News
Making Connections: Economic Opportunities and the Pathway to Ending Family Homelessness
Impatient Optimists, 7/16/14
David Wertheimer, Deputy Director of the Pacific Northwest initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reflects on the links between economic security and housing stability in the work to end homelessness, citing successful local and national efforts including Building Changes' Housing and Employment Navigator model.
First Lady Trudi Inslee focuses on youth and family homelessness
Local organizations joined First Lady Trudi Inslee for a day of learning about youth and family homelessness and collective efforts to work across systems.
// Read more...GiveBIG on May 6th to make family homelessness rare and brief
Your gift will create solutions that get kids and families back into homes quickly.
// Read more...Pierce County chosen for Leadership in Action Program (LAP)
Through LAP, Building Changes is helping develop strong leaders to sustain our communities’ progress and momentum in ending family homelessness.
// Read more...Rapid re-housing touches communities statewide
Funding for rapid re-housing and training has now been expanded to all 39 counties in Washington State.
// Read more...2014 Legislative Session: How did homelessness and health care fare?
A list of key priorities impacting housing and homelessness.
// Read more...Elementary School Pilot Program Helps Family Escape Homelessness
NW News Network, 3/11/14
A family helped by Tacoma Housing Authority's McCarver Elementary School Program is highlighted. The unique program received funding from Building Changes through a Washington Families Fund Systems Innovation Grant award.
Vital state funding resource for homeless programs in jeopardy
State lawmakers are battling to find a way to pass ESHB 2368, which would prevent the sunsetting of document recording fees.
// Read more...Seasoned Leader Joins Building Changes
Declan Wynne of Sound Mental Health will join Building Changes in early February as a director.
// Read more...Hopeful progress on gun violence and homelessness
Seattle Times columnist Lance Dickie sees reason for optimism in "smart, data-driven efforts" like King County's Rapid Rehousing for Families pilot program.
