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What's New? |
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Eastside Volunteer Fair was a Success |
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Approximately 50 nonprofit agencies shared volunteer opportunities for individuals, families and civic groups during the May 2nd event at Crossroads Bellevue. Learn how to "Weave Yourself into the Community." |
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Campus Effort for the Homeless |
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Homeless advocate Joe Ingram, a long time helper for those seeking to get off the streets, is now stationed at Family Resource Center three days a week. Read More... |
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A Year in Pictures |
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In 2008, the troubled economy impacted the campus even before the major news stories discussed stocks and banks. By end of summer, the numbers of people looking for help had grown significantly. Read More... |
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Strengthening Families,
Building Community |
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Family Resource Center raised nearly $10,000 at its after work event. Thank you, friends of Family Resource Center! Learn More... |
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Paula Matthysee Receives AEA Staff Award |
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Family Resource Center Operations Manager, Paula Matthysee, received the staff award for Outstanding Contribution to Human Services at the Alliance of Eastside Agencies Awards Luncheon in June. 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.
Program Coordinator - Chor Phen Ng Phone: 425-289-8608. |
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Rebuilding our campus to better serve all families |
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You'll find Family Resource Center's offices front and center on our three building campus (off the lobby in the A-building) thanks to a 2007 project to better meet the special needs of all who visit looking for help. Increasingly, that includes the homeless, domestic violence survivors and immigrants. We are grateful for support from Microsoft Corporation, Archibald Charitable Foundation, The Foster Foundation, Seattle Foundation, and the Holt Family Advised Fund at Seattle Foundation for support of our renovations. |
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Going green, and putting more dollars to work for critical programs. |
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Family Resource Center replaced all of its interior lights last year saving our agencies at least $7,500 each year. Saving resources and doing right by the environment? Priceless. |
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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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