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Family Resource Center Quilt Raffle |
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Purchase a $5 chance to win one of two beautiful quilts. Learn More...
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Nonprofit Agencies: Sign up now for Eastside Volunteer Fair |
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Family Resource Center will host its 11th annual Eastside Volunteer Fair on Saturday, May 3, 2008, from 11 am to 4 pm at Crossroads Bellevue. Nonprofit organizations are invited to participate with priority given to health, housing, and human services organizations serving the Eastside. Approximately 50 organizations are expected. Contact Paula Matthysse for more information (425-869-1174; paulam@familyresourcecenter.org Learn More...
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Help grows for those with limited English |
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:
Russian Navigator Irina Safyan is at the Center Thursdays from 10 am to 2 pm. (425-289-8609, IrinaS@ccsww.org )
Chinese Navigator Gilbert Leow is at the Center on Wednesdays from 10 am to 6 pm (425-647-0913, gilbertl@cisc-seattle.org)
East Indian Navigator Pushpakant Patel is available at (206-838-8157).
For more information on the program, contact Program Coordinator Chor Phen Ng at 425-289-8607 or phenn@cisc-seattle.org.
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Rebuilding our campus to better serve all families |
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 recent 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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