Causes: Community Service Clubs, Family Services, Food, Food Banks & Pantries, Human Service Organizations, Human Services

Mission: Familyworks connects neighbors and families to nourishing food, essential resources and a supportive community, so people can build resiliency to meet lifes challenges. Familyworks advocates with dignity, inclusion, empowerment.

Programs: Food bank:in 2017, familyworks distributed over 265 tons of nutritious food through the food bank to 3,116 individuals and 2,256 households. There were 28,487 visits to the food bank, serving 41,456 and 3,684 deliveries of groceries to 140 homebound seniors. In addition, the food bank provided 1,899 backpacks filled with healthy meals to area students facing food-insecure households on the weekends and 2,340 snackpacks to children residing at marys place family shelter in north seattle.

resource center:1,653 individuals participated in our family resource center programs including parenting classes and workshops, parent/child programs and field trips, computer tutoring, and employment counseling. We expanded our family advocacy program to five days a week, and provided 958 instances of one-on-one assistance and support, in english and spanish. 30 young parents participated in the teen parent program; of 16 participants who were eligible to be measured and completed surveys, 100% improved their connections to their communities, and 100% strengthened their parenting skills. 551 volunteers contributed 9,338 hours in our food banks and family resource center.