopt: The Foster to Adopt program focuses on providing permanency for state foster children. Potential families are identified and then matched with a waiting child. The foster to adopt program supports the family, child and community thorough education, resources and intensive case management. The program uses a team model approach and collaborates with other professionals to ensure the success of the family. For unmatched children ongoing specialized recruitment is provided.
Communities in Schools of Orting
After School Enrichment: The After School Enrichment Program provides youth in Orting and areas of unincorporated Pierce County with a safe place to learn and grow after school hours. The Program offers quarterly structured classes for youth ages 3-18 in academic subjects, including math and science, the arts, including theatre and music, and sports and fitness including organized leagues and skills camps. Multi-generational courses such as spanish and cooking are also offered for the entire family.
Community Health Care
Outreach & Referral Services: Outreach & Referral Services of Community Health Care provide vital support to patients with referrals to specialty care and with issues beyond their medical needs. These services include assistance with eligibility for Medicaid and other entitlements. They are also assisted with finding resources for child-care, housing, utilities relief, and other needs. All of these services contribute to the overall health and well-being of low income patients.
Primary Medical Care: The purpose of this program is the provision of high quality medical care to uninsured Pierce County residents. With over 100,000 persons in Pierce County without insurance coverage and that number growing at a steady and alarming rate, the resources for access to health care for these individuals is critical.
Uninsured Dental Care: The purpose of this program is to provide high quality oral health care to person's who are uninsured (including homeless individuals) on a sliding fee schedule or a single nominal fee basis.
Community Montissori
Community Montessori: Provide a safe, nurturing, developmentally appropriate, educationally oriented program based on a Montessori curriculum within a prepared environment which promotes communication, physical, intellectual, emotional and social development. The curriculum is part of the Washington State continuum linking early care developmental benchmarks to later success in school. Teachers are life-long learners, have at least an A.A. working toward a B.A., have early education experience, and work full-time.
Comprehensive Mental Health Center
Partnership Pebbles in the Pond: Pebbles in the Pond educates consumers of mental health services, the families of the mentally ill, providers of human services and the community at large about severe and persistent mental illness. Conveys current best information about the hope for recovery and the realistic potential that individuals with devastating symptoms can get on with their lives and attain stability and wellness. Through the use of pre-session/post-session knowedge inventories, we measure what's learned.
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Diabetes
Association of Pierce County
- Diabetes Prevention & Education: Our free screening is to identify people who have undiagnosed diabetes. Low income, elderly, minority, and women have a greater risk of developing diabetes. Our free self-care skills workshops helps the individual reduce the chance of developing devastating complications.
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Eatonville Area Council
Eatonville Family Agency: Eatonville Family Agency is a resource center in rural SE Pierce County helping low-income families, individuals, homeless & senior citizens with emergency food, clothing, utility & rent assistance, Basic Food Program (food stamps) application & advocacy; senior citizens activities & classes, adult day care. We also promote awareness of social services and community resources available to reduce the impact of poverty in our area through information, referrals and collaborative partnerships.
Exodus Housing
Safe Choices (EPC Domestic Violence Recovery): To provide transitional housing, case management and domestic violence recovery services and mentorship support for homeless families who are also victims of domestic violence.
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Faith Homes (Episcopal Services for Youth) see Jump Start
Families Unlimited Network - UPPC
Family Services: The overall purpose of the Family Services Program is healthy functioning families with high attachment to the community. The Family Services Program strives to meet the basic needs of low income high-risk families, while providing long-term intensive case management that supports families moving from crisis to stability.
SPOT Program: The SPOT program is a highly relational youth mentoring program that focuses on improved academic performance and improved relationships with adults and peers for youth in 5th through 7th grades within a safe, structured environment during non-school hours.
