July 2007:
Contact us:
24-Hour Crisis Line
(206) 461-3222
(866) 4CRISIS or
(866) 427-4747
(206) 461-3219 TTY
24 hours, daily
2-1-1 Community
Information Line
Dial 2-1-1 or
(206) 461-3200
(800) 621-4636
(206) 461-3610 TTY
7:30am-7:30pm, M-F;
9:30am-2:30pm, Sa
Teen Link
(206) 461-4922
(866) TEENLINK or
(866) 833-6546
(206) 461-3219 TTY
6-10pm, nightly
Business Office
1515 Dexter Ave N
Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 461-3210
Fax: (206) 461-8368
8am-5pm, M-F
2-1-1 Community Information Line Sets New Hours
Effective July 1, the 2-1-1
Community Information Line will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., M-F and
9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Sat. This change is a result of a 60 percent reduction
in state funds for supporting the statewide
2-1-1 system, and a direct
reduction in our funding. We
selected these hours after a careful review of our telephone logs to
determine the peak call volume times. Our goal is to have sufficient staff to
answer calls promptly during the times when most people call us. During times when we are not open,
callers can always use Community Resources Online at
www.CrisisClinic.org
Outreach Fair Scheduled
10am-4pm, July 27
Victor Steinbrueck Park
(behind Pike Place Market)
Street Outreach Services is
coordinating an outreach fair with service providers who work with homeless and low-income
individuals, providing shelter, housing, job training, mental health,
substance abuse, HIV prevention, healthcare, legal, refugee services, etc.
Cost is $25 per organization, which includes lunch. Register by July 16. For
details, call (206) 723-6354.
Area Leaders Honored as
‘Voices for Children’
Michael Ramos,
Director of Social Justice Ministries for the Church Council of Greater
Seattle; Laurie Lippold, Public
Policy Director at the Children’s Home Society of Washington; Dr. John Neff,
M.D., of Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center; and Doreen Cato,
Executive Director of First Place in Seattle.
King County Web Site Changes Name
King County’s government Web
site has switched from www.metrokc.gov to www.kingcounty.gov.
All King County employees with e-mail addresses ending in “metrokc.gov” now
end in “kingcounty.gov.”
Summer Sack Lunch Program
Opens
Seattle’s Human Services Department
summer food service program has started and will continue through Aug. 24.
Through the program, children can receive free breakfast, lunch and dinner at
about 100 sites around the city, including community centers, playgrounds,
YMCAs and YWCAs. For more information and a list of sites, click here
or call (206) 684-8691.
Seattle Police Department to
Host DV Volunteer Training
9 a.m. – 5
p.m., Saturdays
Oct. 5 – Nov. 10
SPD’s Domestic
Violence Victim Support Team (VST), is currently accepting applications for its
upcoming 50-hour training academy. The team is a partnership between
community volunteers and the Seattle Police Department and addresses the gap
in services during the weekend to domestic violence victims between the time
patrol officers respond to a call, to the time advocates, detectives, and
prosecutors make contact with the victim for follow up. VST volunteers
provide crisis intervention, emergency resources and referrals to domestic
violence victims and their children on the weekend in the time immediately
following police response to a 911 domestic violence call. After completion
of academy, volunteers serve one eight-hour shift per month, and attend one
two-hour meeting each month. For details, click here
or call (206) 615-0892.
Receive a Free Adult Abuse
Prevention Kit
For July Abuse
Prevention Month, DSHS Adult Protective Services is offering an abuse
prevention kit to help the community be aware of different forms of adult abuse, such as financial
exploitation. To receive a kit, call (800)
422-3263.
Agency Looking for Teen Group
Leaders
9 a.m. – 4
p.m., Saturday, April 21
Qwest Event
Center
Seattle
The Teen Talking
Circle Project: Daughterssisters, Brotherssons, Gendertalks is looking
for facilitators to lead its after-school groups where teens learn to speak
from their hearts and to listen to others with compassion and without
judgment. Groups are organized at the start of each school year and run
throughout the year in area high schools and community centers. A facilitator
training camp will be held in September. For details click here, or call (206) 842-3000.
