Chief Seattle Club

Programs: Day center - open 7 days a week, 364 days a year. Members receive basic needs like meals, showers, and laundry. Additional on-site services include a nurse, mental health counselor, public benefits screener, and traditional healers. In 2017, the club served 1,156 unduplicated members through 88,137 meals; 11,349 showers/laundry; 972 health treatments; housing assistance to 288 households; and assistance obtaining birth certificates, state/tribal id cards and bus passes for 499 members. From 2015 to 2017, annual visits to the club increased 69% from 21,244 to 35,978.

housing assistance - in 2017, the club provided housing assistance to 288 households. Case managers paired with financial assistance help homeless/low-income native americans obtain permanent housing through move-in assistance (first/last months' rent, security deposits, applications fees); maintain housing to prevent homelessness through eviction prevention funds (back rent, utility assistance); diversion (employment and transportation expenses to increase access to income/resources to obtain housing); and emergency housing (short-term motels for homeless households that have permanent housing lined up in the near future).

native works - launched in 2017 at a stall in seattles pike place market. Native works provides trauma-informed job training and hires homeless native apprentices through self-paced part-time employment. Apprentices are paid hourly and work up to 15 hours/week. Products use designs by native artists, such as a leather bracelet with a coast salish design featuring the lushootseed word for home. Native works apprentices stamp the design with a mallet and package the bracelets with literature about native homelessness. In 2017, native works provided assistance to 28 apprentices.