Community Resources

Shares resources for mental health, services to file civil rights complaints, and explains how to recognize Asian discrimination.


API Chaya

(877) 922-4292

Offers helpline and safety planning, counseling, and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual violence, human trafficking, and domestic violence from Asian communities


Provides aging services for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) elders, mental health care, citizenship and immigration assistance, and child and youth development for AAPI.


It is a community where Asian American and Pacific Islander women and girls can fight for their rights and justice.


Provides updates on research of Asian American psychology and mental health and connects to AAPI LGBTQ resources


Connects to resources for AAPI community, such as reporting discrimination, abortion and health care, immigration and naturalization, and LGBTQ+ support.

BC Early Learning Center

(425) 564-2240

Offers child care programs for children ranging in ages three months to six years.

Offers clothing bank and emergency food cupboards from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm every Wednesday.


Dress for Success 

(206) 461-4472

Provides programs to women for employment success like guidance in choosing an interview outfit, employment retention, and job search.


Issaquah Food Bank

(425) 392-4123

Gives food bank service from 1:00 – 7:00 pm, Monday -Thursday, clothing bank, and referrals to other resources.


Working Wardrobe (YWCA)

Redmond: (425) 556-1354

Everett: (425) 258-2766

Offers free business-appropriate attire to women experiencing homelessness for interviews or new jobs.

LifeWire

Main: (425) 746-1940

Toll Free: (800) 827-8840

Supports adults, children, and youth impacted by domestic violence build safer and healthier lives by offering professional support resources, such as safe housing and advocacy.


Mental Health America

Main: (703) 684-7722

Toll Free: (800) 969-6642 

Publishes articles, offers education and outreach, public policy, and peer advocacy about mental health.


National Alliance on Mental Illness

Main: (703) 524-7600

Help Line: (800) 950-6264

Provides mental health education programs, support groups, advocacy, and events for mental illness awareness.


Sound Health

Main: (206) 302-2300

Crisis Line: (877) 435-7054

Offers counseling, addiction treatment, telehealth, programs, and more services

Arc of King County

(206) 364-6337

Offers information and family support, living services, representative payee for individuals needing financial management assistance, homelessness prevention, and advocacy for people with developmental disabilities.


Disability Empowerment Center

Main: (425) 558-0993

Toll Free: (866) 545-7055

Provides referrals, utility assistance, job searching, transportation, healthcare, and programs for adults, exploration and plan for life support for teens and young adults, and programs for parents and seniors with a disability.

Goodwill Job Training

(206) 329-1000

Provides quality, effective employment training and basic education, and connect people with the jobs, services and skills they need.


Provides potential funding for school-related expenses, education planning, advising, and training to parents receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).


Worksource

(425) 861-3700

Helps with job search and finds the right training and career for you.


Offers economic advancement programs that help individuals attain life and job skills through training, education, computer classes, internships, job placement, and career development centers.

Serves shelter and homeless, housing, seniors and in-home care, mental health, and addiction recovery services.


Offers Aged, Blind or Disabled Cash Assistance Program, DSHS Emergency Programs, Housing and Essential needs, Medical Assistance, and more financial assistance.


Provides food assistance, employment services, financial assistance, housing, energy assistance, and other programs.


Overlake Christian Church

(425) 702-0303

Offers financial assistance to members and attendees of Overlake Christian Church to help cover rent or mortgage, car repairs for people living in vehicles, and utilities.


Solid Ground

(800) 621-4636

Provides education, nutrition, health care, transportation, counseling and housing programs to prevent eviction, foreclosure and homelessness.


Jewish Family Service

(206) 861-8796

Offers counseling and addiction, food bank, domestic violence support, and financial support.


Salvation Army

(425) 452-7300

Gives disaster relief, rehabilitation, LGBTQ+ support, job training, homeless shelters, rent, mortgage and utility assistance, and more.

DSHS Food Stamps

(877) 501-2233

Helps people with low incomes make ends meet by providing monthly benefits to buy food.


