January 2013

In This Issue:
New Year's Resolutions
Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day
Garfield Key Club Prepares Welcome

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New Year's Resolutions 

 

Is giving back to the community on your New Year's resolutions list? Here are seven ways you can help LIHI end homelessness in 2013 while gaining invaluable experiences and making a real difference in the lives of our tenants and Urban Rest Stop patrons:  

Help LIHI residents go green!

 

LIHI is looking for volunteers who are interested in giving presentations or teaching classes on living green in an apartment. If you love saving water and electricity, recycling, and improving air quality, and want to teach others how to have a healthy, safe, green home, then you might be a great fit.

Become a One-on-One Computer Technology and Job Search Tutor

Formerly homeless and low-income residents in need call LIHI daily to access this critical volunteer resource! As a volunteer, you will help formerly homeless and low-income families and individuals become more self-sufficient by working with them to utilize computers and gain employment. You will meet with a resident once a week for 3 months at one of LIHI's computer labs or a nearby library and work on developing skills many of us take for granted: using electronic mail, performing job searches, creating and revising resumes, filling out online applications, etc. Time of day and location are flexible depending on resident and volunteer availability. 
 
  

Volunteer at LIHI's Urban Rest Stop, a hygiene center for people experiencing homelessness:

  • Barber

The Urban Rest Stop seeks a barber who would be willing to cut hair for our patrons after they have showered. We are very flexible about when a good time would be, but the ideal candidate would cut hair regularly on a certain day (every Friday, every other Tuesday, etc.).

  • General Helper

The Urban Rest Stop seeks individuals who will enthusiastically and respectfully engage with our patrons and help to maintain a clean, orderly, and dignified environment. This position is very open--it can mean signing up patrons for showers, mopping showers, performing intake surveys with patrons, general maintenance, and much more. The volunteer must have a passion and skill for interacting with those in difficult circumstances.

  • Tech Helper

The Urban Rest Stop seeks someone who can help with data entry, database reconciliation, or website development. Any technology wisdom would be greatly appreciated!

  • Run Your Own Sock or Hygiene Drive!

The Urban Rest Stop seeks motivated individuals to run sock or hygiene supply drives in schools, neighborhoods, community and faith centers, and workplaces. There are never enough socks or toothbrushes to give out!

Email [email protected] to learn more about any of our volunteer opportunities or download our Volunteer Application Form today!


 
And last but not least:  Join with other advocates in Olympia to lobby your legislators: see following article for details.

 

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2013 Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day
Monday, February 11

2013 Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day 

Are you passionate about ensuring that everyone in Washington has the opportunity to live in a safe, healthy, and affordable home? Do you want to unite with over 500 other advocates to help end homelessness in our state? 


Please join the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance and the Low Income Housing Institute on February 11 in Olympia for the annual Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day.
Click here to register today!

 

Can't make it to Olympia?  You can still be an advocate!  Click here to sign a pledge to call your legislator on February 11 and ask them to support the Housing Trust Fund.

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Garfield High School Students Prepare Special Welcome for Homeless Seniors Moving into Ernestine Anderson Place

  

On Saturday January 12th, 21 volunteers from the Garfield High School Key Club prepared a special welcome for homeless and low-income seniors who will be moving into 60 new apartments at Ernestine Anderson Place in February. While furnished, the apartments had lacked basic household supplies such as towels, dish soap, shower curtains, bedding, and kitchenware. LIHI purchased housewares for the units and Plymouth Church, Operation Nightwatch, and Runberg Architecture Group generously donated welcome baskets containing personal hygiene items and edible goodies. The Key Club worked hard throughout the day distributing the welcome baskets and setting up the apartments with the housewares so that the apartments would already feel like a home when new residents move in.

 

Located at 2010 South Jackson Street, Ernestine Anderson Place is named in honor of singer Ernestine Anderson. Ms. Anderson is a jazz and blues legend, longtime neighborhood resident, and Garfield High School alumna. The site on which Ernestine Anderson Place is being constructed was also the temporary location of the Jimi Hendrix house. Ernestine Anderson Place is located just a few blocks to the east of 12th and Jackson--once the center of a thriving jazz club scene.

 

Ernestine Anderson Place provides 60 units of affordable senior housing, including 45 apartments for homeless seniors. The building features studio and 1-bedroom units. The ground floor includes community space for residents, with an exercise room, a library with internet-enabled computers, and an outside patio garden area. LIHI partners with Sound Mental Health to provide case management for tenants in need of support services.

 

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