Our recipients are small organizations serving "at risk"
children, teenagers, and adults primarily in the Puget Sound and
Long Beach areas of western Washington.
If your organization would like to be considered for participation,
please contact us.
Here are some of the many that have received quilts since 1993.
Arbor House: Provides transitional housing for
young mothers and their children.
Bethlehem House: Provides emergency and transitional
housing, and supportive services to homeless families with children
in order to help them become independent and self-sufficient.
Catholic Community Services - Benedict House: Works with the homeless
men in the Bremerton community trying to get them to where they
can maintain their own permanent housing.
Catherine Booth House: Provides temporary housing
for women and children fleeing abusive situations.
Cocoon House: Serves homeless and abused teens
in Snohomish County. Two residential sites serve a maximum of 28
teens in need of temporary or long term shelter.
DAWN: Provides shelter for twenty one to twenty
four women and children who have been victims of domestic violence
and have had to flee their homes in order to be safe.
Eastside Domestic Violence: Provides assistance
to victims of domestic violence
ElderHealth Northwest: Provides health and human
services to low income, chronically ill elders. Provides care in
a community setting that helps to alleviate social isolation, and
also daycare to enable elders to remain living at home.
Everett Gospel Mission Women's Refuge: Provides
counseling and aid to women and children in crisis.
Friends of Youth: Provides residential services
and emergency and transitional shelter for homeless and runaway
youth.
Habitat for Humanity International: Make it possible
for low-income residents to be able to purchase simple decent affordable
homes.
Housing Hope: Emergency shelter and transitional
housing for homeless families.
Jubilee Women's Center: Founded in 1983, Jubilee
Womens Center is a transitional housing program in Seattle
for women who are homeless or at risk for becoming homeless. Their
mission is to help women make a successful transition to permanent
housing, sustainable employment, and independent living.
Oxford House: Provides housing for women in recovery
from drugs and alcohol.
Pathways for Women: Crisis intervention for homeless
single mothers and their children.
Pediatric Interim Care Center (PICC): Provides
24 hour medically supervised care for drug-affected, and physically
and mentally disabled infants.
Salvation Army: Emergency services to families
and individuals in need.
Sound Institute - Kitsap CRC: Provides residential
services to youth who are in crisis with their families. They can
stay up to approximately 90 days.
Source Child Center: Provides residential treatment,
as well as foster care, for intellectually impaired and emotionally
troubled children ages 7 - 18.
St. Joseph's Baby Center: Distributes donated
goods, food and clothing and bedding items, to mothers of infants
and young children, primarily welfare mothers and families who have
nothing.
St. Vincent de Paul Shelter: Temporary housing
for single women & children. They can stay up to 90 days while
seeking their own housing.
Teen Hope: Youth service organization providing
shelter to teenagers who need overnight accommodations because of
difficult circumstances at home.
YWCA ALIVE Bainbridge Island/North Kitsap (BI/NK) Domestic
Violence Program: Provides services for North Kitsap area
families affected by domestic violence, including to providing transitional
housing.
YWCA Opportunity Place: 145 safe, affordable housing
units to help low-income and formerly homeless persons maintain
their stability and self-sufficiency efforts.