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People experiencing homelessness can receive services including short-term case management, connection to resources, and some basic needs. Housing case management is provided when Opportunity Council are on-site, check in for schedule details.
People experiencing homelessness can receive services including short-term case management, connection to resources, and some basic needs. Housing case management is provided when Opportunity Council are on-site, check in for schedule details.
Categories
Navigating the System
Homeless
Case Management
Community Support Services
Help Fill out Forms
Help Find Housing
24/7 overnight shelter and day center including men and women dorms, medical respite, and a family shelter. Pets welcome. Nightly check-in begins at 7pm. Free breakfast (7am), lunch (12pm), and dinner (5pm) served daily. Other services for guests include showers, public restrooms, and laundry services.
24/7 overnight shelter and day center including men and women dorms, medical respite, and a family shelter. Pets welcome. Nightly check-in begins at 7pm. Free breakfast (7am), lunch (12pm), and dinner (5pm) served daily. Other services for guests include showers, public restrooms, and laundry services.
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Temporary Shelter
Adults (31-54 years old)
Homeless
Meals
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
Categories
Navigating the System
Homeless
Transportation for School
Families
Community Support Services
Children (2-12 years old)
Near Homeless
Housing
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
Categories
Homeless
Families
Near Homeless
Children (2-12 years old)
Transportation for School
Community Support Services
Housing
Navigating the System
Free showers, restrooms, and laundry facilities available to people experiencing homelessness.
Free showers, restrooms, and laundry facilities available to people experiencing homelessness.
Categories
Personal Hygiene
Homeless
Health
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
Categories
Children (2-12 years old)
Community Support Services
Homeless
Navigating the System
Transportation for School
Housing
Families
Near Homeless
Provides crucial support to caregivers experiencing or recovering from homelessness. This program focuses on fostering healthy attachment, understanding child development, and promoting positive parenting. Provides support, coaching, developmental assessments, and connections to resources in the community.
Provides crucial support to caregivers experiencing or recovering from homelessness. This program focuses on fostering healthy attachment, understanding child development, and promoting positive parenting. Provides support, coaching, developmental assessments, and connections to resources in the community.
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Parents
Parenting Education
Homeless
Families
Children (2-12 years old)
YWCA Bellingham offers a variety of different housing programs for women experiencing homelessness: Emergency Shelter, Senior Housing (specifically for women ages 55+), Supported Rental Housing, and a family shelter for women with children. Visit Opportunity Council's Community Resource Center to apply.
YWCA Bellingham offers a variety of different housing programs for women experiencing homelessness: Emergency Shelter, Senior Housing (specifically for women ages 55+), Supported Rental Housing, and a family shelter for women with children. Visit Opportunity Council's Community Resource Center to apply.
Categories
Short-Term Housing
Female
Housing
Homeless
Temporary Shelter
A 35-bed tiny home community that primarily serves individuals and couples experiencing homelessness who are 55+ and/or medically fragile. The village has on-site case management and 24/7 staff.
A 35-bed tiny home community that primarily serves individuals and couples experiencing homelessness who are 55+ and/or medically fragile. The village has on-site case management and 24/7 staff.
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Housing
Seniors (55+ years old)
Homeless
Short-Term Housing
Emergency housing program that offers housing for minors, ages 13-17 years for up to 90 days. Emergency housing helps youth reprieve and recover from crises, access critical services, and begin to set future goals for safety and stability.
Emergency housing program that offers housing for minors, ages 13-17 years for up to 90 days. Emergency housing helps youth reprieve and recover from crises, access critical services, and begin to set future goals for safety and stability.
Categories
Temporary Shelter
Teens (13-19 years old)
Housing
Near Homeless
Short-Term Housing
Emergency
LGBTQIA+
Homeless
Apartments designated for individuals who have been involved in the criminal justice system and are otherwise homeless in Whatcom County. Referrals to this program are made through the Whatcom County Coordinated Entry program managed by Opportunity Council.
Apartments designated for individuals who have been involved in the criminal justice system and are otherwise homeless in Whatcom County. Referrals to this program are made through the Whatcom County Coordinated Entry program managed by Opportunity Council.
Categories
Homeless
Housing
Criminal Justice History
Long-Term Housing
Limited supply of laundry vouchers available each week at Opportunity Council. Vouchers are limited to one per person per month, and are distributed on a first come first served basis every Friday at 8:00 AM while supplies last. Vouchers can be redeemed at Bellingham Cleaning Center.
Limited supply of laundry vouchers available each week at Opportunity Council. Vouchers are limited to one per person per month, and are distributed on a first come first served basis every Friday at 8:00 AM while supplies last. Vouchers can be redeemed at Bellingham Cleaning Center.
Categories
Homeless
Community Support Services
Clothing
Personal Hygiene
Provides low barrier and flexible, mobile clinical mental health services to individuals and families currently experiencing or exiting homelessness who have barriers to engaging in traditional mental health services. These services include individual therapy, family therapy, therapeutic groups, workshops, crisis intervention and support, and mental health case management.
Provides low barrier and flexible, mobile clinical mental health services to individuals and families currently experiencing or exiting homelessness who have barriers to engaging in traditional mental health services. These services include individual therapy, family therapy, therapeutic groups, workshops, crisis intervention and support, and mental health case management.
Provides intensive case management paired with a variety of targeted interventions to homeless families with children, including but not limited to: emergency motel placements, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and rapid rehousing services. Apply for housing programs at Opportunity Council.
