News and Highlights
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KCVP remote services

Free webinars on public benefits

COVID-19 financial resource list

Meet our new partner, HealthierHere!

Tips for older adults

Open funding opportunities

Adapting KCVP services during the COVID-19 pandemic

Our KCVP Social Service Professionals (SSPs) adapted and shifted roles over the past month and a half to respond to our communities’ most pressing needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. By phone and online, SSPs are focused on connecting King County’s veterans, servicemembers and their families to critical services such as eviction prevention, utility shut-off prevention and food and gas assistance. KCVP SSPs are also supporting a VSHSL-funded meal delivery program that is working to help address food insecurity stemming from impacts of COVID-19.   

Read more about how SSPs are providing remote services.

Free webinars on public benefits during COVID-19

Since early April our VSHSL-funded civil legal partners Solid Ground, Northwest Justice Project, King County Bar Association's Housing Justice Project, Catholic Community Services' Tenant Law Center, Eastside Legal Assistance Program (ELAP), Benefits Law Center and Unemployment Law Project, partnered to create and offer a series of free webinars on temporary changes to state and federal benefits and housing policies. 

Recent webinars specific to the impact of COVID-19 are below.  Feel free to view the recorded webinars at the links below and share widely.

Webinar: State Benefits During COVID-19

Webinar: SSI/SSDI Benefits During COVID-19

Mini-Webinar: Updated Tenant Rights During Covid-19

Webinar: Veterans Rights 4.2.20

See additional webinars and resources on ELAP's website.

To all our civil legal partners: Thank you for all you do to serve King County’s communities.

Financial resources for small businesses and nonprofit providers

Many organizations are struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. To help share some of the local, state and federal financial resources for small businesses and nonprofit providers, VSHSL staff created a go-to list of financial resources.

This list is not all-inclusive.

Information can change quickly, please continue to refer to the websites included in this list for the most up to date information.

COVID-19 financial resource list for small businesses and nonprofits.

Better connecting individuals to community-rooted services

Congratulations to HealthierHere, our new awardee funded through the Countywide Information and Referral VSHSL strategy! HealthierHere, in collaboration with Crisis Connections, WAServes and a diversity of health, human service, and community partners in King County will be creating a Community Information Exchange (CIE). The CIE will provide centralized, technology-based information and referral services that can help connect individuals with community-based services that provide housing, financial, health and social stability supports.

Learn more about our new partner HealthierHere.

Newsletter for older adults: Stay safe at home

Calling all senior serving providers. Our friends at Public Health-Seattle & King County created a one-time newsletter to provide seniors with older adult specific information about COVID-19. The newsletter contains information such as: how to care for yourself if you get sick preventing the spread of COVID-19 at home living in a multi-generational household tips for staying healthy at home. If your program serves seniors, you can print and mail it to your clients. Print the newsletter, staple the edges and fold the newsletter in half. There is space reserved for addresses and postage on the last page.   Download the 'Stay Safe at Home' newsletter.

Open funding opportunities

Vets Engaged Successful applicants will provide community-building activities or events that provide opportunities for veterans and their families to socialize with one another and with others. Applications accepted on a rolling basis

For a list of upcoming funding opportunities visit www.kingcounty.gov/VSHSL-Funding

VSHSL in the news

Sno-Valley Senior Center gets new director, The Woodinville Weekly

Tukwila Parks & Rec offering FREE deliveries of meals to seniors, Tukwila Blog