February 2012

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URS Challenge Grant
Volunteer Recognition
Advocate in Olympia
2012 One Night Count
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Urban Rest Stop Challenge Grant

 

 

 

The Urban Rest Stop  (URS) has been awarded a $10,000 matching grant from the Lucky Seven Foundation, and we need your help to make every dollar count! If we can raise $10,000 in donations for the URS in 2012, Lucky Seven will match that with an additional $10,000.

 

If you have never donated to the URS, or haven't donated in the past three years, please consider making a donation today. Your dollar will go twice as far in bringing free hygiene services to homeless men, women, and children.

 

If you did donate to the URS in 2011 (thank you!), please consider doubling your donation for 2012. Lucky Seven will also match current donors who give twice as much in 2012 as they did in 2011.

 

For more information, please contact Aaron Long at (206) 957-8069, or click here to send an email.
Volunteer Recognition

 

This month LIHI would like to acknowledge the volunteers bringing Path with Art programming to the Frye Apartments!

 

 

 

LIHI partnered with Path with Art this winter to provide Frye Apartments residents with opportunities to express themselves through a variety of creative outlets. In December, Teaching Artist Lana Sundberg led a ceramics class for more than 18 residents. This month Ellen Graham is engaging over a dozen participants in acting and movement.

 

 

 

Path with Art takes the excellent work of its social service partners a step further by embracing the concept that food and housing are not enough for adults to regain and maintain stability. Their programs encourage social and emotional development, civic engagement, and the personal growth necessary to help participants get on the path to a more stable life.

 

The Frye Apartments provide 234 units of housing, supporting a majority of people who were previously homeless.

 

For more information about volunteering with LIHI, please contact Ania Beszterda-Alyson, LIHI's Community Engagement and Advocacy Manager. Click here to send her a message.
Call to Action - We need you in Olympia on February 22!

 

 

 

Are you one of the many people who missed out on the January 20th Advocacy Day in Olympia because of the snow? Here's your chance to make up for it! Join the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance (WLIHA) and the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness (SKCCH) for "Housing and Homelessness Advocates in Olympia" on February 22nd. This is a critical time for our advocacy efforts, and your voice is needed to make sure that our legislators prioritize housing and homelessness!

 

Click here to register and find out more information.

 

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One Night Count finds more than 2,500 people on the streets in King County

 

On January 27, over 800 volunteers walked through the streets of King County in the early hours of the morning. Together they counted 2,594 men, women, and children without shelter. The One Night Count (ONC) is one of the best established and largest point-in-time counts in the United States. It is organized by the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness (SKCCH), with help from Operation Nightwatch, the Committee to End Homelessness, and dozens of local nonprofits.

 

Notable participants in the 2012 ONC included First Gentleman Mike Gregoire, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, and Seattle City Council President Sally Clark. Dr. Robert A. Petzel, the Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs helped count in Shoreline. Anthony Love, the Deputy Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, came all the way from Washington, D.C. to participate.

 

The LIHI team was lead by Ania Beszterda-Alyson, LIHI's Community Engagement and Advocacy Manager, and included LIHI staff and friends. The team counted in Ballard, and then joined the rest of the volunteers for a hot breakfast at the Compass Center.

 

SKCCH will release a full ONC report in the spring, which will include data from shelters and transitional housing.

 

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