University Place Food Bank: The UP Food Bank has been operating for over 20 years under UPPC church management. In 2003 it moved under FUN management & has received greater community support due to the higher visibility & focused involvement of the community. It is a volunteer driven program with one paid staff acting as the Food Bank Coordinator who manages the volunteer base needed for food pick-ups & operates 2 shifts a week. The food bank serves all of Pierce County. Individuals served range between 1150-1350 monthly.
First Place for Children
Community Child Care: Community Child Care is designed to provide high quality childcare services open to the community with fees based on a sliding scale or on state subsidies childcare. The target population is low income families with children between the ages of 4 weeks and 7 years of age.
Teen Parent: Teen Parent Program provides infant and toddler child care and parent skill building for teen parents enrolled in high school and working toward graduation and employment.
Therapeutic Child Development: Therapeutic Child Development is an intensive family intervention service focused on physicaly and sexually abused and neglected children ages 4 weeks to 5 years. Children receive developmental and health screenings and limited transportation to and from the program. Their families receive support, resources, referrals and the opportunity to be involved in parenting classes and support groups.
FISH Food Banks of Pierce County
Food Bank Program: The purpose of our program is to improve the health and well being of low-income individuals and families by providing food and nutrition assistance to individuals in need. We provide enough nutritious food for individuals to make 3 meals a day for 3 consecutive days. No one needing assistance is turned away. In 2007 we will provide approximately 220,000 individuals with 1,998,000 meals.
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Girl Scouts-Pacific Peaks Council
Girl Scout Outreach: The purpose of the Girl Scout Outreach program, a long-term prevention program, is to help girls create positive relationships, build their protective factors and learn life skills that will help them thrive. The targeted population is girls ages 5 to 17 from racially and ethnically diverse, low-income families in the Eastside, Central, South areas of Tacoma and Lakewood.
Youth Development: The Girl Scout mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. Girls discover their world, develop a stronger sense of self, gain practical, healthy life skills, and strengthen values. Girls connect with others in a global community, forming caring relationships, promoting cooperation and embracing diversity. Girls take action in the world and learn to make a difference, to identify and solve problems, and to advocate for themselves and others.
Good Samaritan Community Services
Asian Counseling Services: Asian Counseling Services (ACS) provides non-traditional counseling services to address the very specialized mental health needs of Asian Pacific Islander adults and families who cannot avail themselves of mainstream services due to language, cultural, age, financial, and safety needs.
Child & Family Services: Good Samaritan Behavioral Healthcare’s Child and Family Service Program provides a comprehensive array of mental health services ranging from prevention and early intervention services to intensive family therapy and support services for our most at-risk populations. These services include intake and assessment, crisis stabilization, individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, parent education and support services, school based services, psychiatric evaluation, and medication management.
Community Health Outreach: Community Health Outreach will provide a comprehensive array of health maintenance, rehabilitative and social support services to frail elderly and functionally impaired adults with an emphasis on helping clients and their caregivers develop the knowledge, skills and relief necessary to manage care requirements in the home. These combined services are designed to reduce at-risk individuals need for institutional placement.
Domestic Violence Victims Services: The Domestic Violence Program offers group and individual counseling services to help victims understand the dynamics of domestic violence and regain confidence to build healthy, empowered lives for themselves and vulnerable loved ones. We use psycho- educational and support therapies. In addition to the counseling, we also actively help them link with community resources.
HEROS: HEROS (Helping Elders through Referral & Outreach Services) is a unique model of case finding that trains community volunteers to identify isolated, at risk older adults in the community that display need of mental health, health and/or social services. The older adult is then assisted with linkage to service needs, and followed until those services are in place or the situation is stabilized.
Neighborhood Emergency Respite Shelter: The Neighborhood Emergency Respite Program (NERS) facilitates temporary overnight placements for frail adults while making sure their care needs are appropriately met in a licensed Adult Family Home, Assisted living or a Dementia specific setting. NERS also provides technical assistance and continuing education to the overnight care providers and family caregivers.
