815 Seattle Blvd S, Ste 216
Seattle, WA 98134
(206) 652-8901
Wellspring Family Services is a nonprofit, multi-service agency that helps families move through trauma and reach their full potential. COMMUNITY SERVICES: Through our charitable services, we help homeless families find and keep stable housing. We offer early learning to 100 homeless children annually, focusing on their social and emotional needs as well as intellectual growth to mitigate the effects of trauma and get them ready for kindergarten. We offer counseling and domestic violence intervention. Each year we serve more than 5,000 low-income and vulnerable families and individuals in Seattle and King County, helping them break the debilitating cycles of instability, homelessness, and adversity to achieve positive, permanent change in their lives. When you donate or volunteer through Wellspring Family Services, you are benefiting our community service programs. Wellspring Family Services also runs two social enterprise agencies: Wellspring Counseling and Wellspring Employee Assistance Program. COUNSELING: Our Seattle and Eastside therapists work with individuals, couples, and families to navigate life’s challenges and explore possibilities. We offer parenting support; classes and workshops; and individual, couple, and family counseling. We also offer training and workshops for mental health counselors. EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: We help organizations harness the strength of their workforce by providing responsive EAP services that help employers and employees reach their full potential.
Open Arms provides doula services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate, including providing bilingual and bicultural doulas, which are crucial in helping to eliminate health disparities in our society. Doulas are trained, experienced, and certified to provide caring support to women before, during, and immediately after birth. Birthing women who are served by Open Arms doulas benefit from: - Access to culturally and linguistically appropriate, quality perinatal care. - Education and support during the birth process that helps new parents make the transition from pregnancy to birth and take on the daunting task of caring for a newborn. - A diminished sense of isolation that can be devastating to a new family. - Nurturing support through pregnancy and birth that leads to increased health and well being for mothers, babies and families. Our regional Birth Doula Services provides quality perinatal support to low-income pregnant women and their families from the last trimester of pregnancy to six-weeks postpartum. The services include home visits, education, and advocacy. Our doulas provide emotional and physical support; information and educational materials, as well as coaching to new parents on positive nurturing and attachment behaviors, and support for breastfeeding. The doula is present and attending the mother during labor, delivery, and immediately postpartum, and provides social support, light case management, and referrals to other services as needed. As a partner in the Thrive by Five White Center Early Learning Initiative, Open Arms provides outreach doulas to the Somali and Latina communities as a part of the Home-Based Early Learning Strategy. Outreach doulas provide culture-specific services that begin early in pregnancy and continue up to two years after delivery, helping women and their families who need more intensive support during pregnancy and early parenting. In addition to the emotional and physical support, education and advocacy, and parent coaching that all doulas provide, outreach doulas also: - Perform comprehensive assessments. - Engage families in a plan of care. - Develop a mentoring relationship focusing on healthy pregnancy, birth, parenting, and early learning. - Act as community liaisons with other community agencies and professionals. Open Arms is partnered with the King County Department of Public Health—Women Infant Children program to provide Breastfeeding Peer Counseling Services. BPC offers an opportunity for new moms to talk to someone trained in providing breastfeeding support who has shared the same experience—someone who they can relate to and feel comfortable sharing concerns. Peer counselors’ model and provide breastfeeding information and offer support to mothers. They fill the gap in services after hospital discharge to provide breastfeeding support, as they are accessible in the evenings and weekends, outside of normal clinic or hospital business hours. Counselors provide essential support for mothers by phone, email, or in-person, especially during the critical early days and weeks of infants’ lives. Open Arms administers a scholarship fund for low-income women who wish to become certified practicing doulas. Scholarships are provided for training, textbooks and professional fees. By recruiting women from the communities that we serve, our Birth Doula Outreach and Training Project provides a pathway to economic independence for women of limited resources to establish professional careers as doulas while serving their own communities.
It’s long been told that the light on the top of the space needle is the fabled “Weedle on the Needle”. I’m here to shatter your illusions of the Seattle populace. WE ARE GAMERS. That light you see on top of the space needle? That’s the power light on a computer case… on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Fridays, it’s the green glow of a XBOX 360 light. That Sasquatch is a diehard, cold nerved gamer. He’s from the LANd of Microsoft, Nintendo - North America, Valve, PopCap, Runic and many other game and IT companies. It has been a long time since there’s been a LAN in the Seattle area. And this Sasquatch is out for two things: to chew bubblegum and play some LAN games and to quote the Duke Nukem and to learn to count correctly and he’s all out of bubblegum. Emerald City LAN has been put together to give the people a chance to gather and get their game on. We’re a group of gamers that value having a good time and sportsmanship over hyper-competitiveness and elitism. We’ve had experience both working and playing in other people LANs and now it’s our chance to share the gift of gaming. We’re starting out small but it’s a good start. We plan on traveling the length of LAN games with FPSs, MOBAs, RTSs and TBSs. Since you’re one of us, I won’t bother explaining the acronyms. If you googled those acronyms to tell your friends about the LAN? You’re probably also one of us too! We look forward to you joining us this March (5:00PM 3.2.2012 until 5:00 PM 3.4.2012). Let’s get our game on! This is the Official Facebook page for the Emerald City LAN. You can also reach us via Twitter @emeraldcityLAN
FAN's powerful base in the faith community, persistent moral voice, outspoken public witness, and commitment to issues of justice, compassion, and inclusiveness will improve the quality of life for all people in Washington State.
An independent think tank that promotes sound public policy based on free-market solutions.
