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The
King County Alliance for Human Services is a group of King
County Residents who are concerned about the abilities of
all our neighbors to meet their basic human needs. Many
of us are human service providers from across the county
and from many different types of agencies. We are also funders,
recipients of services, representatives from local governments
and County government, and faith-based communities.
Our primary focus as we work together is to find stable,
adequate, dedicated funding for community health and human
services to strengthen communities throughout King County.
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members work together to EDUCATE the community, including
our elected leaders, about the urgent need for community health
and human services, and the success that strengthen our communities,
in every community throughout King County. |
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of the Alliance also ADVOCATE for public officials to work
together to create long-term solutions for stable, adequate
funding of much needed services. |
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WORK IN PROGRESS |
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Good
news!
Sales tax passed yielding approximately $50
million a year for Mental Health and Substance Abuse treatment,
prevention and related diversion from chronic homelessness,
incarceration and use of the emergency health system. Read
more by clicking on the link below:
Council
adopts sales tax funding for mentally ill and drug dependent
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2004 KCAHS participants worked with the members of the Task
Force on Regional Human Services to help them understand complex
issues around needs for services and the variety of constraints
in service delivery. After studying these issues for six months,
the Task Force came to several conclusions including: |
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- We
need dedicated, adequate resources.
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- We
all need to better communicate the urgent need for services.
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2005 and 2006 Alliance participants
worked as part of the follow-up Healthy Families and Communities
Task Force which recently decided that there is an annual
funding gap of $83.1 million for those services categorized
as "regional" human services. |
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2007 the King County Alliance for
Human Services is helping to build broader awareness and community-wide
alliances necessary to implement these recommendations, identify
revenue sources and grow public support for stable, adequate
funding for community health and human services throughout
King County. |
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Good
news!
Sales tax passed yielding approximately $50million a year
for Mental Health and Substance Abuse treatment, prevention
and related diversion from chronic homelessness, incarceration
and use of the emergency health system. Read more by clicking
on the link below:
Council
adopts sales tax funding for mentally ill and drug dependent
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| Without
your steady work and inspired contributions toward making
this actually happen, people living throughout this county
would not have these resources available to help with these
difficult and urgent challenges that happen in every family.
Advocacy works! |
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| We're
all in this together! |
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A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION |
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contributions help organize and support the KCAHS in advocating
for policies that help create a dedicated revenue stream for
community health and human services. |
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suggested donation per agency is based on annual agency revenues
as follows |
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| Agency
Revenues |
Suggested
Contribution
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| Up
to $500,000 |
$500
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| More
than $500,000 |
$1,000
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| More
than $1,000,000 |
$2,000
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| More
than $3,000,000 |
$3,000
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| More
than $6,000,000 |
$6,000
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KCAHS
Members
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Auburn Youth Resources
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Meals
Partnership Coalition
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Childcare Directors Assoc. of Greater Seattle
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Central
Youth & Family Services
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CHAYA
/ WSAC
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Seattle King County Religious Leaders Task Force
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Community Health Council of Seattle King County
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North Urban Human Services Coalition
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Northshore
Youth & Family Services
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Children's
Services of Sno-Valley
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Program
for Early Parent Support
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Eastside
Human Services Alliance
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Seattle
Human Services Coaltion
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Shoreline/Lake
Forest Park Senior
Center
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South King Council for Human Services
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South
King
County Multi-Service Center
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Mt. Si Senior Center
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![[Logo: Seattle Human Services Coalition]](images/SHSC%20Logo.gif)