Older Adult Services Volunteer Counseling Program: The Older Adult Volunteer Counseling Program recruits, trains, and supports volunteers to work on a one to one outreach basis with older adults who are experiencing emotional, physical and mental health concerns.
Puyallup Family Support Center: The Puyallup Family Support Center provides in-home parent education with an emphasis on teaching parenting skills, child development, home safety with the goal of preventing child abuse and neglect. The Center also provides walk-in services as well as emergency diapers, formula, clothing, and gas vouchers. The Center assists families with food stamp and DSHS applications. Each year the Center provide holiday toys and food and back packs with school supplies.
Good Samaritan Hospital - Children's Therapy Unit
Assistive Technology: The Assistive Technology Program (ATP) provides a variety of services in the area of adaptive and assistive technology for clinic and community clients. The intent is not only to use technology to improve patient functioning in the clinic, home or school, but also to increase the patient's primary therapist's skills in the use of adaptive and assistive technology. Individual patient evaluation and equipment modification is provided in any area of need.
Serial Casting: The goal of the Children's Therapy Serial Casting Program is to provide orthotic intervention to maintain range of motion, improve joint alignment and encourage the development of functional movement. Through the use of casting and orthoses we attempt to prevent contractures and the limitations they represent, so that children can achieve maximum independence.
Social Skills Group for Children with Autism: The purpose of the Social Skills Group is to provide children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental delays a place to develop social interaction and communication skills, that are normally absent in this population.
Greater Lakes Mental Health
Child & Family Services: To provide, develop, and/or link creative, mental health and case- management services for low income,under-served and under insured children and their families, while ensuring that these services are increasingly more accessible to those in need. These services focus on improving family functioning and healthy development of children.
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Helping Hand House
Bright Futures/HARP Transitional Housing Programs: Bright Futures/HARP Transitional Housing provides 15 units of transitional housing to homeless families for up to 2 years. Housing is linked to a wide range of support services targeted to building the skills required for families to be self-supporting & independently housed at program exit. Families develop a goal oriented stability plan that provides both motivation & accountability, while working w/case managers to improve their financial resources & prepare for independence.
Emergency Housing Program: The Emergency Housing Program offers homeless families emergency housing and supportive services for up to 90 days. All basic needs are provided for on move-in, including perishable & non-perishable foods, hygiene & cleaning supplies, linens, and kitchen needs. Homes are fully furnished. Supportive services provide families with the tools and skills needed to stabilize their financial & housing situations and to obtain and support permanent housing at program exit.
Homeless Prevention: Homeless Prevention services provide rent and utility assistance to households w/utility shut off or eviction notices. Assistance is currently available once per calendar year per household. Eligible households must attend a budgeting class prior to payment to utility company or property owner.
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Indochinese Cultural and Service Center
SE Asian Diversion/Probation Enhancement Program: The SE Asian Diversion/Probation Youth Program assists youth to fulfill their court-ordered diversion contracts or probation requirements. Clients are Cambodian, Vietnamese and or Laotion youth ages 10-19, referred by Pierce County Juvenile Court. The youth are first time offenders with the law, or youth who are on probation for lower level offences to fulfilling their diversion/probation requirements.
SE Asian Emergency Services Worker Program: To provide triage assessments for walk-in or referred clients who have emergent needs; and then refer them to appropriate mainstream community resources. This program provides translation, interpretation and referral services to SE Asian clients who are facing emergent situations to stabalize families that reside in Tacoma/Pierce County. In essence, ICSC conducts triage and intake assessments with experienced bi-lingual staff for emergency needs and to address service gaps.
Intercommunity Mercy Housing
Service-Enriched Housing: Intercommunity Mercy Housing (IMH) provides quality, affordable, service-enriched housing to individuals and families who are economically poor. Our Service- Enriched Housing program is committed to helping our residents discover and utilize the tools they need to stabilize themselves and their families. We accomplish this by providing on-site supportive services and by linking residents to existing resources in the community.