Code 4 Northwest is an entirely volunteer-run, free and confidential crisis response and referral network for Washington State active and retired first responders, EMS, corrections, civilian support personnel, and their families. Code 4 Northwest was created to ensure these individuals of Washington State have access to the best help possible when in crisis. We are dedicated to providing the best personalized service and resources to those individuals experiencing a crisis. Your call will be answered by a live person who understands the issues you are confronting. All call-takers are current or former first responders or work in the public safety/EMS field in Washington State. Confidentiality is protected by RCW 43.101.425. Confidential Crisis Response & Referrals for: Drug/Alcohol Treatment Peer Support Services PTSD Resources Financial Counseling General Counseling & Referral Services And MORE...
Brothers for Life is created and run by disabled Israeli officers. We aim to give critical and immediate help to disabled Israeli combat soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the safety of the Jewish people. The model of “injured soldiers helping other injured soldiers” has given us both the leverage and trust to help young Israelis who are suffering daily from their injuries. These are some of the most selfless and talented young men in the country and they are the future of the State of Israel. Many of them are officers from elite units and as they continue to improve, they will go on to be the diplomats, activists and entrepreneurs that Israel needs.
Founded in 1989 in response to a needs survey of area human services providers, the Sharehouse is a furniture bank for families and individuals who are transitioning from homelessness into permanent housing. Our warehouse is stocked with items donated by community members and local businesses. It is the only program of its kind in King County. Moving a family or individual into an empty apartment after a period of homelessness does not take them very far from homelessness. Moving into is expensive and stressful for anyone, but especially for those who have experienced homelessness. Our program makes it possible for clients to establish a safe and secure new household, while also helping restore their dignity and self-sufficiency. The Sharehouse helps turn housing into homes by providing the most basic necessities such as beds, linens, and dishes. Last year, working with approximately 50 member agencies throughout King County, we helped 2,342 people (including 954 children under 18) establish 1,166 new households. In doing so, we also kept more than 20,000 items donated by community members and local businesses out of our area landfills.
The game of Bowls can hook you. It’s fun. It’s social. It’s easy to learn, yet hard to master. Lawn Bowls is enjoyed around the world by young and old as a serious sport or a recreational activity. At Jefferson Park Lawn Bowling Club there are events for any interest and skill level. Members enjoy leagues, tournaments, casual games, and social parties.
Open Arms provides doula services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate, including providing bilingual and bicultural doulas, which are crucial in helping to eliminate health disparities in our society. Doulas are trained, experienced, and certified to provide caring support to women before, during, and immediately after birth. Birthing women who are served by Open Arms doulas benefit from: - Access to culturally and linguistically appropriate, quality perinatal care. - Education and support during the birth process that helps new parents make the transition from pregnancy to birth and take on the daunting task of caring for a newborn. - A diminished sense of isolation that can be devastating to a new family. - Nurturing support through pregnancy and birth that leads to increased health and well being for mothers, babies and families. Our regional Birth Doula Services provides quality perinatal support to low-income pregnant women and their families from the last trimester of pregnancy to six-weeks postpartum. The services include home visits, education, and advocacy. Our doulas provide emotional and physical support; information and educational materials, as well as coaching to new parents on positive nurturing and attachment behaviors, and support for breastfeeding. The doula is present and attending the mother during labor, delivery, and immediately postpartum, and provides social support, light case management, and referrals to other services as needed. As a partner in the Thrive by Five White Center Early Learning Initiative, Open Arms provides outreach doulas to the Somali and Latina communities as a part of the Home-Based Early Learning Strategy. Outreach doulas provide culture-specific services that begin early in pregnancy and continue up to two years after delivery, helping women and their families who need more intensive support during pregnancy and early parenting. In addition to the emotional and physical support, education and advocacy, and parent coaching that all doulas provide, outreach doulas also: - Perform comprehensive assessments. - Engage families in a plan of care. - Develop a mentoring relationship focusing on healthy pregnancy, birth, parenting, and early learning. - Act as community liaisons with other community agencies and professionals. Open Arms is partnered with the King County Department of Public Health—Women Infant Children program to provide Breastfeeding Peer Counseling Services. BPC offers an opportunity for new moms to talk to someone trained in providing breastfeeding support who has shared the same experience—someone who they can relate to and feel comfortable sharing concerns. Peer counselors’ model and provide breastfeeding information and offer support to mothers. They fill the gap in services after hospital discharge to provide breastfeeding support, as they are accessible in the evenings and weekends, outside of normal clinic or hospital business hours. Counselors provide essential support for mothers by phone, email, or in-person, especially during the critical early days and weeks of infants’ lives. Open Arms administers a scholarship fund for low-income women who wish to become certified practicing doulas. Scholarships are provided for training, textbooks and professional fees. By recruiting women from the communities that we serve, our Birth Doula Outreach and Training Project provides a pathway to economic independence for women of limited resources to establish professional careers as doulas while serving their own communities.
ILWU Local 19 is the longshore local for the Port of Seattle. We represent the workforce that moves marine cargo through the Port of Seattle. This page is operated by Local 19's District Council.
Developing art council for Beacon Hill Neighborhood. Join us in weaving art into the on-going community life of our neighborhood.
We serve children and families in Seattle and Sea-Tac. Head Start operates at 3 sites: International District, Beacon Hill, and Rainier Beach. Early Head Start provides home based services and group socializations in Beacon Hill and in the community. Go to http://www.deniselouie.org and click on Contact Us to get in touch with our various centers.