Our friends from Merit Homes serve up a delicious meal for Community Supper It’s a rainy Tuesday evening. A woman gets off the bus and walks into Holy Spirit Lutheran Church. In the Fellowship Hall, she sees tables and chairs filled with men, women, and children enjoying a meal and then a long table staffed with volunteers serving food. She scans...
We have been very fortunate to have had the help of a very devoted intern and volunteer for the last year. Anastasia, or Ana as she tends to go by, is studying behavioral and social services at the Lake Washington Institute and has helped out our staff immensely by processing Stable Home rental assistance requests and interviewing applicants. She has...
Carmelita Parraz has been the backbone of Attain Housing’s case management and facilities management for over six years, but will be stepping away from her role later this summer to take on another big role: motherhood! We are so excited for Carmelita and her husband to take that next big step into parenthood, but we will be very sad to...
Photo credit: Jody Steere We would like to welcome all current and past volunteers, board members, and supporters to join us in celebrating 30 years of serving Eastside Families! Attain Housing Fall LuncheonThursday, September 26, 2019Bellevue Presbyterian Church1717 Bellevue Way NEBellevue, WA 98004 Are you a champion for affordable housing? Want to be an advocate for homeless families? Be a Table Captain for...
Photo credit: Ashish Keshwani Formerly known as Welcome Home, our rental assistance program is bigger than ever—and it needs your help! Is prevention the best strategy in reducing homelessness numbers in our region? It may not address the full, systemic picture of what causes homelessness, but eviction prevention and rental assistance remains a very fiscally sound and overall effective way of...
Stable Home client Alicia and her daughter. Photo credit: Carol Ryan. A recap of our Affordable Housing Week event By Carol Ryan, Development Director Spending your 15-minute work break making calls for rental assistance. Calling back up to 20 agencies every two weeks to make sure the family’s name doesn’t fall off a waitlist for permanent housing. Driving your kids from your...
Kathy Fleming, Executive Director Springtime and Landlords…what do they have in common? If it’s time for 7 Hills of Kirkland, it must be spring! We’re excited to see as many riders, volunteers, and spectators as possible to support the primary fundraiser for Attain Housing. All the registration fees and donations at this point go straight to serve our families through housing, financial...
Photo credit: Peter Clancy Join us for the Eastside’s best Memorial Day activity! The annual 7 Hills of Kirkland bike ride is right around the corner! Every Memorial Day, Attain Housing hosts and organizes the 7 Hills ride as a fundraiser to support homeless and at-risk families and individuals. With the help of many dedicated and generous volunteers, the ride starts and...
Stable housing makes for stable families, like these Attain Housing clients: Adrien, Reine, their niece, and three daughters. Rwandan immigrants, they are just one of the families with a safe and stable place to call home thanks to community support for our housing programs. Make your GiveBig gift today to help families like Adrien and Reine and to prevent other Eastside...
The people have spoken and our Welcome Home program will soon be known as "Stable Home." The name was one of the top three choices as compiled and voted on by staff and board members. We decided to leave the final vote up to our followers on Facebook and Stable Home was the clear winner. Thank you to those who participated...