Provides a drop in center that assists with food, clothing, diapers, showers, hygiene items, pet food, laundry facilities, bus fare, and temporary mailing addresses. Advocates are available to help connect individuals to community resources. Offers limited financial assistance in obtaining ID, storage fees, utility and phone bills, and rental applications. Also, provides outdoor gear when available. No overnight shelter or rental assistance.

Day Center offered at Rose Haven

Operates a drop-in center that provides meals, clothing, diapers, showers, hygiene items, pet food, laundry facilities, bus fare, and a temporary mailing address for female-identifying individuals and female-identifying individuals with children.

Programs that pay all or a portion of the telephone expenses of people whose telephone service has been or is at risk of being disconnected including any reconnection fees that may apply. Also included are programs that help qualified low-income consumers connect or hook up to the telephone network by paying a portion of the hook-up fee or encourage telephone companies to offer a deferred payment schedule for hook-up charges. Telephone service payment assistance programs may have age, income, disability, need or other eligibility requirements.

Telephone Service Payment Assistance

Programs that pay for or provide cloth or disposable diapers.

Diapers

Programs that pay for or provide soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, combs, brushes, cotton swabs, deodorant, facial tissue, toilet paper and other personal hygiene/grooming supplies for homeless people and other individuals who need them.

Personal/Grooming Supplies

Public or private organizations that provide toilet facilities that are available to the public or which coordinate the distribution of portable toilets to parks or other areas for public events.

Public Restrooms

Public or private organizations that provide showers, baths or other facilities where homeless people, travelers and others who do not have access to private bathing facilities can wash. Included are permanent shower facilities as well as mobile installations that can be moved from place to place. Also included are organizations that provide vouchers that people can use to access bathing facilities.

Public Showers/Baths

Programs that provide financial assistance to help people pay fees associated with obtaining an identification card or replacing an identification card that has been lost or stolen in situations where they cannot otherwise afford one.

Identification Card Fee Payment Assistance

Programs that provide financial assistance to help people pay the processing fee(s) that individuals in search of rental housing must submit with their application form. The fee may cover criminal background checks, rental history checks, reference checks, employment verification, income and asset verification, and/or credit reports that some landlords require and use as a screening tool for potential tenants.

Rental Application Fee Payment Assistance

Programs that provide cash or tokens for individuals who have no personal means of transportation and are unable to use public transportation (or a taxi service) for necessary local travel without assistance with the fare. Also included are programs that provide bus fare for people who need to travel out of town (e.g., for a funeral) but do not have the means to do so.

Bus Fare

Programs that supply dried or canned dog or cat food, bird seed, fodder or other types of sustenance for animals and other creatures that people keep as pets. Also included are programs that provide financial assistance that enables owners to purchase food for their pets.

Pet Food

Programs that provide clothing for people who need it. Available items depend on what has been donated and is on hand at any given time. The collection may include but does not specialize in children's clothes, work clothes, maternity clothes and shoes.

General Clothing Provision

Public or private facilities for washing, drying and ironing clothes that are available to homeless people, travelers and other individuals who do not have access to private laundry facilities.

Laundry Facilities

Programs offered by churches, restaurants and other organizations that provide meals in a central location for people who lack the resources needed to buy and prepare food. The food may be distributed to people who line up for the meal or may be served to people seated in a dining hall setting, and participants rarely need to establish eligibility for the service.

Soup Kitchens

Centers where homeless people can spend time during the day or evening. Services may include counseling and/or medication monitoring on a formal or informal basis; personal hygiene supplies; facilities for showering, shaving, napping, laundering clothes, making necessary telephone calls or attending to other personal needs; and other basic supportive services. Some centers may also provide meals or facilities for cooking. Programs that focus on homeless youth may provide case management, living skills training, family reunification assistance, classes and other educational supports, pre-employment training, health education (including HIV prevention), help in obtaining valid ID and other services that help youth successfully exit street life and transition to independent living.

Homeless Drop In Centers

Programs that provide an alternative, non-residential environment that people with any of a variety of issues can visit on an informal basis to find mutual support and access to social and recreational activities. People can drop by whenever they like without the need to make an appointment and have the option of participating in whatever activities are currently underway.

Drop In Centers

Programs that provide access to sleeping bags, tents, lanterns, outdoor stoves and other equipment for people who want to go camping. In some communities, tents, tarps, sleeping bags and other camping gear are provided for people who are homeless.

Camping Gear

Programs that provide an address for individuals who have no permanent residence and who need an address to apply for public assistance, or for travelers who need a place where mail can be sent.

