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Green Cross PATIENT CO-OP (GCPC) of Seattle encourages patients to utilize numerous methods of medicating beyond smoking marijuana, such as herbal tinctures and teas, medicated baked goods, cannabis candy and chocolates, oral sprays for quick dosing and sore throats and tooth aches, and topical applications for pain, swelling, gout, cuts, burns, scratches, rashes, insect bites, sunburns, dry, chapped skin, herpes, stiff necks, headaches (even migraines), arthritis, tendinitis and more. GCPC also offers classes for patients on Washington State Medical Marijuana laws and how to grow medicine for themselves. GCPC of Seattle is a private, not for profit cooperative of Washington State medical marijuana (MMJ), patients whose mission is to assist each other through counseling, support, information, education, verification and registry. The Green Cross PATIENT CO-OP is open to Washington State residents that present a bona fide need for medicinal cannabis on the advice of their physician or other health care professional.
Alternative Health Treatment & Healing Center is a compassionate group that is dedicated to providing healthier options for residents of Washington State. They offer low income assisiance to those who qualify, 100% medically defensable authorizations, and a knowledgable, friendly staff.
Seattle Medical Marijuana Association (SMMA) is a small grow co-op consisting of qualified marijuana patients linked together by their mutual need to produce the highest quality organic medicine for personal use. SMMA strives to provide a safe place for patients that is a model of compassion and legal integrity. The SMMA operates in strict compliance with the letter and the spirit of Washington’s medical marijuana laws.
Buy local when you shop at Ventures. Discover one of Seattle’s most unique and inspiring gift stores, located in Pike Place Market. Behind each locally-produced item at Ventures, you’ll find an aspiring entrepreneur working hard to turn their dreams into reality. You can shop and make a difference! The store showcases handcrafted products from local and low-income entrepreneurs. Ventures, 1501 Pike Place, Suite #521 (mezzanine level below the main arcade), Seattle, WA 98101 (Market map). Hours are Monday – Saturday: 10:00am – 6:00pm, Sundays: 10:00am – 5:00pm.
Join the Grand Opening on November 19 and 20, 2011 when Ventures’ celebrates its move to Pike Place Market! There will be special entertainment all weekend long, including free samples, door prizes, and fun activities like face painting.
Ventures is the “retail incubator” of Washington CASH (Community Alliance for Self-Help). Working with program participants and the community, Washington CASH is committed to the growth of small businesses, stronger communities, and brighter futures throughout the Puget Sound region and beyond.
Washington CASH is a microenterprise development organization that provides people with low incomes access to capital and business development training. Washington CASH provides training, loans, consulting, marketing assistance, retail product development, pricing, presentation skills, and mentoring to enable members to start or expand self-employment ventures.
Youth Eastside Services (YES) is a lifeline for kids and families coping with challenges such as emotional distress, substance abuse, sexual abuse, dating violence, gang activity, and discrimination. Each year, tens of thousands of kids and family members discover the inner strength to overcome emotional problems and painful crises as they learn to make the right decisions that lead them toward happy, healthy lives.
YES provides individual and family counseling; substance abuse education, prevention and treatment; community- and school-based violence prevention, family support, consultation and training. At YES, a family’s inability to pay for services never stands in the way of their finding the help they need.
The Salvation Army Northwest Division offers a wide range of social services in 34 towns and cities in Washington, Montana and northern Idaho. In addition, a large network, Service Extension, makes it possible for people in small communities to access Salvation Army emergency services anywhere in the three state region. The manner in which need for assistance is verified and the spirit in which help is given are at the heart of Army service. The compassion and understanding shown in an emergency may open the way for assistance with deep-seated problems and long-term deprivation. Needs may be revealed for counseling, placement, day care, rehabilitation, referral, or other help.
The Salvation Army is an integral part of each community in which it is located. Along with a network of other organizations and services, The Army exists to meet the needs of the people who live in that community. In more than 100-years of service around the world and here in the Pacific Northwest, The Salvation Army has earned the trust of the communities we are part of and strives to merit continued support.
To find out what is available and how to access services near you please click here.
Kindering Center is commited to provide superior, individualized, family-centered services for children who are disabled, medically fragile, or vulnerable because of abuse or neglect and to develop maximum potential, hope, and community understanding.
Prescreening checklists are provided on the Kindering website. These checklists are a quick, organized way of helping caregivers to recognize possible problem areas in a child’s vision, hearing and development. Further, the charts help caregivers recognize areas that deserve a second look by a professional who can give a complete developmental test. The chart may be used by anyone who works with young children, including parents, child care providers, case workers, and preschool staff.
Atlantic Street Center services seek to improve the lives of those whom they serve, to help children of all ages to flourish and to serve family needs. Each family is unique, but the following are some of the challenges that families who utilize the center’s services may be facing:
- Single parent household or children in foster care
- Household income at or below the federal poverty level
- Limited support system
- Children underachieving academically
- Neighborhood detachment and isolation
- Multicultural identity issues
Atlantic Street Services is one of just a few nonprofit organizations in the Seattle area that serves individuals at every stage of life, from toddlers to grandparents. Their resources focus on low-income children and youth of color in Seattle’s central and southeast neighborhoods. All services are free to participants. Costs are met through public and private grants and donations.
Hopelink provides social services in North and East King County that help families to become stable and self-sufficient. Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities. Hopelink emergency service centers are located in Bellevue, Kirkland/Northshore, Redmond, Shoreline and Sno-Valley. Services include:
- Adult Education
- Housing
- Food
- Financial Help
- Transportation & Metro DART
- Employment Program
- Energy Assistance
- Family Development
- Interpreter Services
Hopelink clients have access to all of Hopelink’s services and other community services through every Hopelink center or program. Upon entering a Hopelink program, clients go through an intake interview and are referred to all programs and services necessary to work toward self-sufficiency and end the cycle of homelessness.
Children in foster care live in an uncertain world. Stability and permanence, things that most children can take for granted, are not guaranteed to foster kids. They can be moved frequently, and with very little notice, leaving with just a plastic trash bag filled with their possessions. Kids get used to parting with favorite toys and stuffed animals, saying goodbye to neighbors and friends, and changing schools time and again. All too often, entering the foster care system means losing a sense of identity and purpose.
Since 1988, Treehouse has filled the gaps for kids in foster care, providing services that no other agency addresses: money for extra-curricular activities and summer camp, professional educational support services, resources to fully participate in the everyday activities of growing up, clothing and supplies to help them fit in at school.
Treehouse offers six core programs to give foster children a real childhood as well as hope for the future.
- Tutoring: helps bridge the educational achievement gap
- Educational Advocacy: works statewide to protect students’ educational rights
- College and Career Planning: gives kids support as they follow their dreams for the future
- Little Wishes: pays for activities and experiences as small as hair care and as big as drivers’ ed
- Summer Camp: sends kids on adventures
- Wearhouse: free store where kids shop for clothing, school supplies, toys, books and other essentials
Treehouse programs offer kids in foster care what all children so desperately need: a safe place to dream.
Big Brothers Big Sisters has been recognized as one of the most effective youth development programs in the United States. The program matches a volunteer Big Brother or Big Sisters with a child who could benefit from a one-to-one relationship with a caring adult.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound serves all children in a five-county service area, which covers King, Pierce, Kitsap, Jefferson, and Clallam Counties. Some of the matches get together to enjoy activities on their own throughout the Puget Sound, and others meet at specific schools or for fun filled agency-planned activities.
Bellevue, like other communities around the country, is feeling the effects of the national recession. To help residents find help, the city is offering information about helpful local recession resources. In addition, the city is facilitating opportunities for people to volunteer and help others.
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