Provides intensive case management paired with a variety of targeted interventions to homeless families with children, including but not limited to: emergency motel placements, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and rapid rehousing services. Apply for housing programs at Opportunity Council.
Categories
Families
Homeless
Housing
Long-Term Housing
Short-Term Housing
Provides housing and support services to those who have served in active military, naval or air service, and their families. The program aims to serve those who are at risk of homelessness or who are homeless.
Provides housing and support services to those who have served in active military, naval or air service, and their families. The program aims to serve those who are at risk of homelessness or who are homeless.
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Housing
Veterans
National Guard
Near Homeless
Homeless
Volunteers are paired with people experiencing homelessness to support them on their journey. Volunteer allies are there to listen, provide companionship, connect clients with resources, and help them realize their goals. Being an ally requires a 6-month commitment where volunteer allies and participants meet in-person twice per month and are available\nfor phone calls and check-in’s in between.
Volunteers are paired with people experiencing homelessness to support them on their journey. Volunteer allies are there to listen, provide companionship, connect clients with resources, and help them realize their goals. Being an ally requires a 6-month commitment where volunteer allies and participants meet in-person twice per month and are available\nfor phone calls and check-in’s in between.
Categories
Civic Engagement
Homeless
Mentoring
Navigating the System
Support Network
Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness—and their family members, friends and supporters—can make the call to or chat online with the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans, where trained counselors are ready to talk confidentially 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness—and their family members, friends and supporters—can make the call to or chat online with the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans, where trained counselors are ready to talk confidentially 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Homeless
Help Hotlines
Veterans
A day-use center for at-risk, runaway and homeless youth ages 24 and under. Youth can connect with supportive adults, receive basic needs items such as food, clothing and gear for sleeping outside, and connect with other resources that will help them end their experience of homelessness.
A day-use center for at-risk, runaway and homeless youth ages 24 and under. Youth can connect with supportive adults, receive basic needs items such as food, clothing and gear for sleeping outside, and connect with other resources that will help them end their experience of homelessness.
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Personal Care Items
Teens (13-19 years old)
Clothing
Near Homeless
Personal Hygiene
Goods
Young Adults (20-30 years old)
Adults (31-54 years old)
Emergency Food
Community Support Services
Recreation
Homeless
Navigating the System
A specialty team that partners closely with many community partner agencies as part of a continuum of services, engaging clients seeking housing support who are either unenrolled from a health plan or seeking enrollment. The CORS Team aims to help clients access housing resources and other necessary services. Services in this program include Care Coordination, Housing Referral and Support, and Outreach and Engagement.
A specialty team that partners closely with many community partner agencies as part of a continuum of services, engaging clients seeking housing support who are either unenrolled from a health plan or seeking enrollment. The CORS Team aims to help clients access housing resources and other necessary services. Services in this program include Care Coordination, Housing Referral and Support, and Outreach and Engagement.
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Mediation
Peer Support
Navigating the System
Mental Health Care
Housing Advice
Near Homeless
Case Management
Homeless
Peer Recovery Coaching
All Mental Health
Addiction and Recovery
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
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Transportation for School
Near Homeless
Navigating the System
Community Support Services
Housing
Families
Homeless
Children (2-12 years old)
Certified Peer Specialists provide recovery support to adults who have an opiate and/or stimulant use disorder and experience or are at risk of homelessness. Peer specialists have lived experience of substance use and mental health recovery and are trained to provide support services.
Certified Peer Specialists provide recovery support to adults who have an opiate and/or stimulant use disorder and experience or are at risk of homelessness. Peer specialists have lived experience of substance use and mental health recovery and are trained to provide support services.
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Peer Support
Substance Use Counseling
Near Homeless
Peer Recovery Coaching
Addiction and Recovery
Opioid Dependency
Support Network
Homeless
A 9 bedroom emergency shelter serving people who are homeless and have behavioral health issues. Trained staff on-duty 24 hours a day.
A 9 bedroom emergency shelter serving people who are homeless and have behavioral health issues. Trained staff on-duty 24 hours a day.
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All Mental Health
Homeless
Dual Diagnosis
Short-Term Housing
Adults (31-54 years old)
Temporary Shelter
Primary health care services such as medical, preventive health and dental, substance abuse treatment and counseling, and mental health services for individuals who are experiencing homelessness, including migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
Primary health care services such as medical, preventive health and dental, substance abuse treatment and counseling, and mental health services for individuals who are experiencing homelessness, including migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
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Health
Mental Health Care
Homeless
Primary Care
Medical Care
Dental Care
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
Serves students experiencing homelessness. This program is designed to reduce isolation, maximize stability and maintain consistency for this population of children and youth. Contact the liaison in your school district for support.
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Community Support Services
Families
Housing
Transportation for School
Homeless
Navigating the System
Children (2-12 years old)
Near Homeless
A faith-based transitional living facility for homeless women and children who may be struggling from addiction, domestic violence, human trafficking, or a crisis pregnancy. Services include safe clean rooms and warm beds, 24 hour support staff, services for pregnant women, weekly case management, life skills classes, access to community resources, help with finding permanent housing, options for employment and continuing education, and more.
A faith-based transitional living facility for homeless women and children who may be struggling from addiction, domestic violence, human trafficking, or a crisis pregnancy. Services include safe clean rooms and warm beds, 24 hour support staff, services for pregnant women, weekly case management, life skills classes, access to community resources, help with finding permanent housing, options for employment and continuing education, and more.
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Pregnant
Children (2-12 years old)
Short-Term Housing
Temporary Shelter
Female
Homeless