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Cara Lauer works with Elderwise as part of her contributions as a member of the Momentia Seattle Stewardship Team.

Disability Empowerment Center provides our community in King County with access to resources and peer support. We are a nonprofit dedicated to helping people of all abilities find services to live as independently as you choose. We offer you choices in an empowering setting whether you are looking to learn new skills, join a peer support group, get help transitioning into living on your own or find other community-based services.

We help you find and access community resources and services for employment, transportation, housing, communication, benefits and more.

We empower you to perfect the life skills you need to live as independently as you want.

We support people transitioning from institutional living to living on their own.

We facilitate peer groups to help you share your experience and gain resources and support from other people with disabilities.

We advocate for policies and programs that make sure disabled people like us have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.

We partner with businesses to ensure workplaces are accessible and inclusive to all.

Disability Empowerment Center provides our community in King County with access to resources and peer support. We are a nonprofit dedicated to helping people of all abilities find services to live as independently as you choose. We offer you choices in an empowering setting whether you are looking to learn new skills, join a peer support group, get help transitioning into living on your own or find other community-based services.

We help you find and access community resources and services for employment, transportation, housing, communication, benefits and more.

We empower you to perfect the life skills you need to live as independently as you want.

We support people transitioning from institutional living to living on their own.

We facilitate peer groups to help you share your experience and gain resources and support from other people with disabilities.

We advocate for policies and programs that make sure disabled people like us have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.

We partner with businesses to ensure workplaces are accessible and inclusive to all.

Disability Empowerment Center provides our community in King County with access to resources and peer support. We are a nonprofit dedicated to helping people of all abilities find services to live as independently as you choose. We offer you choices in an empowering setting whether you are looking to learn new skills, join a peer support group, get help transitioning into living on your own or find other community-based services.

We help you find and access community resources and services for employment, transportation, housing, communication, benefits and more.

We empower you to perfect the life skills you need to live as independently as you want.

We support people transitioning from institutional living to living on their own.

We facilitate peer groups to help you share your experience and gain resources and support from other people with disabilities.

We advocate for policies and programs that make sure disabled people like us have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.

We partner with businesses to ensure workplaces are accessible and inclusive to all.

Our Mission
To end loneliness in the lives of seniors, one senior at a time, “Friend to Friend”. Friend to Friend America recruits and trains volunteers in the community to visit lonely and isolated seniors.

Friend to Friend America can help
Would you like a visitor? Do you know someone that could benefit from a visiting friend? Are your parents or grandparents living miles away? Are you unable to get there to visit as often as you would like? Would your relative enjoy the company of a friend? Fill out our request form today! (Please note, at this time our service area is limited to Washington State.)

Trillium Employment Services
We are a business resource helping Washington companies build an inclusive workforce and partners with businesses to assist with staffing efficiencies. We are not your traditional staffing company that just fills open positions.

Trillium helps businesses recruit, train and advance employees with developmental disabilities. We believe businesses are stronger when they have diverse abilities in their workforce. We offer companies solutions that fill labor gaps, strengthen business, and improve diversity.

Trillium is a nonprofit organization, serving Washington since 1983. We are funded through public resources, so businesses do not pay for Trillium’s consultation services.

The Northwest LGBT Senior Care Providers Network is a network of senior care providers working together to provide advocacy and quality of care for the LGBT seniors of Washington State. Members offer their expertise in fields that include, but are not limited to, attorneys, community services and senior centers, fiduciaries, financial planning, government agencies, home care agencies, home health agencies, housing providers, information services, insurance providers, moving services, and pharmacy services.

Monthly meetings, with guest speakers, cover a wide array of topics focusing on LGBT elders today and tomorrow.

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A referral agency for seniors in the Pacific Northwest offering assistance in finding solutions to their housing and care needs.

LET OASIS BE YOUR GUIDE ON YOUR SEARCH FOR SENIOR LIVING OPTIONS!
Find Your Local Advisor Today!