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Jump Start (formerly Faith Homes (Episcopal Services for Youth)
Jump Start: Jump Start provides 21 transitional housing beds for up to 2 years for homeless teen girls and young women 16 years of age to 25 years of age. (18 of the beds serve those that are pregnant or parenting and 3 serve single women without children). The goal of the program is to move the clients to independence and self sufficiency.
Jump Start Emergency Shelter: To provide emergency shelter up to 90 days for females ages 14 to 25 with or without children who are homeless or at-risk for homelessness. To provide intensive case management designed to facilitate movement to long-term safe housing.
Union Faith Homes: This program provides safe, secure housing and case management and facilitates treatment for emotionally and behaviorally troubled adolescent girls who have been abandoned, abused or neglected by their families. The goal of the program is to address the immediate crisis, to address the treatment issues and to facilitate the girl moving to a foster home, independent living (for those turning 18) or in rare cases to a family member.
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Korean Women's Association of WA
Asian Pacific Senior Adult Day Care: APSDC provides specialized senior adult day care services to limited English proficient Asian Pacific seniors diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, and frail elderly who are of zero to low-income status, who otherwise would not access such services due to language and cultural barriers. KWA provides transportation to and from the Day Care, and clients participate in therapeutic 'basic needs' activities.
Asian Pacific Senior Meal Site: APSMS provides ethnic-based nutritious lunches weekly to Filipino, Korean, and Samoan seniors of Pierce County. We don’t just serve a meal, we make it a holistic approach of needed elderly assistance, health promotion, and just plain fun, in their own language and cultural activities.
We Are Family (WAF) Home: The WAF Home is a 7-bedroom, 19-bed, confidential, emergency shelter which provides basic needs and case management to API victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The WAF Home empowers victims, provides a safe place to eat and sleep, and eventually self-sufficiency. Our goal is to identify and develop needed services for victims/survivors, and provide resources emphasizing multicultural/multilingual strategies and approaches.
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Lakewood Area Shelter Association
Outreach: Our goal is the prevention of homelessness. This is accomplished by providing emergency help with utilities, bus and gas vouchers, rental assistance, and/or prescriptions to singles or families. People can receive help for EACH of our listed services once every 12 months. Referrals for other needs are also made. A volunteer conducts an intake on everyone seeking assistance to check for eligibility and determine if we are able to help. Pledges are made very quickly.
Transitional Housing: LASA works with families to acquire the skills, knowledge and earning power to obtain and keep permanent housing. This is accomplished by providing safe housing, case management and guidance. Our goal is to see families permanently housed and able to provide for themselves, thus preventing recurrent homelessness.
Lakewood Senior Activity Center
Lakewood Senior Activity Center: The purpose of the Lakewood Senior Activity Center is to enable seniors to be healthy, live independently and improve the quality of their lives through their participation in a year round comprehensive senior services program. The program includes education, recreation and fitness classes, trips and tours, opportunities to socialize and volunteer, health screenings, information and referral services and community outreach.
L'Arche Tahoma Hope Community
L'Arche Farm & Gardens: Our program's purpose is to provide meaningful work for people with disabilities (core members). We strive to provide an atmosphere of dignity and respect by using horticulture and art to enhance each individual's unique gifts. Our program sits on 6 acres where in addition to providing fresh produce for our CSA program, we supply lovely flowers and perennials seasonally to the local farmer's markets. Our work force consists of 12 program participants with disabilities and support staff.
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children
Dental: The purpose of our program is to provide accessible, compassionate and effective dental care to children of ALL ages from low-income families from throughout Pierce County.
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Domestic Violence Family Services: Domestic Violence Family Services addresses the effects of domestic violence on children by sharing psycho-educational therapy directly with children and their parents. Groups for children address self image, safety, communication, feelings, impact of DV, and healing. Therapy builds child's sense of personal value and teaches non-violent relationships and problem solving. This service is free to children and their families.
