The City of Burien recognizes the need to support agencies that meet basic human service needs and welcomes applications from agencies that provide such services to Burien residents.
Donor Name: City of Burien
State: Washington
City: Burien
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/08/2022
Details:
Funding Priorities And Goals (Results And Strategies)
The City of Burien has adopted the following Results and Strategies as priorities for the 2023-2024 cycle. Funding priority will be given to programs that assist Burien community members to:
- Have secure, affordable housing.
- Strategies:
- Connect unhoused residents to emergency, short-, and long-term shelter options.
- Provide rental assistance, housing navigation, case management, and placement services to residents threatened by eviction.
- Reduce barriers to housing services, for example: flexible application procedures.
- Provide services to move residents along the continuum from unhoused to temporary to more permanent housing.
- Strategies:
- Be safe from violence and healthy physically, mentally and emotionally.
- Strategies:
- Provide access to high quality, low, or no barrier services that address physical and behavioral health needs with a restorative focus.
- Provide services and programs that address system, community, and interpersonal violence in all forms; physical, sexual, and emotional.
- Provide safe spaces for residents experiencing violence including children.
- Support harm reduction, self-determination, and healthy relationships.
- Provide access to medical, dental, and/or food access.
- Strategies:
- Have living wage jobs.
- Strategies:
- Offering job training courses and internship opportunities to improve skills in livable wage sectors.
- Assist people with applying for jobs by offering technology access, literacy support, and/or system navigation.
- Offer affordable childcare.
- Provide resources that aid in clearing criminal history and finding living wage jobs.
- Strategies:
- Be ready for school, experience school success, and have positive connection to their community.
- Strategies:
- Provide early childhood education.
- Provide parent education/support.
- Address the needs of at-risk youth, especially those who are in foster care, LGBTQ, BIPOC, homeless, chronically out of school, speak a primary language other than English, or whose families face barriers related to their immigration or refugee status.
- Provide opportunities for youth to participate in groups, activities, paid training programs, and job placement.
- Support training and livable wages for early childhood education staff.
- Strategies:
- Feel a sense of community and belonging.
- Strategies:
- Provide safe spaces for community to gather and promote belonging.
- Work with clients and community to determine most helpful community-responsive services.
- Work with people in their own environments.
- Provide a mechanism for community feedback.
- Offer programming that builds inclusion, community connections, and support including belonging events.
- Strategies:
For more information, visit City of Burien.
