Service Saturday

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Learn and Serve

Participants in the reSTART program dedicate one Saturday every month to serving in the community. Participants research various volunteering opportunities available in the Puget Sound area and make selections on where they’d like to serve based on personal interests and community needs. Participants have the option of counting their hours towards the President’s Volunteer Service Award.

Some of the places we volunteer include:

Mamas Hands Phone Home Program

provides an innovative opportunity for the homeless to contact their families. Armed with cellular phones, Denny and Mamma’s Hands volunteers take the Mamma’s Hands’ bus to downtown Seattle. Once there, the phones are distributed among the homeless, allowing them to contact their families and perhaps arrange a way to return home. To date, Mamma’s Hands have reunited hundreds of individuals with their families.

House of Hope

provides a safe and secure 24-hour living environment for women and children in crisis. Patterned after the nationally recognized St. Martin De Porres Shelter in Chicago and operating under “tough love” principles, the house provides training, counseling, and education to the residents. This helps the resident women break away from the cycle of dependency and realize a future which is positive and self-sustaining. Ultimately, the mothers who choose to put there children’s needs first and commit to a new and better pattern of life are helped in the transition to independent living with much of the follow up services being provided naturally by the new community of families and friends that they become a positive, functional part of.

Issaquah Food Bank

offers food and clothing to those in need in the local community.

Habitat for Humanity – Snoqualmie

Habitat for Humanity is a grassroots volunteer driven organization. Since our affiliate’s founding by Bob and Shirley Patterson in 1988, Habitat for Humanity of East King County has built 86 homes in East King County. Our service area is from Issaquah to Bothell and East to North Bend. The goal of this affiliate is to make it possible for low-income Eastside residents to be able to purchase simple decent affordable homes. We are currently building homes in the Issaquah Highlands and Snoqualmie.