Temporary Mailing Address

Offers Pierce transit bus fare (1 all-day pass per person per week) for those living in the Puyallup area. 
Offers use of mailing address. 
 Mail pick up / bus pass pick up / lunch / hygiene products on Wednesdays, 11am to 1pm. 
Offers Lunch 11:30-1pm, Wednesdays.  
Prepaid Laundry card for a specific laundry mat, plus laundry detergent 2nd & 4th Wednesdays (11am - 1pm).  
Sorry, no gas vouchers, monthly bus passes or ORCA cards.

St. Laurence Ministry / Medical Equipment Loans offered at Christ Episcopal Church

St. Laurence Ministry provides bus fare (one all day pass per person per week), a hot meal and mail pick up (can use church address to receive mail) on Wednesdays, 11-1pm.  No gas money or gas vouchers. Separately, a small medical equipment loan program available.

Programs that maintain a comprehensive collection of medical equipment and supplies for use in the home and make it available to people who need it, generally on a rental purchase basis.

General Medical Equipment/Supplies Provision

Programs that accept first aid kits, bandages and other medical dressing, ostomy supplies, incontinence supplies, compression hosiery, hernia supports, bed pans and other medical supplies and keep them for use in their own program or donate them to other community-based organizations for their own use or for distribution to the people they serve. Also included are programs that are accepting COVID-19 related supplies including hand sanitizer, disposable gloves, face masks, face shields and personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers.

Medical Supplies Donation Programs

Operates a drop-in center for homeless adults. Offers navigation assistance for housing resources and case management. 
Limited bus tickets available. 
Free Wi-Fi and local phone usage. 
Operation meal service supplies two meals lunch and dinner M-F, Saturday dinner only.
Can sometimes offer transportation assistance to re-unite individuals to family. 
A medical doctor visits the center three days per week to assist with wound care, consultation and referrals for medical care. 
Serves as a cooling  center during hot weather.
Also offers information and referral to assist clients in obtaining resources such as the following: 
-  Shelter 
-  Housing 
-  Health services 
-  Public benefits

Compass Day Center offered by Compass Housing Alliance at Compass Center

Operates a drop-in center for homeless adults only; NO CHILDREN allowed. Offers housing navigation, phone services, information and referral, and limited transportation help. Serves as a cooling center during hot weather.

Programs that pay for or provide gauze, cotton, adhesive tape, bandages and other materials which are used to provide protective covering or support for strains, sprains, fractures, wounds or other injuries.

Medical Dressing

Programs that provide air conditioned facilities which are open to the public during dangerously hot weather. Spending a few hours in an air-conditioned environment can bring down the body's core temperature and make it easier to handle the heat. Older and/or frail adults, homeless people, parents with small children and persons with health conditions that may be made worse by the weather should consider spending time in a cooling center, particularly between 1pm and 5pm when temperatures are at their highest. Cooling centers may also have water and other liquids available to protect against dehydration, and some allow pets.

Extreme Heat Cooling Centers

Programs that provide access to a telephone for homeless people and others who need to make a call and are unable to pay for it.

Telephone Facilities

Programs that assign a staff member to assist people who are looking for housing to survey the available residences and to choose and obtain the most suitable option.

Housing Search Assistance

Programs that develop plans for the evaluation, treatment and/or care of individuals who, because of age, illness, disability or other difficulties, need assistance in planning and arranging for services; which assess the individual's needs; coordinate the delivery of needed services; ensure that services are obtained in accordance with the case plan; and follow up and monitor progress to ensure that services are having a beneficial impact on the individual. Case management is a collaborative process characterized by communication, advocacy and resource management to promote high quality, cost-effective interventions and outcomes.

Case/Care Management

Routine health care provided by internists, pediatricians, family medicine specialists, gynecologists, obstetricians, nurse practitioners, midwives, physicians' assistants or other health care providers who serve as the first point of contact with the health care system. Services focus on the prevention and early detection of health problems through regular physical examinations, blood pressure checks, mammograms and other similar procedures as well as therapeutic services for people who do not require specialty care.

General Medical Care

Programs that provide bus tickets, or money or vouchers for gasoline for homeless people, relocated disaster victims or other individuals who wish to return to a legal place of residence that is outside the area in which they are currently located and who cannot leave without assistance.

Filters

Focus Population

Day Center offered at Rose Haven

St. Laurence Ministry / Medical Equipment Loans offered at Christ Episcopal Church

Compass Day Center offered by Compass Housing Alliance at Compass Center