Community Resources
COVID-19 Support Resource Websites
Listed are many of the Community Based Organizations that are available as resources to help qualified LWTech students.
Community Resource Links by Category
- IKRON Behavioral Health Services: Assessment and counseling services.
- LWTech Counseling: Currently enrolled students can meet with the LWTech Counselor Carol Van Buren.
- NAMI Eastside: Community based non-profit committed to improving the quality of life for those impacted by mental illness through advocacy, education, and support.
- SOUND: Provides comprehensive outpatient counseling and case management for King County residents experiencing mental health issues .
- DAWN: DAWN supports, empowers, and shelters survivors of domestic abuse in South King County.
- Domestic Violence Services: Program in Snohomish County that provides an emergency shelter and comprehensive range of services to all victims of domestic abuse.
- LifeWire: Helps adults, children, and youth who have been impacted by domestic violence to build safer, healthier homes by offering support, resources, and professional services.
(Please see program pages for access to food resources near you.)
- Community Health Access Program (CHAP): CHAP is a telephone assistance program serving King County residents by connecting them to health insurance, healthcare care services, and other resources. CHAP Services are free and confidential.
- King County Public Health Centers: Public health services
- Attain Housing: Housing support programs and case management for folks in East King County.
- Catholic Community Services: Helps facilitate Coordinated Entry for families and individuals in Snohomish County.
- Compass Housing Alliance: Compass Housing Alliance develops and provides essential services and affordable housing for homeless and low-income people in the greater Puget Sound region.
- Congregation for the Homeless: Housing services for men including emergency shelter, day center, and paths to permanent housing.
- Friends of Youth: Residential services and homeless youth services for people ages 15-24
- Hopelink Housing Program: For families experiencing homelessness, transitional and long-term housing as well as emergency family shelter may be available through Hopelink.
- Mama’s Hands House of Hope: Provides a safe and secure 24 hour living environment for women and children in crisis in Bellevue.
- Mary’s Place: Provides shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness, from 5 emergency shelters to providing support for long term housing.
- Safe Parking Program in Kirkland: Offers a safe place to park overnight for those living in their vehicles with access to toilets, wifi and a refrigerator.
- Solid Ground: Weather you have lost your home and need shelter – of need support to stay in your current home – Solid Ground can connect you with information, resources, and referrals to support your housing stability.
- The Sophia Way: Committed to ending homelessness for women in King County. Programs range from emergency shelter to support finding transitional, permanent, and supportive housing.
- YWCA Housing: The YWCA works to help women and families find and maintain safe, stable housing.
- Eastside Legal Assistance Program: High-quality, no-cost legal aid to low-income residents of East, Northeast, and Southeast King County.
- Solid Ground: Legal help accessing public benefits like cash, food, medical and/or childcare benefits.
- United Way King County: Free tax assistance offered.
- Hopelink - Transportation
- ORCA Lift: Reduced transit fare program that can help those that income-qualify get more out of public transportation.
- Solid Ground Transportation
(Please see individual program pages for directions on applying.)