Volunteer Service Corps: The Volunteer Corps Program recruits volunteers to provide essential support services to seniors and disabled adults. Volunteers provide companionship, transportation, respite, household chore services, and outreach. Services can be one time or ongoing and are free of charge to the recipient. Volunteers come from the Senior Companion Program and Interfaith Care Team Ministry programs at LCSNW.
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Martin Luther King Housing Development Association
Client Support Services: The Client Support Services Program (CSS) offer case management services to the homeless and mandated social security recipients who are either mentally ill, substance abusers or both. Staff assists clients in maintaining a budget to ensure sufficient monthly funds to live independently. The goal of the program is to assist this population to learn financial and life skills while transitioning them back into mainstream society.
Emergency Housing Services: The Emergency Housing Services Program (EHS) provides emergency financial rent assistance to families at risk of eviction or in need of securing permanent housing once a year. In addition, the program provides motel vouchers and first month rent for families displaced due to no fault of their own.
Men's & Women's Shelter (Last Chance): MLKHDA's Men's and Women's Shelters provide emergency overnight housing to men and women over the age of 18 who are experiencing homelessness. The Shelters offer safe housing to these individuals on a first come first serve basis.
Mary Bridge Children's Health Center
Grief and Loss Services/BRIDGES: BRIDGES provides grieving children ages 4-18 and their families with support, education, and resources to sustain them through the process of healing from the loss of a parent or sibling. The mission briefly stated is: No child will grieve alone.
MultiCare Health Systems
Adult Day Health: The purpose of the Adult Day Health Center (ADHC) is to provide health, rehabilitative, social, and nutritional services to functionally, physically, mentally or cognitively impaired adults in order to improve or maintain their health status and level of functioning and maximize their potential for independent living. The ADHC provides two programs, five days per week: a day program for older adults (10am-2pm) and an evening program for younger, developmentally disabled adults (3-7pm).
Tacoma Family Medicine: TFM has developed a comprehensive chronic care model that includes identification and outreach to our diabetic patients. We have established planned visits and work flows that ensure we meet the needs of the diabetic patient, including labs, immunizations, medication prescriptions, self management goal setting and education. TFM is well positioned to expand this program to more effectively serve all TFM patients with chronic conditions such as hypertension and asthma using the same model.
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Neighborhood Clinic
Medical Outreach: To provide free medical care, medications and diagnostic testing to persons not able to access or afford health care and to make referrals to specialists in the community who provide care, on a no-fee basis, for services not available at clinic. We intend to be open every Monday and Thursday of the year with the exception of traditional holidays.
New D.A.Y. (Diaz Art for Youth)
New Day - D.I.A.Z. Art for Youth: New DAY-Diaz Art for Youth is an after school and summer art and community-based mentoring program that helps youth in Pierce County have opportunities for learning fine art skills, participate in constructive out of school activities, and receive mentoring by caring adults. The purpose of this program is to give youth an opportunity to grow and be healthy, educated and safe, preparing them to be productive adults.
New Phoebe House Association
New Phoebe House Association: The New Phoebe House provides up to ninety days of emergency shelter and up to two years of transitional housing to homeless women and children impacted by substance abuse. The program emphasis is on achieving and maintaining stable, affordable, permanent housing and healthy family reunification in a clean and sober environment. Upon intake basic needs are met: food, shelter & clothing. Additionally, program needs of each woman are assessed and a comprehensive service plan is developed.
Northwest Leadership Foundation
ProTeen: ProTeen exists to provide an opportunity for high school students that have been suspended/expelled/truant or showing gang behaviors to work intensively with an adult mentor, the faith community, and service providers, who will assist them in developing and achieving their goals around academics, community service, social skills, and self-esteem.
