Non-profit organization for helping children and families
Since 1999 Mary’s Place Seattle has been providing wide-range services and shelter, to support women, children and families. Their mission is to change the course of life to those headed towards homelessness.
MARY’S PLACE BELIEVES THAT NO ONE’S CHILD SHOULD SLEEP OUTSIDE.
Spread out across five emergency family shelters in King County, this non-profit is making sure that families are kept together, have a roof above their heads, and are safe when they have no place to go… Mary’s Place is also making sure to provide resources, community, employment services, and hope to those who need the most. Their main focus is working with families to help address obstacles, and support parents to create family stability, safe housing, and preparation for employment. Mary’s place is also highly concentrated on connecting children with schools and helping them partaking in fun and educational activates.
With a lead of their health service director, part-time nurses and various health professional volunteers, Mary’s place provides evaluation and treatment for more than 1000 medical conditions, every year.
Baby’s best start
Provides mothers and their newborn babies to connect and recuperate, after giving birth in private and nourishing setting.
Popsicle place
Allows ease and care for medically delicate children, from whom many are recovering from dialysis, chemo and other treatments.
Housing locators
Mary’s Place is working with property managers and landlords, to create relationships and find affordable housing for those in need.Â
Outreach team
Mary’s Place mobile teams are meeting with families living outside in tents, or their cars to distinguish a unique 30-day housing resolution and approach them with funding for steady housing.
Stability specialist
Provides families in their new homes with local resources and connections.
Incentive program
In this program, each adult from Mary’s guests can participate in weekly three hours of chores, which provides them with 1500 points ($15 per hour). They can use that to purchase groceries and clothing at Mary’s Place on-site store.
Frond door
Provides families leaving outside with housing relocation services, dining, diapers and other hygienic items.
Empower U internship program
This program empowers folks to achieve financial stability, through tailored pathways to achieve and maintain education and employment. Mary’s Place offers paid internships, where individuals are getting knowledge and experience to reach their further career goals.Â
Employment services
Mary’s Place Employment Services helps women and families with job skills, linking with jobs and training resources, referrals to educational programs and much more.Â
Employer engagement
This program gives direct access to full or part time employment. Mary’s Place is partnered with 35+ companies, who welcome people to apply, share job openings and provide training for those interested furthering their careers.
Food and nutrition
Mary’s Place provides more than 1000 meals per day in a form of breakfast, lunch and hot dinner. They are also supporters of local markets and farmers.
Food recovery
Provides 300,000 meals per year across all their shelter locations.
If you would like to become part of Mary’s Place family of volunteers and providers, and help those who need us the most, please consider few of the ways of doing so.
Because – No ‘one child should sleep outside