Community Center
Celebrates Reopening
Friday, July
6
9800 8th
Ave SW
Seattle, WA
The Jim Wiley
Community Center is having a grand re-opening celebration at the Greenbridge Plaza
adjacent to the south side of the community center. The community center is a
program of the Greenbridge Foundation and will house nonprofit tenants including the Southwest King County Boys
& Girls Club and Neighborhood House, as well as provide classroom space
for Highline Community College. For details, call (206) 574-1185.
Workshop Promotes Nonprofits’ Resiliency and
Efficacy
9 a.m.-4:30
p.m., Tuesday, July 17
306 23rd
Avenue S
Safeco South Jackson Street Center
Seattle
The Non-Profit
Staff Development Coalition is hosting a workshop: Building Organizational
Self-Efficacy and Resiliency where participants
will acquire an understanding of self-efficacy and resiliency, examine the
degree of self-efficacy and resiliency within their respective organizations,
and develop strategies to increase these important characteristics. Fees
vary, but are lower for coalition members. For details, click here
or call (206) 870-5908.
Free School Readiness Booklets Available
The Foundation for Early Learning
has produced a booklet called Getting School Ready for families across the
state. It is available in Cambodian, Chinese, English, Russian, Somali, Spanish and
Vietnamese. The booklet helps parents with the process of transitioning their
children into kindergarten. To apply online complete the online order form.
Or print out the order form and mail or fax it in. For details, click here.
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Local
Agencies
Ready for Children Needing School Supplies for Fall
By Hannah Newton, Crisis Clinic
Resource Specialist
The 2006-07 school year has barely ended, but
Crisis Clinic’s
2-1-1 Community Information Line has already started taking
calls from parents needing school supplies for their children starting school
in the fall. Below is a list of agencies that will provide school supplies
this summer, or that provide them throughout the year.
(If your agency is
passing out school supplies, but you are not on this list, please let us
know.)
You can access updated
information about this list by calling
2-1-1. You can also search for school
supplies resources on our Web
site by using “Free School Supplies” as a search term. Some of these
agencies also provide free school clothes or school clothes vouchers. You can
access that updated information on our Web site by using “School Clothing” as
a search term.
Atlantic Street Center – Rainier Beach
Family Center
Coordinates a
yearly Resource Fair where families can get backpacks filled with school
supplies, hear live performances and more. In 2007 the fair will be Aug. 25.
Black Diamond Community Center
Coordinates a one-day event Aug. 29 where area families can get free
backpacks with school supplies as well as used children's clothing for
school.
Eastside Love INC
Provides free back-to-school clothes and supplies for students, ages 5
through 16; eligible East and North King County residents ONLY; call (425) 869-9561 June 20-July 13; first-come, first-served.
Hopelink
Provides school supplies to children of low-income families in specific East
King County ZIP codes; must register as a Hopelink client; items are
distributed the last week of August.
Plateau
Outreach Ministries
Provides backpacks and school supplies for children in the Enumclaw School
District. School supplies will be passed out
Aug. 18.
Project Cool
Provides homeless children and
youth living in emergency shelter and transitional housing programs
throughout King County with back to school supplies. This year we will be
providing almost 1,900 youth throughout King County with Everest Backpacks,
Payless Shoe Vouchers and an array of school supplies. To donate cash for the
backpacks and shoe vouchers or school supplies, drop all donations off
at 1501 N. 45th St. Seattle or call (206) 694-6732.
Puget Sound
Labor Agency – King County Offices
School
supplies are offered to union members and individuals that live in the
following ZIP codes: 98101, 98104, 98109, 98111, 98119, 98121, 98134 and
98199. The supplies are targeted to elementary school children. Typically
supplies are passed out the last couple of weeks before the school year
starts.
ROAR - Resources, Opportunities, Advocacy, and Referrals
Provides backpacks and school supplies for children. Signup starts July 2 and
runs through Aug. 15.
Seattle
International Church
Coordinates an annual backpack
giveaway each summer where children receive free school supplies. The giveaway
will be at 6pm Aug. 25 and 10:30 a.m. Aug. 26.
