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Program: Babysitter's Training for Low Income Students
Agency: American Red Cross Inland NW Chapter
Provides skills and knowledge in basic caregiving and emergency first aid to babysitters and older siblings.
Program: Learning Center at Anna Ogden Hall
Agency: Anna Ogden Hall/Union Gospel Mission
Provides essential education and computer skills to women seeking to return to society as contributing members.
Program: Mentoring Daughters of Prisoners
Agency: Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Spokane
Offers one-to-one match-ups between trained mentors and daughters of prisoners to reduce the risk of academic and social failure through support and shared activities.
Program: Power Hour
Agency: Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County
Comprehensive homework assistance and tutoring program helps club members by providing support, resources and guidance necessary to achieve academic success.
Program: St. Anne's Children and Family Center
Agency: Catholic Charities of Spokane
Provides high quality child care to low-income, working families in the community.
Program: St. Margaret's Shelter
Agency: Catholic Charities of Spokane
Life skills classes and case management targeted for families with drug addictions and homeless families living in emergency shelter or transitional housing.
Program: Children's Waiting Room
Agency: Children's Home Society of Washington
On-site child care and social services referrals at a court based drop in center located on the Spokane County Courthouse campus.
Program: Women's Educational Assistance Program
Agency: Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation - Institute for Extended Learning
Scholarship assistance to low-income female students to remove barriers to accessing basic education and training due to high costs of transportation and child care.
Program: Campus Kids & Affiliated Mentoring Programs
Agency: Gonzaga University
College students mentor at-risk youth in an after-school college campus environment to improve academic performance, make healthy choices and discourage drop-out.
Program: Women in Need
Agency: Holy Family Foundation
Emergency funds for female patients without financial, family or social means to help themselves. Offers medication, safe places to stay, and in-home care.
Program: Out-of-School-Time Programs
Agency: Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center
Provides school readiness programs and prevention of drop-out, aggressive behavior and drug abuse by teaching social and emotional skills.
Program: Foster Family Program
Agency: Olive Crest Homes for Abused & Neglected Children
Recruits, trains and licenses foster families and equips them with the tools and knowledge to provide loving, safe, healing homes for children victimized by abuse.
Program: Sally's House
Agency: Salvation Army Spokane Corps
Enhancement of educational opportunities, developmental and physical needs and socialization in a safe house setting for children victimized by abuse, neglect, parental drug use and other criminal activities.
Program: Personal Care Kits
Agency: Spokane Valley Partners
Assembly and distribution of personal care kits for low income women.
Program: Kids Cafe
Agency: Second Harvest Inland Northwest
Provides healthy food at no charge to hundreds of disadvantaged children living in the West Central neighborhood. Also provides nutrition education.
Program/Agency: Teen Closet
The goal of increased academic success and self-confidence among foster teens is reinforced by providing two complete outfits of trendy, name brand, quality clothing at no cost.
Program: New Leaf Bakery Café Training Program
Agency: Transitional Programs for Women
24-week program for homeless and low-income women struggling with barriers to mainstream employment. Provides an opportunity to gain marketable skills and build solid work experience.
Program: Emergency Respite Care Program
Agency: Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery
Provides free, 24-hour shelter and care for children in situations that put them at increased risk of child abuse or neglect.
Program: Parents Advancing Through Higher Education (PATHE)
Agency: Volunteers of America
Assisting single, low-income mothers of seriously emotionally disturbed children to overcome typical barriers to higher education and find a gateway out of poverty.
Program: Bringing Homeless Kids to Camp Reed
Agency: YMCA of the Inland Northwest
Provides support to send homeless children to YMCA Camp Reed over the summer.
Program: ADVP Transitional Housing Program
Agency: YWCA of Spokane
Provides comprehensive, victim-centered transitional housing services to domestic violence victims and their children who are fleeing a situation of domestic violence.
Program: Training and Education
Agency: Youth Suicide Prevention
Teaches social service professionals, educators, parents and youths the skills to recognize youth depression and suicide and how to intervene.
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