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Parents & Students in Action (Youth Connection)
Youth & Community Activities: Parents & Students In Action (PSIA), purpose is to improve the quality of life in the youth and families in Southeast Pierce County. PSIA provides week-end, after-school, summer enrichment programs and community service projects, for ages 5 to 18 (K to 12 grade).
Pierce County AIDS Foundation
Mental Health Case Management: Case management is a client-centered service that links people who are living with HIV, and other family members, with appropriate levels of health care and other support services. Mental health case management is a specialized service which addresses the comprehensive medical, physchosocial, financial, and legal issues facing a client who is dually diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and mental health problems to implement, with the client, a care plan that addresses the entire array of services.
OASIS Youth Center: OASIS provides a confidential drop in center and a safe, supportive enviornment for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) youth, aged 14 to 24 to help them develop positive and healthy life skills, establish relationships with adult mentors, and have opportunities to give back via community service and volunteerism. OASIS fosters physical, mental, and emotional health of GLBTQ youth and strives to both enhance their protective factors and reduce their high-risk behaviors.
PLU Wellness Center
Access to Care: This is a nurse-practioner-managed, family practice clinic which provides medical and dental services to those who are either underinusred or have no insurance. Access to Care provides physical examinations, acute and chronic problem treatments, medication prescriptions, diagnostic tests, immunizations, medical counseling and referrals to other health care specialists.
Prison Pet Partnership Program
Vocational Education: The vocational education program provides job training to incarcerated women and job placement assistance upon release from prison. Participants earn certification as Pet Care Technicians through the American Boarding Kennel Association(ABKA) Participants can expand their employability through on-the-job training skills in our boarding and grooming facility. Our program provides job placement assistance upon release from prison.
Puyallup Playcare Center
Puyallup Playcare Center: Childcare is provided for children ages 2 1/2 through 10 years of age and operates from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The program transports children to four local elementary schools in the center’s vans.
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Salvation Army - Puyallup Corps
Emergency Services: The purpose of our program is to provide emergency assistance to bridge the gap for people who are homeless, without jobs, at risk of having their electricity cut off and, those who need life skills training. We provide food, utility assistance, life skills training, medication assistance, referrals and placement into drug and alcohol treatment, and limited emergency housing.
Salvation Army - Tacoma Corps
Comprehensive Emergency Services: The Salvation Army Comprehensive Emergency Services Program was developed to assist in meeting basic human needs. Many clients rely on our services to suppliment their meager incomes. The main objective of the program is to meet the need and supply the client with enough community resource information to help them become self-reliant and avoid a crisis in the future.
Emergency Family Lodge: The purpose of the Salvation Army Emergency Family Lodge is to provide temporary housing and comprehensive crisis intervention to homeless families and single women.
Joyful Noise Child Care: At Joyful Noise Child Care, the whole child is nurtured. Each child is given opportunities for growth and experiences in the physical, cognitive, emotional, social and spiritual domains. Special attention is paid to developing self-esteem and self-concept to enhance the child's learning and well-being. The program supports children's cultural identities, and diverse populations. This program was designed to be developmentally appropriate for children 16 months to 6 years old.
Sexual Assault Center of Pierce County
Therapy Services: When victims of sexual assault desire professional assistance in healing from the trauma of their victimization, they have decided to heal and become hopeful, functioning, contributing members of their households, work places and communities. Though forever changed, they need not suffer and negatively impact their children, partners, families, co-workers, community members and society.
St. Leo's Food Connection
St. Leo Food Connection: The Food Connection collects and distributes surplus and donated food to Pierce County residents. Our goal is to provide our clients with enough food for three meals per day for three days for each member of their household, and we allow them to visit once each week. Our duplicated client count for 2005 was just over 100,000, with seniors and children accounting for 52% of our total clients served. We run a food line 5 days per week at our main site and a weekly mobile food bank in Lakewood.
