Burien project takes next steps, we partner up for vaccine outreach
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Project Managers fill a wide range of supportive needs
Project Manager Tianna manages one of 15 Permanent Supportive Housing buildings. PMs have big jobs, which range from reassuring tenants that someone cares, and taking care of their needs, to working with neighbors and participating in community meetings.
Burien accepts DESC into demonstration program
We're excited to announce that at their June 21 meeting, the Burien City Council voted 6-1 in favor of including DESC Burien, a permanent supportive housing development, into the Burien Affordable Housing Demonstration Program!
The Burien project will be the first DESC housing built outside of the city of Seattle.
The council also amended the measure to require an interlocal agreement (ILA) between Burien and King County (or the Regional Homelessness Authority). The ILA aims to ensure that 30 percent of the people housed in the new building come from Burien. We are happy to participate in this effort, and think that we can help make this happen.
The project, at 801 SW 150th Street in Burien, will create much-needed stable supportive housing for vulnerable people experiencing homelessness, including 25 units set aside for veterans. We look forward to continuing to develop relationships in Burien and to being good neighbors for years to come!
Today Show features two from DESC community
Carson Daly focuses Mind Matters on mental health and homelessness
Thank you to our DESC peer counselor and tenant for sharing with Carson Daly of the Today Show how housing improved their mental health.
DESC and Swedish reach out to offer vaccinations
Partners vaccinate neighbors experiencing homeless
Thanks to the efforts of DESC’s COVID Team in partnership with Swedish Medical Center, 112 people who might not otherwise have had access received COVID-19 vaccinations during a June 15-17 outreach event.
DESC and Swedish began to coordinate in early June to offer outreach vaccination clinics to our community members experiencing homelessness...Continued on our website.
COVID news brief
Still observing precautions
COVID is still top of mind for DESC and our programs. We continue to observe precautions, test clients and staff as needed and vaccinate clients, staff and others who come to clinics. Thanks to testing and documentation, we know that as of Wednesday, June 30, 237 DESC clients and 76 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 since March 2020.
Grant pays for more vaccination clinics this summer
DESC also received a $25,000 grant to support vaccine clinics from All in Washington, the statewide pandemic response fund managed by the Seattle Foundation. The grant will pay for expenses for 10 vaccine clinics, including PPE, sharps containers, educational materials and harm reduction supplies.
DESC works to find shelter replacements for Exhibition Hall, the Renton hotel shelter
As vaccinations ease the pandemic, and Washington state returns to a more normal life, DESC is working hard to find and prepare places for our temporary guests to go from their pandemic emergency shelter at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall and the Renton hotel shelter. Continued on our website...
Tenant story: safe & at home
What is it like to have a place of your own?
DESC thanks Bear Woman Who Stands Tall for sharing her story in our most recent video, created for the virtual groundbreaking ceremony for DESC’s Bitter Lake Supportive Housing project,
This segment explores the difference it makes to have safe housing and access to support services.
Order a tile: help us provide the keys to health
Over 10,000 people will walk through The Hobson Clinic's doors each year. Help us provide a gateway that celebrates DESC’s commitment to the vulnerable population that is experiencing homelessness. Purchase a tile for our first donor wall!
Muralist Sarah Robbins has designed this glass-tiled mosaic wall. It will feature a compliment of keys, suggesting DESC’s logo and the fact that mental and physical health are key to everyone’s success.
This is a permanent installation, built with the rigors of high traffic in mind.
DESC and Harborview Medical Center are partnering in the Hobson Clinic project, a full-scale health care clinic with permanent supportive housing in the North Rainier neighborhood.
Hobson Place Phase 2 is Passive House pre-certified
The Hobson Place Phase 2 project has received PHIUS+ 2018 pre-certification from the Passive House Institute US. It will be the first permanent supportive housing project in Washington state to achieve Passive House certification from PHIUS.
We're hiring for many positions at DESC!
DESC news connections
Vet care for pets helps people
Seattle Veterinary Outreach cares for the pets of people who are low income and/or experiencing homelessness.
DESC & Pike Market Medical Clinic co-founder Joe Martin retires
Congratulations to social worker and activist Joe Martin on decades of service to some of Seattle’s most vulnerable residents, as he retires. Among other things, he helped found Pike Market Medical Clinic, and in 1979, DESC. Happy retirement, Joe! Read the story here.
Preparing a plan for future volunteering
We appreciate the patience of those interested in volunteering at DESC as we progress through phases of safely reopening. We are now in the process of assessing areas where vaccinated volunteers could be utilized, and looking forward to one day soon inviting those interested in getting involved back into our various programs. For more information on volunteering and updates on our progress, please visit www.desc.org/get-involved/volunteer-at-desc/.
