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Temporary housing program for young adults ages 18 to 24. Provides four beds at each location (Bellingham and Mt. Vernon) where young adults can stay for up to 90 days. Note: HUSLY is accessed through a main application process and is NOT first come, first served.
Temporary housing program for young adults ages 18 to 24. Provides four beds at each location (Bellingham and Mt. Vernon) where young adults can stay for up to 90 days. Note: HUSLY is accessed through a main application process and is NOT first come, first served.
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Homeless
Teens
Adults
Housing
Emergency Shelter
Short-Term Housing
Community-based food distributor with locations throughout Whatcom County. Food pick-up days/times vary by location. Schedule and phone numbers for each location are listed online.
Community-based food distributor with locations throughout Whatcom County. Food pick-up days/times vary by location. Schedule and phone numbers for each location are listed online.
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Free Meals
Food
Food Pantry
Emergency Food
Meals
Naloxone (commonly called Narcan) is a medication that reverses an opioid overdose. People in Washington State can order free naloxone by filling out an online form. This mail order program is for people who can't get naloxone in their community.
Naloxone (commonly called Narcan) is a medication that reverses an opioid overdose. People in Washington State can order free naloxone by filling out an online form. This mail order program is for people who can't get naloxone in their community.
Online chat option to access a range of free services including confidential support from a trained staff member, support finding a local health facility with services like sexual assault forensic exams, someone to help you talk through what happened, local resources that can assist with your next steps toward healing and recovery, referrals for long term support in your area, information about the laws in your community, and basic information about medical concerns.
Online chat option to access a range of free services including confidential support from a trained staff member, support finding a local health facility with services like sexual assault forensic exams, someone to help you talk through what happened, local resources that can assist with your next steps toward healing and recovery, referrals for long term support in your area, information about the laws in your community, and basic information about medical concerns.
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Virtual Support
Support Network
Sexual Assault Survivors
Help Hotlines
Emergency
Help paying a PSE bill for people who have an urgent and/or shut off notice. Appointment with Opportunity Council Energy Assistance needs to be scheduled first (temporary assistance offered in the event appointment is scheduled far out).
Help paying a PSE bill for people who have an urgent and/or shut off notice. Appointment with Opportunity Council Energy Assistance needs to be scheduled first (temporary assistance offered in the event appointment is scheduled far out).
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Emergency Payments
Help Pay for Utilities
Basic Needs provided free of charge to those in need in our community. Resources include clothing, household goods, toiletries, period supplies, cleaning supplies, diapers, emergency food, and more. Limited financial assistance available Mondays and Fridays.
Basic Needs provided free of charge to those in need in our community. Resources include clothing, household goods, toiletries, period supplies, cleaning supplies, diapers, emergency food, and more. Limited financial assistance available Mondays and Fridays.
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Baby Clothes
Diapers & Formula
Clothing
Home Goods
Personal Care Items
Financial Assistance
Baby Supplies
Emergency Food
Goods
24/7 overnight shelter and day center for adults ages 18 and older. 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 for adults ages 18 and older. 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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Meals
Free Meals
Adults
Temporary Shelter
Emergency Shelter
Homeless
Provides coordination and recovery services to individuals, families and entities adversely impacted by disaster in Whatcom County.
Provides coordination and recovery services to individuals, families and entities adversely impacted by disaster in Whatcom County.
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Emergency
Natural Disaster Survivors
Disaster Preparedness & Response
Disaster Response
Provides limited emergency financial assistance for food, gas, and other basic needs (please note, assistance is not available for rent). Call and leave a message to request assistance.
Provides limited emergency financial assistance for food, gas, and other basic needs (please note, assistance is not available for rent). Call and leave a message to request assistance.
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Money
Emergency Payments
Financial Assistance
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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Near Homeless
Personal Care Items
Homeless
Emergency Food
Personal Hygiene
Goods
Clothing
Teens
Adults
Recreation
Navigating the System
Community Support Services
Provides assistance to residents of Blaine, Birch Bay, Custer, and Point Roberts who have short-term emergency needs for financial assistance, including utility bills (shut-off impending), critical prescription needs, grocery vouchers (when other food assistance is not available), and emergency gasoline assistance.
Provides assistance to residents of Blaine, Birch Bay, Custer, and Point Roberts who have short-term emergency needs for financial assistance, including utility bills (shut-off impending), critical prescription needs, grocery vouchers (when other food assistance is not available), and emergency gasoline assistance.
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Emergency
Money
Emergency Payments
Help Pay for Food
Help Pay for Gas
Help Pay for Utilities
Financial Assistance
Prescription Assistance
In Crisis
Call the Severe Weather Shelter Information Hotline for the most up to date emergency shelter information.
Call the Severe Weather Shelter Information Hotline for the most up to date emergency shelter information.
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Weather Relief
Emergency
Temporary Shelter
Emergency Shelter
Designated Crisis Responders provide legal assessment of grave disability and/or danger to self or others as a result of a mental health or substance use disorder for possible involuntary detention to a behavioral health facility. As a component of the evaluation, it must be determined that other, less restrictive options for stabilization of the crisis have been ruled out or deemed inappropriate.
Designated Crisis Responders provide legal assessment of grave disability and/or danger to self or others as a result of a mental health or substance use disorder for possible involuntary detention to a behavioral health facility. As a component of the evaluation, it must be determined that other, less restrictive options for stabilization of the crisis have been ruled out or deemed inappropriate.