Seattle Milk Fund
Gives shoe vouchers to purchase shoes for children in Seattle Public Schools.
One $20 shoe voucher good at PAYLESS ShoeSource for children, ages 1-18, (or
still in high school). Provides backpacks with school supplies for low-income
children in the greater Seattle area.
Seattle Public
Schools
Provides school supplies, free
meals and clothing vouchers for children who are verified as homeless.
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New PACT Teams Accepting
Clients with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
By
Sarah Lamont, Peer Support Specialist
PACT
(Program for Assertive Community Treatment) is an evidence-based program
serving adults with severe and persistent mental illness. Developed at
Mendota State Hospital in Wisconsin in the late 1960s, the PACT model has
been applied nationally, in Ontario and abroad. While there are similar programs in operation, King
County’s PACT services rigidly adhere to the national standards that have
been shown to work.
More than 25 research studies
demonstrate that PACT services reduce hospital stays and improve housing
stability while being more satisfactory to consumers than standard care. PACT is intended to help those who
are most disabled by their mental illness and have been hospitalized many
times or for long periods.
PACT
services are voluntary and are intended to assist an individual’s journey
toward recovery by helping each consumer achieve his/her potential and lead a
meaningful life in a community of his/her choosing. King County PACT services
are offered by Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) and the South-East
coalition of Highline West Seattle Mental Health Center, Valley Cities
Counseling and Consultation, and Transitional Resources. King County currently has a total of
180 spaces allotted for PACT participants. Teams will accept four to six clients
each month until they are at full capacity. Both DESC and South-East have started to engage consumers
with enrollments beginning in July.
PACT
consumers benefit from person-centered treatment planning with a team
approach and small caseloads.
PACT consumers participate in planning their treatment;
client-to-staff ratio is expected to be 10 clients per full time staff
person. Staff teams consist of a
psychiatrist, nurses, chemical dependency specialist, vocational specialist,
social workers and peer specialists, who work together with the consumers in
the community to help them achieve their goals. PACT services are flexible
and based on the individual needs of each consumer — services change as the
consumer changes. Because
services are individualized, there is no predetermined timeline for PACT
participation. Consumers receive assistance as long as is needed. PACT
programs provide 24/7 crisis services, and the programs will be staffed on
the holidays.
If
someone you know is interested in PACT services, contact Bill Wilson, King
County Project Manager at 206.205.5881 or billr.wilson@mentrokc.gov , or
Sarah Lamont, assistant to King County Project Manager and Peer Support
Specialist at 206.296.5244 or sarah.lamont@metrokc.gov
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Washington State’s New Health Care Law Expands
Coverage for Children
Information
compiled by the Children’s Alliance
Families can start applying now to
see if they qualify for children’s health coverage under a new law passed by
the legislature in March (Senate Bill 5093). This new law seeks to ensure
that children will be able to see a doctor, encourages high quality care
through a medical home, invests in outreach to find and enroll eligible
families and declares goals for nutrition and exercise in schools.
Under the new children's health
coverage law, several health coverage programs are consolidated into a single
unified coverage program for children in families making up to 250% of the
Federal Poverty Level. All children will receive comprehensive coverage,
regardless of income or citizenship status, although families with incomes
between 200% and 250% of the FPL will pay a small monthly premium.
Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision and mental health. The
state will provide funding to cover all enrolled children, and there will be
no more caps or waiting lists for medical coverage.
Beginning in January 2009,
coverage will be expanded to children in families making up to 300% of the
FPL; families with incomes above 200% of FPL (for a family of four that is
$41,300) will pay a sliding-scale monthly premium. Middle-class families
(those above 300% FPL) will be able to buy comprehensive coverage from the
state at full cost.
Families can apply now by
calling the Healthy Kids Now Hotline at (877) 543-7669. Applications will be
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Critical
Resource Updates
Compiled by Crisis Clinic’s Resource Center
It is always
recommended to check Community
Resources Online for additional information and for the most current
information updates of the following resources.
Capital Hill Community Resource Center is
without a facility. It hopes to reopen in a new location sometime before the
end of 2007.