SENIOR LIVING ADVISORS
Oasis Senior Advisors Help You Find the Right Place
When you or your loved one begins searching for living arrangements suited to your care needs, the process can quickly become intimidating. Oasis Senior Advisors offers free, community-based referral senior housing assistance to aid in finding a place just right for you or your loved one. Using our knowledge of local resources and our proprietary OasisIQ™ software, we work with you and your family to help match you with the senior living options that suit your needs and preferences. Our personal one-on-one approach allows us to advise seniors and their families with compassion and informed data based on lifestyle, location, finances, health conditions, and more.

EXPLORING HOMECARE OPTIONS?
Turn to Oasis for free, local, and knowledgeable guidance in finding the right place. Call (888) 455-5838 to connect with a certified advisor located in your area.

Sound Generations has six community partner sites and ten programs that connect people to various food, security, transportation, health and wellness, and assistance services throughout King County. A network of community connections provides multiple services for seniors and adults with disabilities and those who care for them, including telephone, in-person, and written information and assistance; a network of senior centers; the Meals on Wheels and grocery delivery programs; minor home repair services, including making disability modifications; and arranging for transportation. Information is available on legal topics, e.g., end-of-life planning and an elder law clinic. We offer complimentary health and wellness programs and serve as health insurance benefits advisors for King County.

Open Doors for Multicultural Families (Open Doors or ODMF) provides culturally and linguistically relevant information, services, and programming to culturally and linguistically diverse families of persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The families we serve are often immigrants, refugees, and/or people of color. We accomplish this using a “cultural brokering” model. Our staff come from the same culture and speak the same language as the families they serve, and so are able to communicate with the family in their own language, and in a way that will make sense within their cultural context. Additionally, these staff are knowledgeable of disabilities services, Special Education, and other mainstream social services, and to bridge the gap between the families we serve and the services they need. Currently, our bilingual/bicultural Family Support Staff provide services in English, Spanish, Somali, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Khmer.

Areas of focus include:

Nursing Services | 24-hour skilled care and rehabilitation services.

Social Services | Assisting patients and their families during transitional periods, providing essential information, managing requests and concerns, and helping in care planning and discharge planning.

Rehabilitation | Individualized programs to reach goals of increased independence and ability. Patient families are also encouraged to participate in therapy sessions, caregiver education, and training.

Long Term and End of Life Care | Care focusing on differing populations of individuals--many patients require several days or weeks of medical care and therapy before they can safely return home or to a lower level of care.

Substance use disorders have a greater effect on LGBTQ+ people than on the heterosexual population. The LGBTQ+ community must overcome several obstacles, including being denied substance abuse treatment because of their sexual identity. However, through the proper understanding and accommodation of LGBTQ+ care principles, substance abuse treatment can be successful.

Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community have rates of substance abuse higher than those of the general population. Their daily battles with discrimination and stigma cause high levels of stress that may push them toward drug and alcohol use.

At DrugRehab.com, our mission is to equip patients and families with the best information, resources and tools to overcome addiction and pursue lifelong recovery. We are here to help you or your loved one every step of the way.

It is the mission of the Pathways to Healing Program to honor traditional values and beliefs that promote safety and well-being for Native American/Alaska Native families by providing a holistic approach inform, educate and heal our communities affected by violence.

Mission

The mission of the Cowlitz Tribal Pathways to Healing Program is to honor traditional values and beliefs that promote safety and well being for Native American/Alaska Native families by providing a holistic approach to inform, educate and heal our communities affected by violence.

Eligibility

To be eligible you must be a Native American or Alaska Native (you do not have to be enrolled) who has experienced, or know someone who has experienced, domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence or stalking at any point in your life. Services are also available to clients of all other Health and Human Services Programs regardless of Native identity.

Services offered include:

• Information and Referrals
• Cultural Advocacy
• Community Outreach
• Emergency Services
• Safety Planning
• Legal Advocacy
• Outreach and Prevention Services
• Online Social Media
• Positive Youth Development
• Support to Secondary survivors/victims
• Table Events
• Training
• Transitional Housing
• Medical Advocacy

All services are confidential and available to women, children and men. While the Pathways to Healing Program recognizes that a person can be both a survivor and a perpetrator over the course of their life, the focus of participation in services must be exclusive to the effects of the victimization.

