Homeless Resources

Compass Center
206-357-3100 Admin
206-357-3200 Mail/banking
206-357-3180 Hygiene
77 S. Washington, Seattle 98104

Family and Adult Service Center (FASC) Adult Day Center Program
206-357-3190
2013 Third Avenue, Seattle 98104

Drop-in center 11 am - 7 pm daily. Pick up mail, pick up phone messages. Lunch served daily 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Some dinners served.

Laundry & showers available to both men & women 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Towels & soap provided. Sign-up that morning for a time slot for either service or both, with showers and laundry facilities.

Service requires registration.
Verified 2/08

Family and Adult Service Center (FASC) Family Program
206-441-8405
2013 Third Avenue, Seattle 98104

Emergency shelter for families with children under 18. Resource for diapers, children's clothing, etc. For men to stay with women and families, must have either marriage certificate or birth certificate for the child with both parents' names.

Program has undergone significant changes in early 2008; phone them for details.
Needs verification 1/08

Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)
206-464-1570
515 Third Avenue, Seattle 98104

YouthCare's Orion Center
206-622-5555
1-877-622-5551 toll free
1828 Yale Ave., Seattle, WA 98101
(corner of Stewart St. and Denny Way)

Open Monday-Friday for street youth ages 13-21.

Breakfast	8:30 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Alternative school	9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Lunch	12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Drop-in center: Counseling, food, and shelter referral	2:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Tuesdays 4 p.m - 6 p.m.)
Dinner	6 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Verified 11/07

Provides safe daytime shelter and services for homeless and low-income men and women aged 50 and older, including meals, snacks, haircuts, clothing, laundry facilities and showers, library and computer room, drug and alcohol counseling. Open 365 days a year, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Verified 6/05

"A sacred space for homeless and at-risk American Indian and Alaska Native people." Nutritious breakfast; showers, laundry, clothing, access to health care, drug, and alcohol treatment. M-F 7-9am only.
Verified 6/05

English and Spanish-speaking. Drop-in shelter and hot meals. Hours are Tues.-Sun., 6:30 am-2pm. Breakfast 9-11 am, snacks and coffee all day. Clothing available as needed through St. Francis house. Job training, computer and ESL classes. History Channel, Discovery Channel, and other educational programming. Classic Spanish-language movies every Saturday night. Mass on Thursdays at 11 am.
Verified 6/05

English and Spanish-speaking. Drop-in center; offers refreshments, but no housing. Hours are 8am-5pm, M-F. Provides drug and AIDS street outreach for at-risk HIV and STD communities, including HIV testing and counseling. Special services for pregnant mothers and newborns. Harm reduction, bleach distribution, condoms, needle/sex education outreach network. Offers referral to job training, employment, moving, haircuts, and infant mortality resources. Assists clients entering treatment and detox. Offers 12-Step meetings, self-esteem groups, videos.
Verified 6/05

Family Services
206-826-3050
615 Second Ave., Suite 150, Seattle 98104

Free diapers and children's clothing for homeless families. Therapeutic daycare (ages 1-4). Transitional housing, eviction prevention services.
Verified 6/05

SHARE Storage Facility
206-448-7889 for info
Physical facility: 1015 Republican St., entrance in the alley (no mail to this address)
Mailing address: PO Box 2548, Seattle 98111

Storage of small quantities of clothes, luggage, etc.; either a locker (lock provided) or shared storage in a locked room for slightly larger items. Drop off and pick up 6:30am-8:30am M-F, 7am-9am Sat-Sun. No money payment required, but participants are expected to work one 2-hour shift/month, and attend one organizing meeting/month on a Sunday morning.
Verified 7/06

Real Change
206-441-3247
2129 Second Ave; Seattle 98121

Seattle's weekly "homeless paper". Vendors receive first 10 copies free. After that, vendors pay 35 cents a copy, leaving the vendor a 65 cent profit on each paper sold. Orientations at 1pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Verified 6/05

Transitional Assistance Program
206-315-2996
1100 Virginia St., #210, Seattle 98101

Limited assistance in crisis situations for homeless in King County.
Verified 6/05

The following resources should be particularly useful to homeless women:

YWCA of Seattle, King County, and Snohomish County YWCA Opportunity Place Work Source
206-436-8600
2024 Third Ave; Seattle 98121

Job listings, other job search help, including access to phone, computer. 8:30am-5pm M-F. Also

• Several low-income housing programs (call for details).
• Shelter for women with or without children.

Mary's Place
206-621-8474
located in First United Methodist Church
Fifth and Columbia

Day center for homeless women & their children. Showers, laundry, restrooms, etc. A program of the Church of Mary Magdalene.
8am-4pm Tues-Fri. Mondays 8am-noon.
Verified 1/03

*** If you have ideas for inclusion on this page, please send us mail. We are particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has been homeless about what organizations have been most useful to you.

• Housing.
• Shelters.
• Showers, etc..

• Real Change, the Seattle homeless paper, maintains an extensive on-line site with many useful pointers.
• Homeless Women's Network.
• Web site of Anitra Freeman, Seattle-based homelessness activist extraordinaire, who maintains an excellent set of links to homelessness-related sites on the web.

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