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Tacoma Area Coalition of Individuals with Disabilities (TACID)
Blind Independent Living : The purpose is to maintain and increase independence and reduce the isolation of seniors and other adults who experience sight loss and other disabilities. A comprehensive range of services is provided in the person's home and community including: self-care skills training, volunteer assistance, information and referral to other TACID services and outside agencies, adaptive aids, and peer support. Where possible, family members are included in the skills training and other activities.
H.E.L.P: HELP provides services to assist people with disabilities in Tacoma, Lakewood, and Pierce County acquire and retain shelter including a supportive housing project for homeless clients and to become more independent and self sufficient through employment services and referrals in the community. HELP also provides disability etiquette training to students and others to decrease discrimination faced by people with disabilities.
Tacoma Community House
Adult Literacy: To increase the literacy, language and basic computer literacy skills levels of undereduacted adults so that they can achieve self-sufficiency and improve the quality of their lives.
Tacoma Day Care & Preschool Association
The Tacoma Daycare & Preschool Association: Tacoma Day is open to provide quality affordable care and education. The Early Learning Center serves children 14 months through pre- kindergarten. The academically supportive School Age Program serves children through elementary school. Tacoma Day provides program that meets the developmental needs of children emphasizing the early and long term development of children. Children are introduced to the skills needed for school readiness and continue to build as they progress through school.
Tacoma Rescue Mission
Challenge Learning Services: Challenge Learning Services (CLS) provides adult basic education, GED preparation, computer literacy classes, and job-readiness training to educationally disadvantaged people as a means of moving them toward self-sufficiency. Most students are enrolled in our residential drug/alcohol addiction recovery program for the homeless. Our facilities and tutoring are also available to anyone in the community who needs adult basic education, tutoring for the GED, or use of our computer lab.
Family Shelter: The purpose of the Emergency Family Shelter is to provide a safe and secure emergency shelter offering food, clothing, case management, and referrals for homeless single women and families with children.
New Life Program: The New Life Program is a ten month, on site residential addiction recovery program offered free of charge to homeless adult men and women who desire to overcome addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. The program includes an emotional healing component, service learning, adult basic education/continuing education, mentoring, individual counseling, life skills training, worship and spiritual development.
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (formerly the Franciscan Foundation)
Client Outreach Program: Client Outreach provides access to healthcare and insurance by locating a medical, dental and mental health home for low-income, uninsured Pierce County children, pregnant women and adults. One Caseworker identifies uninsured children utilizing three Franciscan hospital emergency rooms and two caseworkers support the program’s toll-free line and receives referrals and provides technical assistance to individuals from United Way's 211, ABCD, and local schools and community based organizations.
Tillicum/American Lake Gardens Community Services
Emergency Services: Provide Emergency Food, Clothing and referral services to meet immediate needs, improve nutrition over time, Reduce Barriers to receiving food and assistance, and improve knowledge of community resources in this isolated, very low income community.
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Washington Women's Employment & Education (WWEE)
Housing Bridge to Self-Sufficiency (HBSS): HBSS provides homeless and near homeless women and families in Pierce County 6 months of subsidized transitional rental assistance (approximately 70% of the cost of rent) combined with outreach and up to two years of barrier reducing case management and employment readiness services which are provided as an in kind service by WWEE. Together these strategies empower participants to transition from homelessness and dependence on public subsidy to stable housing and economic self-sufficiency.
REACH Plus: Through the REACH Plus program curriculum, WWEE employs a holistic approach which transforms the lives of our participants by providing the tools and skills necessary for low-income individuals to break the cycle of poverty and become self sufficient. WWEE envisions a robust community that empowers all its members to achiece meaningful careers which are self-sustaining, self-actualized and free from public subsidy.
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YMCA of Tacoma-Pierce County
Black Achievers: Idenitifies middle school and high school youth, many of whom are at-risk youth, who have the incentive to personally grow through goal setting and exposes them to career opportunities, education, community service and adult role models with the ultimate opportunity of receiving post-high school scholarship assistance.
