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Family Resource Center is an innovative nonprofit agency that works collaboratively to lower barriers to services so families throughout East King County are always able to find the help they need, when they need it. |
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Two join Family Resource Center Board of Directors |
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Family Resource Center is proud to announce the addition of two community leaders to its Board of Directors. Former Issaquah City Council Member John Rittenhouse of Issaquah and retired Issaquah School District administrator Margaret Moore of Bellevue were elected to the Board at the Center’s recent annual meeting.
Rittenhouse and Moore have co-chaired a volunteer-led effort to create a human services campus in Issaquah akin to that of Family Resource Center, which has partnered in that effort. The Center will soon survey agencies regarding an interest in the Issaquah campus in advance of overseeing a City of Issaquah-funded feasibility study for the project.
The Center serves over 40,000 from throughout the Eastside in partnership with 18 on-campus agencies. Read more. |
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Services for homeless youth added to campus |
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Youth and those at risk of homelessness will find new and significant help on the Family Resource Center campus with the addition of Friends of Youth Outreach Program. Read more. |
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Russian "navigator" joins Center as program grows |
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The Eastside Cultural Navigator Program moved from the Center’s administrative offices into it’s own space (A-7) last month. The relocation is just one of the signals that this pilot program is growing and succeeding. The program offers free, confidential assistance to individuals with limited English language skills. Read more. |
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Help grows for those with limited English |
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The Eastside Cultural Navigator Program offers free assistance to immigrants and refugees who have limited English language background and helps bridge cultural barriers that might keep families from accessing needed services.
Cultural Navigator office hours at Family Resource Center:
Spanish - Alejandra (Ale) Villarreal - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 10am-5 Phone: 425-289-8608. ecnpspanish@cisc-seattle.org
Chinese - Gilbert Leow. Wednesdays 10am-6pm. Phone: 425-647-0913.
Languages of India - Mondays 2-4pm. Pushpakant Patel Tuesdays 10-2pm. Uma Sehgal Phone: 206-838-8157.
Russian and Ukrainian - Irina Chermeshnyuk. Wednesdays 10am-5pm. Phone: 425-502-0883.
Program Coordinator - Chor Phen Ng Phone: 425-289-8608. |
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Campus Effort for the Homeless |
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Homeless advocate Joe Ingram, a long time helper for those seeking to get off the streets, is now stationed at Family Resource Center three days a week. Read More... |
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Collaborator Fall 2009 |
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The Family Resource Center produces a newsletter for the public. Read the latest newsletter. |
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A Year in Pictures |
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In 2008, the troubled economy impacted the campus even before the major news stories discussed stocks and banks. By end of summer, the numbers of people looking for help had grown significantly. Read More... |
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What leaders say about the Center |
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"We often suggest to organizations in other areas that they look to Family Resource Center as a role model for providing services. Family Resource Center is unique."
Bonnie McEachern, D.V. & Ida McEachern Charitable Trust
"The Eastside community has the ability to tap into numerous human services through Family Resource Center. The Center does a great job of increasing access to programs and building the capacity of agencies to better serve the community."
Caren Skube, The Boeing Company
"Capacity building? Isn't Family Resource Center all about capacity building? "
Mary Pigott, Satterberg Foundation
"The Family Resource Center embodies a vision of human service collaboration and co-location that is a model for other agencies and other areas where residents may face the same barriers that families on the Eastside faced (before FRC opened) in 1991."
King County Executive Gary Locke (1995) |
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About Family Resource Center |
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Family Resource Center is an innovative nonprofit agency that fosters partnerships, increases access to health and human services and builds the capacity of agencies to serve the community. Centrally located for Eastsiders, the Center's "one-stop" campus was designed to relieve the difficulties of getting to community services. The Center houses wide-ranging and complementary services to meet the multiple needs of clients, overcome transportation barriers and provide the community with a large service mix. Eighteen independent agencies are current members of the Family Resource Center Association.
Health and human service organizations lease space (at below-market rates) on the three-building Family Resource Center campus, where they benefit from opportunities to collaborate, share resources and projects (such as volunteer recruitment efforts and educational programs) and participate in building a unique human services hub. |
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