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Psychiatric Emergency Services
Substance Dependency
Mental Health Care
Mental Illness
In Crisis
Assists in meeting the food needs for low-income elementary school students in the Mount Baker School District over Winter and Spring breaks. Students who participate in the program are provided with a supply of kid-friendly, easy-to-prepare snacks and meals. For more information, or to get your child involved in this program, please contact your school’s Family Resource Coordinator.
Assists in meeting the food needs for low-income elementary school students in the Mount Baker School District over Winter and Spring breaks. Students who participate in the program are provided with a supply of kid-friendly, easy-to-prepare snacks and meals. For more information, or to get your child involved in this program, please contact your school’s Family Resource Coordinator.
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Food
Food Pantry
Emergency Food
Children
Families
Services for immediate help include 24-hour helpline, walk-in advocacy counseling, support during medical exams related to domestic violence or sexual assault, and immediate safety planning and crisis intervention from the scene of a domestic violence call.
Services for immediate help include 24-hour helpline, walk-in advocacy counseling, support during medical exams related to domestic violence or sexual assault, and immediate safety planning and crisis intervention from the scene of a domestic violence call.
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Domestic Violence Survivors
Emergency
Immediate Safety
Sexual Assault Survivors
Help Escape Violence
The Red Cross assists military families in communicating with loved ones in an emergency, deployment assistance, and emergency financial assistance.
The Red Cross assists military families in communicating with loved ones in an emergency, deployment assistance, and emergency financial assistance.
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Emergency Payments
Disaster Preparedness & Response
National Guard
Active Duty
Veterans
Provides limited emergency financial assistance through vouchers for food, gas, and other basic needs. Call and leave a message to request assistance. Messages will be responded to on Tuesday mornings and Thursday afternoons.
Provides limited emergency financial assistance through vouchers for food, gas, and other basic needs. Call and leave a message to request assistance. Messages will be responded to on Tuesday mornings and Thursday afternoons.
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Emergency Payments
Help Pay for Food
Help Pay for Gas
Financial Assistance
Money
Assists law enforcement agencies and parents in locating missing persons. Call the toll-free, 24-hour number to report missing persons. Local law enforcement must be notified before MUPU can become involved.
Assists law enforcement agencies and parents in locating missing persons. Call the toll-free, 24-hour number to report missing persons. Local law enforcement must be notified before MUPU can become involved.
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Help Find Missing Persons
Emergency
A Bellingham program that sends a behavioral health specialist and a public health nurse to respond to specific non-violent behavioral health 911 calls. The Alternative Response Team (ART) is an innovative program that benefits people having mental or behavioral health challenges, and our police personnel, allowing them to respond to other emergent calls requiring law enforcement intervention.
A Bellingham program that sends a behavioral health specialist and a public health nurse to respond to specific non-violent behavioral health 911 calls. The Alternative Response Team (ART) is an innovative program that benefits people having mental or behavioral health challenges, and our police personnel, allowing them to respond to other emergent calls requiring law enforcement intervention.
Regional crisis line for anyone in crisis, those who want to know more about suicide prevention and further resources, and requests for local crisis outreach and response services.
Regional crisis line for anyone in crisis, those who want to know more about suicide prevention and further resources, and requests for local crisis outreach and response services.
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Psychiatric Emergency Services
Help Hotlines
In Crisis
Emergency
Around-the-clock care for serious illnesses and injuries. Conditions treated include behavioral health emergencies, brain & spine trauma, cerebrovascular emergencies, heart emergencies, orthopedic injuries, overdoses or poisonings, pregnancy complications, respiratory emergencies, and traumatic injuries.
Around-the-clock care for serious illnesses and injuries. Conditions treated include behavioral health emergencies, brain & spine trauma, cerebrovascular emergencies, heart emergencies, orthopedic injuries, overdoses or poisonings, pregnancy complications, respiratory emergencies, and traumatic injuries.
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Emergency
Medical Care
Psychiatric Emergency Services
Health
Sign up to receive emergency alerts and severe weather warnings that could directly impact you and your family.
Sign up to receive emergency alerts and severe weather warnings that could directly impact you and your family.
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Emergency
Disaster Preparedness & Response
Provides food and energy assistance to low income households allowing the clients to maintain his or her dignity while applying for services. Commodity foods, nutrition education, energy assistance, lummi wood cutting, food bank, diapers and clothing, and holiday food baskets.
Provides food and energy assistance to low income households allowing the clients to maintain his or her dignity while applying for services. Commodity foods, nutrition education, energy assistance, lummi wood cutting, food bank, diapers and clothing, and holiday food baskets.
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Food
Emergency
Help Pay for Utilities
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.
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LGBTQ
Near Homeless
Homeless
Temporary Shelter
Short-Term Housing
Emergency Shelter
Teens
Housing
Emergency
Emergency shelter open during severe weather events to provide individuals and families in need with a safe place to sleep, warm food, and referrals to community resources whenever possible. Call or check website to verify open status.
Emergency shelter open during severe weather events to provide individuals and families in need with a safe place to sleep, warm food, and referrals to community resources whenever possible. Call or check website to verify open status.
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Emergency Shelter
Temporary Shelter
Homeless
Housing
Emergency
Weather Relief