Health & Safety

We work to increase wellness and safety in our community. We envision a future where we overcome racial and gender disparities and reduce institutional and societal barriers that drive inequities in health care access, chronic disease, and life span.

YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish works to increase wellness and safety in our community through our Health & Safety programs. We are on a mission to connect low-income women and men to accessible health care resources. 

  • YWCA's Health & Safety programs strive to make all services culturally competent and linguistically appropriate.
  • YWCA’s Health & Safety programs served 1,624 people in 2021.
  • Each program provides unique services to the needs of the community, including health education, mental health counseling, substance use disorder treatment, wellness coaching, peer support, care coordination, and insurance enrollment.

YWCA currently offers the following Health programs and partnerships:

  • Gender-based violence advocacy: Survivors FIRST, Commercial Sexual Exploitation Services, Sexual Assault Services, Children’s Domestic Violence Services, and Domestic Violence Services
  • Health access and education: BABES Network-YWCA, Health Care Access

Our programs work toward overcoming racial and gender disparities and institutional barriers that drive inequities in health care access and quality of life. When communities are healthy and safe, we all prosper.

Documents
2022 YWCA Fact Sheet - Health Safety.pdf

Related Health & Safety Programs

BABES Network

BABES Network provides peer support for women living with HIV. Since 1989, this program has reduced isolation and stigma and created a "sisterhood of support" for women affected by HIV and their families through education, outreach, advocacy, and more.
Health Access

Central Area Food Bank

Distributes food weekly to residents in YWCA emergency shelter and transitional housing, as well as low-income families throughout the community.
Basic Needs

Gender-Based Violence Specialized Services Toll-free call & text line 877.757.8297

YWCA’s Gender-Based Violence Specialized Services (GBVSS) uses a survivor-centered model to heal the harm caused by gender-based violence such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and commercial sexual exploitation on individuals, families, and our community. Our services utilize a culturally relevant practice and trauma-informed care approach.
DV Advocacy

Health Care Access

Meets with individuals and families in emergency shelters and day centers throughout Seattle to provide support and education on how to access health services and navigate systems of care. 
Health Access

Homeward House CORE Collaborative

Homeward House is a coalition of people from social service agencies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and the community at large in Snohomish County. Together, we work to reduce and prevent the harm, damage, and costs of opioid and other substance use disorders to current and future generations in our community.
Health & Safety

Parents for Parents

Through early engagement, support, and education, this program helps parents with a dependency case quickly and safely reunify with their children.
Counseling

Survivors FIRST

Survivors FIRST (Facilitating Information and Resources for Survivors of Trauma) is a program in partnership between YWCA and the King County Prosecuting Attorney to directly connect survivor-defendants to intervention services without criminal charges.
Legal Services
DV Advocacy
Counseling
Health & Safety