Family Resource Center, the Eastside's human services campus, fosters partnerships and increases access to community services.

A UNIQUE COMMUNITY ASSET

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. The Center is a rare undertaking, all the more unusual for its independence from government operating funding and its organization as a nonprofit agency.

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.     

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 participate in building a unique human services hub.
 
Family Resource Center builds the capacity of agencies to better serve the community by keeping lease rates low, sharing resources and developing other strategies to build a stronger Eastside human services infrastructure. For example, the Center hosts the yearly Eastside Volunteer Fair and sponsors the Eastside Human Services Alliance.

A NATIONAL MODEL

The Center's "one stop" campus is a model for others (locally and nationally) who seek to promote partnerships at a centralized service hub. Continually developing, Family Resource Center is one of a small number of centers nationally which have been formed to save dollars, increase access to services, and improve communication.

A NONPROFIT LEADER

Family Resource Center is a private, nonprofit corporation registered with the State of Washington, with a 501(c)3 tax status.  A volunteer board of community leaders directs the Center. Operating funds derive primarily from the nonprofit leases on the building (and not from United Way or government sources).

AN INNOVATIVE PROJECT

During the late 1980's, a number of nonprofit leaders discussed the need for a low-cost, centralized home for services. In 1990, four agencies (Friends of Youth, Hopelink, Youth Eastside Services, and Eastside Human Services Council, later replaced by Community Health Centers of King County) formed a separate nonprofit agency to achieve this and in 1991 loaned thousands of dollars to the newly-formed Family Resource Center to purchase a three-building complex in Redmond.  Since that time, a high level of community support has gone into developing the founding vision. Almost two million dollars has been donated from private foundations, corporations, and local and federal government to renovate the campus buildings and launch the Center's innovative project.

A MAJOR EASTSIDE RESOURCE

Over 50,000 residents from throughout East King County (and many more statewide) directly use the onsite services each year. More than twenty independent health and human service agencies offer a hundred programs from the Family Resource Center campus, including medical and dental care, emergency food and shelter, job skills training, youth activities, low-income housing assistance, mental health counseling, education and support services, therapeutic programs for at-risk youth, information and support for the disabled, volunteer placement and much more.
 

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