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The Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) is a non-profit organization in Seattle, Washington, providing services for that city's homeless population. [1] The organization was founded in 1979 to aid men and women living in a state of chronic homelessness who, due to their severe and persistent mental and addictive illnesses, were not being served by the existing shelters at the time.
The first women's shelter in the modern world was Haven House, which opened in 1964 in California. [53] An early women's shelter in the United States, Emergency Shelter Program Inc. (now Ruby's Place inc.), was established in Hayward, California, in 1972 by a local group of women who attended church together.
The U.S. state of Washington has six telephone area codes. The state initially used a single area code until it was divided in 1957 with the creation of area code 509 to serve Eastern Washington. In 1995, 206 was split again to serve just the Puget Sound region after area code 360 was created for the remainder of Western Washington.
More than 550 victim-survivors were turned away from Bemidji's Northwoods Battered Women's Shelter in 2022 due to a lack of space. Crews break ground this week on a new $4.1 million facility ...
Kent is a city in King County, Washington, United States.It is part of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan area and had a population of 136,588 as of the 2020 census, [5] making it the 4th most populous municipality in greater Seattle and the 6th most populous in Washington state.
It was founded in 1974 by Kip Tiernan as the first shelter specifically for homeless women in the United States. [1] It has evolved from providing meals and shelter to creating permanent solutions through advocacy, education and affordable housing .
National Organisation for Women's Shelters and Young Women's Shelters in Sweden; Nkosi's Haven; U. Unizon This page was last edited on 18 May 2021, at 01:42 ...
Change Agents are staff members who volunteer their time to participate in the Washington Way program. Change Agents submit proposals on ways to change and improve their facilities and the department as a whole. As of February 2025, only the Washington Corrections Center for Women and the Washington State Penitentiary have Change Agent programs.