Emergency Feeding Program

(425) 277-0300

Has four food programs: drive-thru pre-packed boxes, shop-the-dock, food distribution, and homeless program

Provides information on unemployment, paid leave, jobs and training, and unemployment taxes.


Administers retirement, disability, survivor, and family benefits, enrolls individuals in Medicare, and issues Social Security Numbers.


Offers food, cash and medical services, housing assistance, child support, vocational rehabilitation, adult care, mental health & addiction, and disability support.

Compass Service

(206) 474-1000

Provides affordable housing, emergency, family, and veterans programs.


Provides year-round shelter, case management, life skills, mental health therapy, and employment and addiction support.


Reconnects homeless people with supportive family and help them make one more step toward a safe and productive life.


Offers shelter to homeless.


Urban Rest Stop

(206) 443-9935

Hygiene facility where unsheltered individuals and families can access running water and utilize restroom, shower and laundry services at no cost.

Connects to affordable rentals or new affordable constructions, and provides funding for the development of affordable housing.


Fair Housing

(206) 220-5101

You can file a complaint for unfair housing, sexual harassment in housing, and housing discrimination to LGBTQ.


Habitat for Humanity

(425) 869-6007

Helps to build homes for hardworking families, fix critical repairs that brings safety issues, reuse furniture, and advocate for affordable housing.


Provides rental assistance, local public housing, fair housing complaints, and rent relief resources.


Offers rental housing and rental programs for low-income families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities to have affordable housing


Provides a safe and secure 24-hour living environment for women and children in crisis offering counseling, educational development, and more.


Seattle Housing Authority

(206) 615-3300

Provides information and application on low-income public housing rentals for individuals or families. No need to be residents of Seattle, but housing options will be within Seattle city limits.


Provides education, nutrition, health care, transportation, counseling and housing programs to prevent eviction, foreclosure and homelessness


Tenants Union of WA

(206) 723-0500

Provides education and information and referrals regarding landlord/tenant laws


Offers many programs focused on advocacy & civic engagement, education, housing, public health and workforce development.


YWCA

(206) 461-4888

Provides a variety of emergency, temporary and permanent housing programs for women and families.

Provides economic wellbeing, education, empowerment, health, safety, women & girls, and refugee services to people affected by conflicts and disasters.


Offers Work or Tourist Visa attorney assistance.


Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

Main: (206) 587-4009

Toll Free: (800) 445-5771

Assists with family visa applications, represents family members facing deportation, and offers legal assistance to immigrants applying for immigration protection.

Columbia Legal Services

Main: (206) 464-1122

Toll Free: (800) 542-0794 

Provides legal assistance to low-income individuals.


Eastside Legal Assistance Program

English: (425) 747-7274 Spanish: (425) 620-2778

Offers free legal programs that include civil legal aid services, regular legal clinics, and community education.


King County Bar Association

Main: (206) 267-7100

Lawyer referral:

(206) 267-7010

Provides free legal assistance for low income King County residents and Lawyer referral service.


Northwest Justice Project

Main: (206) 464-1519 Hotline: (888) 201-1014

Provides free civil legal assistance and representation to low-income individuals and operates CLEAR, a legal hotline for low income people.


Unemployment Law Project

(206) 441-9178

Gives free legal assistance to people who have been turned-down, denied unemployment benefits, or are looking for unemployment benefits.

Offers locations for medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, and preventive health services.


Information about dental health plans in Washington state.


Eastgate Public Health

(206) 477-8000

Provides primary health, dental, environmental health, and nutrition services to low-income individuals and families.


HealthPoint

(425) 277-1311

Provides medical, dental, and behavioral health care, on-site pharmacies,  nutrition counseling, acupuncture, substance use disorder treatment, and  insurance assistance regardless of inability to pay.


Washington Women in Need

(425) 451-8838

Provides scholarships for higher education and grants to cover health care premium payments and prescription costs to women.

Bus & ORCA Card

(425) 564-2720

Information about Orca card, a Metro, Sound and Sounder transit pass for Bellevue College student discount.


Connects you with a driver at the tap of a button. Available on iPhone and Android.


Short-term car rental; ages 25 and older; BC student discount

Last Updated January 4, 2023