Hot Meal offered by Kent Community Supper at Kent Lutheran Church
Serves a free hot dinner once a week to anyone in need; distributes snack bags and winter gear such as hats, gloves and socks during office hours.
Serves a free hot dinner twice a week to anyone in need. Also distributes snack bags, hats, gloves and socks to those in need from the church office during office hours.
Baby & Child Corner offered at West Seattle Food Bank
Provides baby and toddler accessories, diapers, formula and baby food to families in West Seattle who are in need of a little help to provide for their children.
Provides diapers, formula and baby food as available to families in need.
Program can also connect clients to other items such as:
- High chairs
- Car seats (infant seats to booster seats)
- Strollers
- Infant bottles
- Blankets
- Clothing for newborns up to size 12.
Offers Case/Care management emergency food (when the other food pantries are closed or in an emergency), general clothing from a small closet, bus tickets for transportation assistance and laundry services.
Offering community access for people who are rent burdened need resources such as clothing, transportation assistance, and free laundry. Those who are experiencing behavioral health challenges need a welcoming place that can provide health service referrals and advocacy. Folks who are living outside need a refuge where they are warmly welcomed and can access food and hygiene supplies, etc.
Emergency Assistance offered at St Vincent de Paul - Pacific
Offers financial assistance on a case by case basis depending on the request and availability of funds. May help with obtaining beds, clothing, travel aid, back to school clothing, and other needs.
Offers financial assistance on a case by case basis depending on the request and availability of funds. May help with obtaining beds, clothing, travel aid, back to school clothing, and other needs.
Clothing Shop offered at The Bobbe J. Bridge Resource Center
Operates a clothing bank for youth and their families who are involved with the juvenile justice system, as well as any youth in need.
Meaningful, community-centered connections for young people are critical to their success. The Bobbe J. Bridge Resource Center helps ensure youth and families have access to information, programs, and opportunities that support their needs and goals. The Resource Center partners with non-profit organizations and community members to provide coordinated assistance to youth and families in one central location at the Children and Family Justice Center. The Resource Center hours are Monday through Friday between 8:30am and 4:30pm. Anyone can access services during these times.
In an effort to increase virtual access and minimize barriers, the Youth Support Resources site provides information about youth & family resources in King County. Resources may be filtered by type of service, age, and desired travel distance. To access the Youth Support Resources go to https://youthresources.kingcounty.gov/. If you would like to add or update information to this resource database please e-mail [email protected].
The Resource Center hosts the Clothing Shop, an onsite boutique-style clothing shop, where youth can shop for free, well-curated, new or gently used items of clothing to wear to their next job interview, court appearance, award ceremony, graduation, or other special occasion.
Harm Reduction Health Center offered at Clallam County Public Health Services - Forks
Offers a Syringe Exchange Program to intravenous drug users on a 1 to 1 exchange. For each used syringe brought in a sterile syringe will be given.
The Harm Reduction Health Center is a community-focused space dedicated to minimizing the adverse effects associated with substance use. We offer a range of services aimed at promoting health and safety among individuals who use substances.
Harm Reduction & Education offered includes the following:
Naloxone (Narcan)
Wound Care
Safer Use Supplies
Syringe Services
Substance Test Strips
Hygiene Supplies
Clothing Closet
Support Group
Reproductive Health & Safer Sex Supplies
In-house Treatment Assessments
Referrals to Community Partners and More.
Pregnancy Support offered at Pregnancy Aid of Kent
Provides counseling, support and referral for pregnant women; pro-life philosophy; loans toddler beds, bassinets, baby furniture to clients. Provides clothing for children until youngest child is 5 years old. Provides car seats when available.
Trained volunteers provide pregnancy-related information on a friend-to-friend basis via telephone and in person.
Offers emotional support to women concerning pregnancy. Promotes a pro-life philosophy.
Loans toddler beds, bassinets and some baby furniture to clients. Provides car seats to clients when available.
Clothing bank provides maternity clothes and clothing for children until youngest child is 5 years old.
Provides ongoing in-service training by professionals for volunteers on regular basis.
Resource Access Team offered at King County Department of Community and Human Services
Financial assistance to help stay housed, gain or retain employment, support educational goals leading to employment, or meet basic needs. Intended for emergent or one-time situations.
The Resource Access Team is a multifunctional customer service team within the Department of Community and Human Services that will serve as a centralized information and resource referral system, making it easier for residents of King County to access the services they need. The Resource Access Team aims to help residents connect to resources, navigate services, or bridge short-term financial gaps.
The Resource Access Team may provide financial assistance to King County residents to help them gain or retain employment, support educational goals leading to employment, or meet basic needs, including but not limited to food, healthcare, shelter, childcare, transportation and safety. Resource Access Financial Assistance is intended for emergent or one-time situations and not intended for recurrent or regular needs.
The Resource Access Team does not provide rental assistance.
Caregivers Support Program offered by Catholic Community Services' Kinship Services in Seattle
Provides financial assistance for kinship caregivers. Licensed foster parents are ineligible. Adults 18+ must be the primary caregiver for their friend's or relative's children. Must have exhausted all other financial resources.
Provides financial assistance for eligible families providing kinship care. Examples of items that qualify for financial assistance are listed below:
- Food, clothing, transportation, household items
- Legal custody filing fees
- School uniforms, supplies, field trips, band instruments
- Sports and youth activities registrations, fees, uniforms, tutoring
- One-time help with rent or utilities to prevent eviction or shut-off
Provides essential good for infants and young children including: formula and food, diapers, clothing, cribs, and car seats.
Partners with KidVantage, formerly Eastside Baby Corner, to provide childcare essentials such as the following:
- Diapers
- Formula
- Baby Clothes
- Cribs
- Car Seats
- Children's Clothes
Food Bank/Baby Cupboard offered by Multi-Service Center in Federal Way
Operates food pantry and baby cupboard with formula for anyone in need; special no-cook food bags are available for homeless individuals.