Sammamish Mortgage is a family owned and operated lender who has been proudly serving the Pacific Northwest since 1992. We believe in making the mortgage process as transparent as possible and we were a pioneer in allowing clients to price their own loan, track rates and experience an online digital mortgage process. Combining technology with advice from our highly experienced team, we consistently provide an efficient 5-star experience for our clients and referral partners.

GenPride empowers older LGBTQ adults to live with pride and dignity by promoting, connecting, and developing innovative programs and services that enhance belonging and support, eliminate discrimination, and honor the lives of older members of our community.

Visit GenPride's website for information about:

Training Classes
Upcoming Events Calendar
Resource Directory
Information and Assistance
GenPRIDE's Blog
Volunteer Opportunities

PAEP or Pacific Asian Empowerment Program was born out of a grassroots demand by Filipinos, Tongans, Hmong, Mien, Laotians, Samoan, Polynesian volunteers, and clients demanding changes from oppression and lack of understanding by larger groups and agencies that had not been culturally sensitive to their heritage and needs.

PAEP and its Senior Nutrition Congregate Meal Program addresses many important issues such as diminishing and alleviating hunger, isolation, loneliness, depression, malnutrition, obesity, inactivity, and sedentary lifestyles.  When the seniors come to the meal sites they socialize, exercise, listen to music, sing, dance, eat a healthy and tasty meal using ingredients similar to the foods they were used to eat back home.  The seniors receive good, helpful information, peer counselling, information and referral, food bank donated items.  They sometimes play bingo, watch the news and discuss issues and current events with others.  We are helping families and seniors in the Seattle, King County area to live healthier, happier and more independent lives, thus contributing to an improved community with a healthier and more productive population.

The Seattle Counseling Service (SCS) is committed to providing accessible services to all of our community. We have continuously found innovative strategies to meet the behavioral health needs of our diverse and complex LGBTQ community.

Areas of focus include:

Consultation + training: SCS staff are experts in issues relating to the LGBTQ community and can also speak generally or specifically about mental health and/or chemical dependency.

Testing + sexual health: We partner with other community organizations to provide free, confidential testing that is open to all. We also offer safe sex supplies and safe sex kits.

Support groups: Support groups can help provide a place to discuss your feelings, share information, and connect with peers and other members of the LGBTQ community.

We offer a sliding fee scale in addition to accepting Medicaid and many insurance plans.

The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging is the country's first and only technical assistance resource center aimed at improving the quality of services and supports offered to lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender older adults. Established in 2010 through a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging provides training, technical assistance and educational resources to aging providers, LGBT organizations and LGBT older adults. The center is led by SAGE, in collaboration with 18 leading organizations from around the country.

• Address = 908 Jefferson St, 11th floor, Seattle WA, 98104
• Phone Number = 206-744-3590
• Email address = N/A
• Website = www.kingcounty.gov/std
• Description = HIV/STD testing, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Languages Spoken = English & Spanish (Interpreters available for all other languages)
• ADA Access (Yes/Not Currently) = Yes
• Intended Age Group (If applicable) = All Ages

Korean Women's Association (also known as KWA) provides services in 11 Western Washington counties with 1,400+ employees serving the diverse needs of more than 10,000 people each year.

Programs and Services Include:

• Senior Wellness
• Benefit Enrollment
• Citizenship Support
• Elder Abuse Advocacy
• Domestic Violence Advocacy & Shelter
• Community & Behavioral Health Navigation
• In-Home Care
• Senior Activity Centers
• Community Center
• Affordable Housing

Our mission is to provide multi-cultural, multi-lingual human services, regardless of race or ethnic background, to diverse communities through education, socialization, advocacy, and support.

Cecily Kaplan works with the Alzheimer's Association as part of their contribution as a member of the Momentia Seattle Stewardship Team.

The African American Elders Program, run by Catholic Community Services, serve older B/AA who are home bound, hard to serve, low income, and have chronic and/or severe disabilities, living with dementia and related disorders, and are at high risk of premature institutionalization. The program specializes in providing culturally competent and sensitive care specific to B/AA that have lived in a high crime environment and with a lifetime battling discrimination and racism.