Catholic Community
Services – Elizabeth House has three openings in its transitional housing
program. It operates transitional housing and support services for five
teenage women and their children, for up to two years, while residents attend
school. Serves women, ages 13 through 17, who are parenting or pregnant.
Catholic Community
Services no longer operates the Mutual Interest program, which provided
funding for agencies that gave low-income families security deposits to move
into permanent housing.
Family
Kitchen, run by the Catholic Worker Community, is now run by St. James
Cathedral and is now called Cathedral Kitchen. It now has no age restrictions
on its hot meal programs.
His Ministry now operates
its hot meal program out of Grace Community Church, 1320 Auburn Way S, in
Auburn. The meal was formerly at Les Gove Park. All other information remains
the same.
The St. Vincent de Paul conference serving Des Moines and
Sea Tac is no longer able to serve clients in those cities until further
notice due to lack of volunteers.
SHARE/WHEEL’s Tent City 3 moved to Haller Lake United Methodist Church,
13055 First Avenue NE, Seattle WA 98125 July 1. It will be in that location
through September.
TeenHOPE has
closed its drop-in center and meal program for youth. They are looking for
more funding sources.
As of July 10 West
Seattle Helpline will reopen in a new location – 6516 35th Ave
SW #204 on the corner of 35th and Morgan. The phone number will
remain the same.
The Young Adult Services
Division of the YMCA currently has
several openings in its transitional “shared homes” located throughout
the county. Preference is given to former foster youth. Youth
interested in accessing housing must complete a four course “housing
class.” Limited opportunities for subsidized permanent housing may also
be available. For details, call (206) 749-7550.
Youthcare – Orion Multi-Service Center
plans to open its shower and laundry facilities in mid-July. •
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July and August
Selected Resources
Compiled by Crisis Clinic’s
Resource Center Staff
This column
highlights available timely resources in the community information
database that might otherwise go unnoticed by our users. It is always
recommended to check Community
Resources Online for additional information and for the most current
information concerning the following resources.
July Resource Highlights
Bellevue Parks and
Community Services
Hires teenagers to work on a variety of projects throughout the park system
in July and August. Project examples include trail maintenance, painting
fences, and building sheds. Also offers an employment-training program and
personal finance class to those already enrolled in the program.
Ethnic
Heritage Council
The
22nd Annual Naturalization Ceremony for new citizens is held on the 4th of July
at Seattle Center from noon to 1:00 p.m. More than
500 individuals from over 70 countries will take the oath of US citizenship.
Elected officials, dignitaries, friends, relatives and others pay tribute to
these new citizens in a poignant program featuring entertainment by the US
Navy Band Northwest, a Native American storyteller and children from around
the world. Visit
the Web site for a contribution/membership form.
Mary Bridge Children's Hospital - Bridges -
A Center For Grieving Children
Provides support groups for
families with children. With others their own age, children express their
feelings though discussion and specially designed activities. Simultaneous
support groups are offered for the parents. The following support groups are
offered:
·
Crossings: support group is for
children who have experienced the violent death or suicide of a parent or
sibling.
·
Discoveries: support group is
for children who are living with someone who is chronically or critically
ill.
·
Parent Loss Support Groups: are
for children who have lost their parents.
·
Sibling Loss Support Group: is
for children who have lost a sibling.
Call (253) 272-8266 for an
intake appointment. New families may join ongoing groups in November,
February, April, July and September.
August
Resource Highlights
God’s Grace In Action
Solicits school supplies from area churches and civic groups. They are
supplied to Highline School district counselors at all grade levels, who then
distribute to students in need. Program begins in August.
Seattle's Union Gospel Mission - Youth Reach Out
Center
Offers after-school activities September through June. Drop-in center's facilities
include full-sized gymnasium, weight room, game room, computer lab and
theater. Registration usually begins in early August.
Special Olympics
Washington
Will hold its Summer Sports Classic Aug. 25-26 in Everett and Lynnwood.
Serves individuals with an intellectual disability or a closely related
developmental disability, ages 8 and older. •
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This Newsletter was last updated on 6/28/2007
Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:00 AM
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