This guide is designed to help transgender individuals understand their legal rights in Washington State.
This guide is designed to help transgender individuals understand their legal rights in Washington State.
Hopelink offers financial assistance, food assistance, energy assistance, employment services, transitional & long-term housing, transportation, adult education, and more.
The SWCSL is staffed by current and former sex workers who provide peer support and resource referrals to members of the community. They network with other groups to help sex workers access food, clothing, shelter, legal aid, and other resources. They also specialize in serving people who are being released from detainment for prostitution charges by providing support, a phone, transportation, and other gap services.
The phone number for the SWCSL is 877-776-2004. They also operate a chat function, the Web Chat for Support (WCFS). The WCFS is hosted on several sex worker resource websites, such as www.swopusa.org and www.swopbehindbars.org. They also host a chat function on their website, www.swcsl.org.
“Our legal professionals provide a wide variety of services, including direct representation & education. Our areas of impact are poverty law, housing, and gender-based violence.
We provide by-and-for resources for Black trans people in collaboration with community partners in order to broaden safety nets and increase avenues for justice that are typically available for white trans people.”
Support for incarcerated LGBTQ+ people in the Pacific Northwest: case management for re-entry/housing/advocacy/legal services, re-entry program, advocacy/activism, pen-pals, and leadership groups.
Provides re-entry housing and support for men and trans women. Includes housing program, vocational skills training, work skill training, and spiritual guidance.
“Aileen’s exists to enhance well-being and self-determination of women and others who engage in the sex trades in south King County, Washington and surrounding areas.”
“Operates much like a day shelter offering clothing, hygiene, laundry, restrooms,” and food to be a social space as a “neighborhood living room”.
“Chief Seattle Club is a 501(c)(3) registered organization dedicated to physically and spiritually supporting American Indian and Alaska Native people. At our Day Center in the Pioneer Square district of downtown Seattle, we provide food, primary health care, housing assistance, legal services, a Native art job training program, and opportunities for members to engage in cultural community-building.”
Community Security Program (CSP) is Gender Justice League’s direct support program providing services to Two-Spirit, Trans, and Gender Diverse survivors of gender-based violence and crime who are located in or relocating to Washington State. CSP offers temporary shelter coordination, flexible financial assistance, resource navigation support, and safety planning.
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“We help people achieve well-being, health and stability through these services:
“Lambert House is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth ages 10-22. Our calendar is packed with fun activities, support groups, planning meetings, dances, and other events. Lambert House is where LGBTQ youth make life better for each other.
Come see what we are all about! Everyday, approximately 20-40 youth visit us. The drop-in center has large living rooms with a pool table, a music station for tunes, a library with LGBTQ books, TV, games, computer lab, and people to talk with about anything on your mind.”
“Northwest Youth Services is a non-profit organization serving young people ages 13-24 experiencing homelessness in Whatcom and Skagit Counties. … [NWYS] offers housing, street outreach, help finding a job or enrolling in school, connection to mental health services, support for LGBTQ youth, restorative justice for juvenile offenders, and referrals to other services in the community.”
Union for rental housing tenants.