Child Care: Provides quality, structured before and after school licensed child care for students ages 5-12 and accredited day camps during school vacations. The sites are specifically designed to provide a safe place for school-aged children to build healthy friendships and strong character values.
Late Night: Late Nite at the Tacoma Center YMCA provides a safe, productive and fun place for teenagers to spend their weekends with recreational and educational activities, and opportunities to build meaningful relationships.
Special Needs Adapted/Medical Referral Programs: Effectively meets the physical, mental, and social skills of youth, adults, and seniors though fitness and rehabilitative programming. Currently, the YMCA offers twenty program opportunities aimed at special needs individuals. Adaptive/Medical Referral Programs include preventative, rehabilitative, fitness, and social opportunities for individuals with varying levels of need.
Youth Physical Education : YMCA's youth PE offers a variety of sports programs and physical activities to approximately 20,000 youth and their families throughout Pierce County. With childhood obesity climbing at an alarming rate, the program strives to provide both a positive outlet for family interaction, as well as an opportunity for our community to develop healthier lifestyles. Our programs help families to become stronger and healthier physically, mentally and spiritually.
Youth for Christ
Breaking Free Parenting Workshop: The Breaking Free Parenting Workshop is a parent education program for the entire family. The goal of the workshop is to assist parents in developing healthy families. The program is skills oriented and highly relational. The workshop is three-fold. It includes education, mentoring and on-going community-based support. The program provides parents with practical, easily transferable skills and principles that can be used immediately. Youth for Christ has provided the workshops for 15 years.
Foster Care Program: YFC is a licensed foster care agency providing foster care and foster/adopt services to children ages 0-18. YFC provides wrap-around case managment services, supervises visits between the children and their parents, and helps match biological parents with community mentors for additional support and parental instruction. YFC also provides intensive support to our foster families including 24 hour availability.
Youth Guidance : Youth Guidance (YG) provided supportive services for over 400 at-risk youth from throughout Pierce County utilizing caring adult role models, counseling, job searches, educational connections and tutoring, and community activities. YG connects with youth through Remann Hall and our Late Night Program at People's Center located on MLK St. We also provide wrap around services for youth and their families.
Youth Resources
Graham Youth House & Spanaway Youth House: The Graham & Spanaway Youth House are emergency & transitional homes with 24-hour supportive services, for homeless, high-risk, abandoned, and runaway youth ages 18-21. These safe, home-like setting give youth the structure, guidance, and education they need to grow and mature into independent citizens. Each home has 24 hour staffing and opportunities for youth to work on completing their education, stability, personal development, and life skills.
YWCA of Pierce County
Generation YW: Girls detained in Pierce County Juvenile Court (PCJC) need an environment that will assist them in enhancing protective factors that are likely to build resiliency, promote healthy decision making, and ultimately reduce recidivism. The YWCA of Pierce County Generation YW program is designed to address the specific needs of female juvenile offenders. Project Empower & Employ (June and Oct) also teaches girls in Pierce County job readiness skills and financial literacy.
Insights Domestic Violence Prevention: Insights provide a coordinated community response to domestic violence with support groups, community educuation, and professional training in order to build a safe and strong community with zero tolerance for domestic violence.
Legal Services: The Legal Services Program provides specialized civil legal advocacy and civil legal representation to individuals escaping domestic violence and empowers them to establish safe, self-sufficient lives and healthy nurturing homes for their children. The Program augments victim safety by reducing and ultimately preventing intimate violence through advocacy, education and support in the civil and criminal justice systems and attorney representation in the civil justice system.
Women's Support Shelter: The Women's Support Shelter offers safe and secure emergency shelter, up to 90 days, for women and children fleeing domestic violence, offering them the self- sufficiency tools they need to be free from abuse. The program offers clients to access to on-site legal services, counseling, education, and other opportunities desinged to help clients overcome abuse and lead purposeful, powerful lives.
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