Provides supplemental and emergency food to individuals and families; special no-cook options are available for those experiencing homelessness.
Also provides formula, cereal, baby food and diapers for infants as available.
Food offered at East Grays Harbor County Food Bank
Offers a food pantry with non-perishable items, commodities, fresh fruits and vegetables, and some foods for nutritional requirements like diabetes. Occasionally has donated items like hygiene supplies and diapers.
Offers a food pantry with non-perishable items, commodities, fresh fruits and vegetables, and some foods for nutritional requirements like diabetes. Occasionally has donated items like hygiene supplies and diapers.
Career Coaching, Financial Education, Digital Literacy and Job Search Program offered by Dress For Success Seattle
Provides interview-appropriate clothing for low-income women actively looking for work. Support services for job search and job retention also offered. Serves anyone identifying as female.
Provides clients with access to a career center and mentors in support of job searching or career transitions. Offers personalized appointments to outfit under- or un-employed women and nonbinary people with interview-appropriate clothing. Clients who secure a job are invited to join the professional group, a job retention program with monthly meetings, coaches, expert speakers, and professional networking with peers.
Homeless Advocacy offered at Crossroads Housing - North Mason
Assist clients with clothing/interview clothing, emergency food, care/hygiene kits, and some camping supplies when available. Offers vouchers for laundry and propane when funding is available.
Assist clients with clothing/interview clothing, emergency food, care/hygiene kits, and some camping supplies when available. Offers vouchers for laundry and propane when funding is available.
Unmet Needs offered by Veterans of Foreign Wars Service Division at Federal Building
Helps military service members and their families with basic life needs who run into unexpected financial difficulties as a result of deployment or other hardships directly related to military service.
Helps military service members and their families who run into unexpected financial difficulties as a result of deployment or other hardships directly related to military service.
Assists with basic life needs and unanticipated financial needs such as:
- Mortgage and rent
- Car payment
- Home and auto repairs
- Insurance
- Utilities
- Food
- Clothing.
The financial assistance is in the form of up to $1,500 in grants that do not need to be repaid.
All grants are paid directly to the "creditor" (such as the electric company), and not to the individual.
Each case is reviewed individually and acceptance determined by a committee.
Applicants can receive funds only once every 18 months, and only twice total.
Second requests for assistance must be caused by a new situation and deployment.
Homeless Youth Street Outreach offered at StandUp for Kids
Performs outreach services to homeless school children and street youth to help them acquire neccessary living skills and provides clothes, blankets, hot meals, and hygiene items when available. Accepts donated items for youth. NOT A SHELTER.
NOT A SHELTER. Programs are staffed by outreach workers, working in conjunction with local school districts who spend time with at-risk/homeless youth, build relationships with them, identify and address their immediate needs (e.g., crisis intervention, food, clean clothing, hygiene kits, blankets, someone to listen) and provide information about and linkage to longer-term forms of support such as shelter, counseling, drug and alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation, care/case management. Youth in need do not have to be enrolled in school.
Working Wardrobe offered by Suburban King County YWCA's Family Village in Redmond
Offers used office-appropriate job interview clothing for adult job seekers. Referral required.
Provides access to reusable clothing items for adult job seekers. Assists low-income adults with quality, reusable clothing and accessories appropriate for office work, interviews, and other self-sufficiency activities. The inventory changes often and can be limited in quantity, style, and size.
Feminine and masculine clothing items are available. Clothing is not to be exchanged or returned.
Food Pantry offered at Holy Innocents Catholic Church
Operates a food pantry for community members. Offers non-perishable goods, breads, produce, dairy, frozen meat, and specialty diet options as well. Also offers toiletries such as diapers, hygiene items and soaps. Households may visit once a week.
Operates a food pantry for community members in need.
The food pantry is stocked with perishable and non-perishable goods: breads, desserts, frozen meats, canned and packaged foods, and some dairy products and produce. Also offers occasional distribution of hygiene items: soaps, toothpaste and brushes, shampoo, deodorant, feminine products, diapers, cleaning/laundry supplies.
Earn While You Learn offered at Trillium Women's Center
Offers a support program for pregnant women and families of infants and toddlers. Participating in parenting education and mentoring gives clients "credits" for baby food, formula, diapers, clothing and car seats.
Offers ongoing support for pregnant women and their partners, and parenting families of infants and toddlers. Parenting education is provided one on one with a trained parenting advocate. Once enrolled, a client works with their parenting advocate to choose a curriculum best suited to their needs and interests. While clients are learning they earn credits to spend any way they wish on maternity and baby supplies at the Boutique.
Provides drop-in support services for adult American Indians and Alaska Natives, including clothing, nursing, health care, mental health, cultural programming, housing case management and DSHS support. Operates as a cooling center during weather advisories.
Provides emergency drop-in support services for Native clients.
Services include the following:
- Advocacy/case management
- Emergency clothing
- Nursing services
- Assessment and referral to drug and alcohol treatment
- Cultural programming
- Applications and questions regarding DSHS benefits, as well as BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) benefits.
Also provides a place for clients to socialize, watch television, and participate in Native cultural activities. Offers Native arts and craft sessions weekly.
Operates as a cooling center during weather advisories.
Food Pantry offered at Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church Food Bank
Operates a food pantry for anyone in need. A food box w/ fresh produce is provided. Different dietary needs are provided as well as pet food and toiletry items as available.
Offers a food box with fresh produce weekly. Food is stocked for a variety of needs including:
- Low sodium diets
- Baby items
- "No cook" food
- Pet food
- Toiletry supplies (incontinence, tooth brush, etc.) as available