“Most Steer Clear” Media Campaign Works to Prevent Impaired Driving
March 4, 2026
Read the whole The Roundabout Safe Travels Quarterly Report https://wtsc.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2026/02/Roundabout-Issue-2.pdf
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Honoring the Black gay community’s great connector | Seattle Pride 50
October 3, 2025
An article from The Seattle Times While he worked and volunteered for many social-service nonprofits (kidney-health education with Northwest Kidney Centers, meal delivery for SouthEast Seattle Senior Center), McMullen’s passion was HIV and AIDS prevention and support. His official vehicles for that work were Neighborhood House and People of Color Against AIDS Network, or POCAAN …
Groundbreaking UI Navigators program receives $1 million to continue helping underserved communities
October 1, 2025
Via Employment Security Department, Washington State “OLYMPIA – In the past 16 months, community organizations have helped more than 7,000 people in underserved communities better understand the unemployment benefits they had available. Thanks to $1 million from the state Legislature, the Employment Security Department’s groundbreaking Unemployment Insurance (UI) Navigator program will continue for another year. …
Well Point Annual Report
January 24, 2025
VSHSL investments in King County’s seniors and their caregivers
January 23, 2025
Senior Health Promotion Healthy Living (HL) 6: Senior Health Promotion funds a diverse set of programs that empower King County seniors to address their health and well-being. From fall prevention and nutrition to unique, culturally informed physical activities, chronic disease management and prevention, and health education, these programs offer seniors the options to make meaningful, lasting changes …
Evidence-based programs are improving the health of older adults in King County
June 17, 2024
Impact of Senior Health Promotion Programs “At various King County public housing sites, Neighborhood House offered evidence-based and evidence-informed programs in multiple languages that provided opportunities for seniors to participate in physical activity, learn how to age well, engage in health education, and receive support around depression.” Read the full article below:
WA boost in student homelessness funding reaches more districts
March 14, 2024
Article by Greg Kim in the Seattle Times (published Feb. 21, 2024) “About half of the increased state funding went to nonprofits serving homeless students, such as Neighborhood House in King County, which received nearly $200,000. It’s using that to help homeless students and their families in Tukwila, where an immigration crisis has brought hundreds …
Najma Mohamed and Lesley Steinman Awarded Tier 1 Pilot Award – UW Health Promotion Research Center
January 12, 2024
Blog post originally by: Kenzie Lock Najma Mohamed, Community Health Nurse at Neighborhood House, and Lesley Steinman, Research Scientist at HPRC, were recently awarded a Tier 1 Pilot Award by the University of Washington Population Health Initiative. This grant program is designed to foster new collaborations among interdisciplinary investigators in generating proof-of-concept for future projects. Mohamed and …
Human Services Professionals Help All of Us. It’s Time to Pay Them What They’re Worth.
June 20, 2023
“If your children have attended child care or after-school programs, if you’ve accessed a food bank, or if you are a renter (or a landlord) who received rental assistance during COVID, your life has been touched by a human services professional. Human services professionals support Seattle’s human infrastructure. They work in child care, emergency shelters, …
Reimagining holidays in nonprofits
February 23, 2023
“We recognized that our holiday structure excluded different faiths and values that are held by Neighborhood House employees. Neighborhood House has 350 staff members who speak over 40 languages. 72% of staff members identify as Black, Indigenous or POC. 33% self-identify as immigrants and 36% report that English is not their primary language.” Read more …
Human services wages are even worse than you imagined
February 23, 2023
“Nonprofit leaders say they’re losing talented workers—and struggling to recruit new ones—because they can’t offer competitive wages. Janice Deguchi, the executive director of Neighborhood House, said the nonprofit recently lost a teacher who had been working to connect a developmentally delayed child to the group’s early-learning program and other services.” Read more about the new comparable …
Auburn School District supports education access with $50,000 King County grant
January 26, 2023
“Andy Pham, Youth Engagement Coordinator and Rachael Parks, Youth Engagement Specialist from Neighborhood House present the Student Chromebook Cart.”
Social service workers rally at Seattle City Hall over proposed budget cuts
November 8, 2022
“A city law passed in 2019 was supposed to ensure that front-line social service workers’ wages would continue to increase with inflation in these times. But the mayor’s proposed budget rolled that promise back. People who work on the front lines to serve homeless people and the community’s most vulnerable populations say depressed wages are …
Sunset Neighborhood transformation projects underway
November 1, 2022
“The Sunset Neighborhood Center is a City of Renton and Renton Housing Authority project and on-site service providers include Health Point Clinic, Neighborhood House, Valley Service Behavioral Health Care, and St. Vincent de Paul Centro Rendu.” Read more below from the Renton Reporter.
Senator Murray Secures $2 Million to Get Diapers to WA Families in Need
September 30, 2022
“Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services (LHHS), announced Washington state organizations would receive $2 million in funding to provide diapers to families in need. The funding comes from a new pilot program, administered through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which Senator …
Navigators at the World School guide students through the health-care maze
August 31, 2022
“The school has it’s own health clinic, where students can receive a variety of medical services, including dental, medical, and behavioral health services. That’s because the Seattle World School is specifically for new immigrants and refugee youth who have recently moved to the area.” Thank you to KUOW for featuring Neighborhood House staff members in …
Seattle taps UW to study social worker pay
July 27, 2022
“Human services workers include child care workers, healthcare workers in community clinics, outreach workers who work with unhoused populations, eldercare workers, youth program workers and people who take care of disabled people, among others. These people, said Janice Deguchi, another co-chair of the SHSC and the executive director of Neighborhood House, in a press release, …
Seattle’s low income communities benefit from soda tax revenue UW study says
July 13, 2022
“Emy Haruo, director of community resources at the social service organization Neighborhood House, says having Fresh Bucks vouchers helps her clients stretch their food budget.” Read more about how the city’s soda tax funds programs such as Fresh Bucks. https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattles-low-income-communities-benefit-from-soda-tax-revenue-uw-study-says
HSD selects University of Washington to conduct comparable worth wage equity of human services work
July 12, 2022
“‘The people who take care of our children, provide healthcare in community-based clinics, help people without homes connect with resources, engage our elders, support our youth, and care for people with disabilities are often paid at such low levels that they qualify for public support programs themselves,’ said Janice Deguchi, Executive Director of Neighborhood House …