Agencies that benefit from the Fund For The Needy

	Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) ACRS provides an array of support and behavioral health services to Asian Pacific Islander populations. The agency also provides vital and unique community services in a multi-cultural, multilingual setting.
	Atlantic Street Center (ASC) With anger management, counseling and parenting classes, ASC helps transform the lives of many young people in need of support and direction.
	Big Brothers Big Sisters of King & Pierce Counties Big Brothers Big Sisters of King & Pierce Counties partners with actively involved community members to match caring adults with children, both of whom benefit from one-to-one mentoring programs.
	Childhaven Childhaven comes to the rescue of abused and neglected children with intervention, love and healing – and to the community's rescue as well, by changing human lives scarred by violence. It offers drug-affected babies and toddlers uninterrupted foster care and therapeutic day care
	Deaconess Children's Services Deaconess works with troubled families to prevent abuse and neglect. It assists the entire family through interactive child care, education, case management and goal setting. It also helps at-risk kids finish school while avoiding drugs and pregnancy.
	Family Services Family Services strengthens families by providing a variety of counseling-based services, which include child care and resources for homeless families, and education and treatment for batterers to end the cycle of domestic violence.
	Hopelink Since 1971, Hopelink has helped homeless and low income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities by operating food banks, an emergency shelter, transitional housing, counseling, child care, transportation and adult literacy training.
	Kindering Center Kindering Center is a birth-to-three early intervention program providing individualized, family-centered services for children who are disabled, medically fragile or vulnerable because of abuse or neglect.
	The Salvation Army With practical compassion, The Salvation Army helps in any way it can with basics — like housing, utilities, food and clothing — that get people back on their feet. The nonprofit also provides extras that brighten hearts, like holiday meals and toys.
	Senior Services of Seattle/King County Senior Services makes sure that the homebound elderly are not forgotten, or forced to choose between heat and food. Meals on Wheels provides necessary nutrition to those in need, delivered to the door with a smile.
	Treehouse Treehouse works to make the lives of foster children, who often feel lost and abandoned, as normal as possible. They provide essentials that travel with a baby-on-the-move as well as clothing and activities that help older children fit in with peers and develop a positive, unique sense of self.
	Youth Eastside Services Through counseling and community outreach, Youth Eastside Services helps young people and their families overcome drug and alcohol issues; prevent teen violence, pregnancy and suicide; and resolve family conflicts.

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