Kenmore Senior Women’s Shelter, run by Lake City Partners, is in the process of opening and housing senior women. We will have an ongoing collection box set up at Redeemer to collect items that they are needing.
Requested items are the following:
- New clean sheets and mattress covers for twin sized beds.
- New blankets.
- New pillows and pillow cases.
- Coats.
- Hats.
- Gloves.
- Jigsaw puzzles of 1000+ pieces.
- Prepackaged snacks and treats.
- Cider, cocoa, or tea packets.
They are not needing any toiletry items at this time.
What is the Kenmore Senior Women’s Shelter?
Kenmore Senior Women’s Shelter is a specialized shelter program serving retirement-age women who are seeking shared housing solutions. That is, they seek renting rooms together in affordable or low income apartments or houses. The target shelter census is 30 women. For information on referrals, please contact Thomas Burnside (thomas@lakecitypartners.org).
For a deeper-dive into the underlying landscape of a growing crisis of unsheltered homelessness for very low-income seniors, review this paper by William Towey, Lake City Partners Executive Director, and this shelter design approach document.
Who will be residing there?
The target population is senior women who are community-minded, socially-stable, and retirement-age with very low fixed income. These women are the following:
- Have few or no behavioral health barriers to housing.
- Primary driver of homelessness usually due to being on average just $200-300 a month shy of affording market-based housing.
- Are not candidates for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH).
Lake City Partners
At Lake City Partners, their mission is to end homelessness by providing shelter and supportive services, so that people have increased opportunities for stabilization, recovery, and permanent housing.
They activate their mission by providing Day Center, Enhanced Shelter, Outreach, and advanced Client Services in the North Seattle and King County area. We work closely with many other organizations, government agencies, and service providers. We encourage our community members to participate in our collective work through volunteering, advocacy, and organizing work.
Since 2015, they have been supporting unhoused people in our community with direct outreach and shelter operations. Our origin story begins with community driven street outreach and a nightly ‘winter shelter’ program during the winter months hosted by area congregations around North Seattle.
Today, their work is a central component of the North Seattle and King County response to homelessness, with 40+ staff and 100s of volunteers and supporters.
Lake City Partners build trusted relationships with people who are experiencing homelessness. They work together with people to overcome their barriers to housing. They end homelessness for people.
To find out more, visit the Lake City Partners website.
Church of the Redeemer
Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
The Episcopal Church welcomes you.