Rick's Toys For Kids

At First Place, we recognize the special needs of families in transition due to homelessness or crises that impact family stability. We are a service agency devoted to educating and nurturing children whose families struggle with the risk or reality of homelessness. We offer housing, culturally relevant education and support services enabling families to achieve permanent stability. First Place provides many services to families at no cost.

206-323-6715
www.firstplaceschool.org

The Mission’s Women and Children’s Shelter (WCS) is located in the International District at 520 South King Street. The Shelter, formerly the American Hotel, has 52 rooms and can house up to 90 women and children. The WCS is one of the few facilities in Seattle that accepts women with male children up to age 18. We provide emergency care and long-term recovery services to hurting and homeless people in Seattle. We’ll serve, rescue and transform those in need until we’ve solved the root causes of poverty and homelessness.

206-723-0767
www.ugm.org

The Family & Adult Service Center, or FASC, has supported the homeless in Seattle since 1966. Our guiding vision has been to help homeless adults and families transition off the street into more self-sufficient lifestyles. Our mission is to serve people who are in crisis by helping them find a more stable situation where they can make positive changes in their lives and live with dignity Thanks to its dedicated staff and many volunteers, the Center has been enormously successful. FASC has been blessed with visionary executive directors who have expanded programming to meet the ever growing need of homeless in our community.

206-441-8405
www.fasonline.org

The list of accolades accruing to Harborview Medical Center is far too long for our catalogue. Established in 1877, Harborview has grown to become one of the top three hospitals in the nation in rehabilitation and is in the top 20 in neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics and geriatrics, and is the only Level I adult and pediatric trauma and burn center in Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. In 2010, Harborview saw nearly 250,000 clinic visits, over 60,000 emergency room visits and provided $187,000,000 in charity care. Harborview physicians founded the Medic One emergency response unit in cooperation with the Seattle Fire Department. More than 500 people provide volunteer services at Harborview.

Each year Harborview reaches out to families in the community they have served who have been identified as being in need and invites them to their annual holiday party. Toys for Kids has participated with Harborview in providing toys to these families; last year over 1,250 children attended.

325 Ninth Ave.
Seattle, WA 98104-2499
General Information: 206.744.3000

Broadview Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing Program provides emergency shelter for single women and women with children for up to 6 weeks, and transitional housing for up to 18 months to women with children, all at a secure, confidential location.

Broadview’s children’s program provides age-specific education and support groups for its youngest residents that help them overcome the traumas of displacement and family violence. We also have individual tutors and a homework group. For more information about the shelter or transitional housing program, call (206) 299-2500, or toll free at 1-877-622-3122.

Since 1972, Seattle Emergency Housing Services (SEHS) has been providing shelter to homeless families, along with helping them to become self-sufficient members of our community. Our mission is to provide housing and support services to help families with children to break the cycle of homelessness and become self-sufficient members of our community.

206-461-3660.
www.emergencyhousing.org

745 Front Street South
Issaquah, WA 98027-4206
Tel: 425-392-4169
Fax: 425-392-2946
E-mail: office@oslcissaquah.org.

Vision House was founded by John and Susan Camerer of Renton, Washington in 1990. The vision came after viewing a made-for-television movie about a single mother who, through a series of events that were no fault of her own, became homeless. The heartbreaking conclusion of the story was in the closing scene when the mother reluctantly placed her young daughter in the care of the state because she felt she could not give her the care she needed while she was living on the streets. That night after the movie, the Camerer’s felt a very strong calling to meet the needs of the homeless in their community. The founders believe by meeting the physical needs of the homeless, they have the opportunity to show them God’s love and make an everlasting difference in the lives of those with whom they come in contact.

P.O. Box 2951
Renton, Washington 98056
Phone: 425-228-6356
Fax: 425-430-9590
E mail: info@vision-house.org

Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities. Hopelink’s mission is to promote self-sufficiency for all members of our community; we help people make lasting change.

Hopelink emergency service centers are located in Bellevue, Kirkland, Northshore, Redmond, Shoreline and Sno-Valley.

Hopelink is funded by diverse sources including public and private foundations, United Way, government support and by donations from individuals, organizations and corporations in the community. Hopelink runs efficiently by keeping expenses low. With administrative costs at only eight percent of the budget, a full 92% of financial support goes directly to helping families in crisis and preventing homelessness.

16225 NE 87th St., Suite A-1
P.O. Box 3577
Redmond, WA 98073-3577
425.869.6000
www.hope-link.org

Over 120 years ago, a group of fifteen prominent women joined together to form Seattle’s first charity known as the Ladies’ Relief Society. From the work of those fifteen women grew what is now known as Seattle Children’s Home. During this long history, Seattle Children’s Home has evolved from an orphanage to a child welfare agency, to its present mission of providing comprehensive mental health care for Washington’s most challenging children, young adults, and their families or caregivers.

2142 10th Avenue West
Seattle, Washington 98119
206-283-3300
www.seattlechildrenshome.org

Founded in 1910, our mission is to help families and communities raise healthy, successful children and youth. We do this by providing counseling, educational, social, and recreational programs for families in the greater Seattle Area. We primarily serve low-income families who are African American, and other people of color.

Each year we provide services to approximately 3,000 children between 2-18 years old and their families. Many are facing the challenges of single parenthood, foster care, neighborhood detachment, limited support, and academic underachievement.

86% of participating children strengthen coping skills
92% increase social skills
95% of the parents improved parenting skills.

2103 So. Atlantic Street
Seattle WA 98144
206-329-2050
www.atlanticstreet.org

The Country Doctor Community Clinic was founded in 1971 by a group of community activists who recognized the need for medical care services in their neighborhood. Originally operating from an abandoned Fire station in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Country Doctor was an all-volunteer free clinic offering services only in the evenings. As the community’s reliance on the clinic’s services grew, Country Doctor evolved into a respected primary care provider that today operates from two sites and offers a full range of health care services.

“Since our founding, our primary goal has been to provide the highest quality comprehensive health care to our patients. From that goal comes our commitment to provide comprehensive care, combining outpatient and in-patient family practice primary care with community health care and preventive health education. It is in this way that the organization has been able to have a positive impact on the health of the communities we serve. The mission of Country Doctor Community Health Centers is to improve the health of our community by providing high quality, caring, culturally appropriate primary health care that addresses the needs of people regardless of their ability to pay.”

500 19th Ave E
Seattle, WA 98112
(206) 299-1600
www.countrydoctor.org

At Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Western Washington & Alaska (RMHC), we support seriously ill children and their families. At the Seattle Ronald McDonald House, we provide a “home-away-from-home” to help families through a difficult time. We also provide a van service for families staying in Anchorage while their children receive medical care. Ronald McDonald House

Brettler Family Place offers 51 permanent housing units for formerly homeless families with children under 18. Families receive onsite supportive case management services, resources and referrals. We offer classes for both children and adults focusing on employment, increasing education, English language skills, parenting and financial fitness.
Solid Ground

Seattle Children’s Hospital specializes in meeting the unique physical, emotional and developmental needs of children from infancy through young adulthood. For more than 100 years, we have been dedicated to providing top-quality care to every child in our region who needs us, regardless of the family’s ability to pay.
Seattle Children’s Hospital