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Family Resource Center is an innovative nonprofit agency that works collaboratively to lower barriers to services so families throughout East King County are always able to find the help they need, when they need it. |
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Creating access for 20 years! |
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 Family Resource Center incorporated in 1990 and began its journey as an innovative collaboration designed to create access to human services. Doors opened in 1991 with six agencies. Now with 18 providers and more than 500,000 people already helped, we’re celebrating a great idea that’s grown!
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Family Resource Center’s 13th Annual Eastside Volunteer Fair a Success! |
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Many agencies reported nearly twice as many volunteer prospects signing up to learn more this year than last year. “This is the best year yet,” said one participant. Nearly fifty nonprofit organizations shared information about their programs and services at a fun event that included music and dance from around the world. Learn more. |
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Accessing Public Benefits: Help is Here |
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How do you find out if you qualify for help with medical, food, child care and other benefits? If you qualify, how do you get started? Help has arrived at Family Resource Center thanks to Public Health Seattle & King County. On Thursday from 10 am to 2 pm in Building A’s lobby, Public Health Access and Outreach staff now link eligible clients to publicly-sponsored health, food and other benefits, all with one stop. Learn more…Learn more. |
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Interest in Issaquah Project is High |
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A survey conducted by Family Resource Center to determine the interest of human service agencies in participating in a potential Issaquah-area human services campus showed significant interest in the project. Of 25 respondents, 14 agencies reported they were interested, while another 6 expressed potential future interest.
Funded by the City of Issaquah and conducted by Family Resource Center, the survey is the first phase of a broad feasibility study, now underway, that will address agency property criteria, community needs, and options for property development and governance. Learn More... |
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Help grows for those with limited English |
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The Eastside Cultural Navigator Program offers free assistance to immigrants and refugees who have limited English language background and helps bridge cultural barriers that might keep families from accessing needed services.
Cultural Navigator office hours at Family Resource Center:
Spanish - Alejandra (Ale) Villarreal - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 10am-5 Phone: 425-289-8608. ecnpspanish@cisc-seattle.org
Chinese - Gilbert Leow. Wednesdays 10am-6pm. Phone: 425-647-0913.
Languages of India - Mondays 2-4pm. Pushpakant Patel Tuesdays 10-2pm. Uma Sehgal Phone: 206-838-8157.
Russian and Ukrainian - Irina Chermeshnyuk. Wednesdays 10am-5pm. Phone: 425-502-0883.
Program Coordinator - Chor Phen Ng Phone: 425-289-8608. |
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What leaders say about the Center |
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"We often suggest to organizations in other areas that they look to Family Resource Center as a role model for providing services. Family Resource Center is unique."
Bonnie McEachern, D.V. & Ida McEachern Charitable Trust
"The Eastside community has the ability to tap into numerous human services through Family Resource Center. The Center does a great job of increasing access to programs and building the capacity of agencies to better serve the community."
Caren Skube, The Boeing Company
"Capacity building? Isn't Family Resource Center all about capacity building? "
Mary Pigott, Satterberg Foundation
"The Family Resource Center embodies a vision of human service collaboration and co-location that is a model for other agencies and other areas where residents may face the same barriers that families on the Eastside faced (before FRC opened) in 1991."
King County Executive Gary Locke (1995) |
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About Family Resource Center |
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Family Resource Center is an innovative nonprofit agency that fosters partnerships, increases access to health and human services and builds the capacity of agencies to serve the community. Centrally located for Eastsiders, the Center's "one-stop" campus was designed to relieve the difficulties of getting to community services. The Center houses wide-ranging and complementary services to meet the multiple needs of clients, overcome transportation barriers and provide the community with a large service mix. Eighteen independent agencies are current members of the Family Resource Center Association.
Health and human service organizations lease space (at below-market rates) on the three-building Family Resource Center campus, where they benefit from opportunities to collaborate, share resources and projects (such as volunteer recruitment efforts and educational programs) and participate in building a unique human services hub. |
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