Give Generously to St. Vincent de Paul
Thousands of people in our local communities in King County are struggling to find work, housing and other services to help them achieve self-sufficiency. We have a Case Management program that helps people gain the knowledge, skills, education, and confidence to make positive changes to move toward self-sufficiency.
With your support, we can dramatically increase our capability to serve more individuals and families with case management services.
ST. VINCENT de PAUL PROFESSIONALS: WORKING FOR RESULTS
Your donations will allow our team of Case Managers to offer long and short term help to enable people to overcome barriers that perpetuate poverty including histories of addiction, unemployment, incarceration, mental illness, inadequate education and lack of affordable housing.
EVIDENCE-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT
Our Case Managers utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing, evidence- based approaches to case management that demonstrate proven results in generating positive participant outcomes. These therapies focus on changing an individual’s negative thoughts into more positive thinking, creating constructive behavioral patterns and outcomes with the goal of self-sufficiency.
WE PROVIDE SOCIAL SUPPORT SERVICES
Case Managers also arrange for other services including motel vouchers, bus tickets, food, union dues, footwear, beds, and other aid. With your help, we solicit in-kind assistance from Food Lifeline, King County Metro Transit and other partners, and this ensures that Case Managers have these resources.
THRIFT STORE CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Donors have supported St. Vincent de Paul starting an initiative to move our Case Management services into our network of five thrift stores around County. This strategy will help make case management services more readily available, sustainable and practical to those who need help.
OPERATION VETERAN RENEWAL HELPS VETS TRANSITION TO CIVILIAN LIFE
Operation Veteran Renewal tailors case management services to help each veteran successfully transition to civilian life. Your donations will help Veterans with PTSD and system navigation, assisting them to become employable, find housing, get education and other services they need.
CENTRO RENDU HELPS HISPANIC NEIGHBORS WITH CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Thanks to very generous donor support, Centro Rendu in Kent, a Case Management and Education Resource Center was started by St. Vincent de Paul for the Latino community in South King County. Centro Rendu serves hundreds of people in need, helping them to break the cycle of poverty through its new center, and from other community resources.
CREATE NEW BEGINNINGS
Your donation will assist needy neighbors with Case Management services designed to help them access benefits, secure employment, permanent housing, education and other services that lead to self-sufficiency.
Maria, one of our Centro Rendu clients, has been the recipient of SVDP services and is now headed toward independence:
Maria was born in Mexico and came to the United States 14 years ago, moving to Washington State in the fall of 2011. She is married and has three children between the ages of nine years and two months. She began her education training with Centro Rendu, St.Vincent de Paul’s Hispanic Educational program in the summer of 2013.
Her focus has been on ESL classes, math and social studies and her English is progressing. SVdP was also able to assist Maria’s family to avoid eviction through an emergency grant, enabling them to get on their feet and continue their education.
She has also received marriage counseling and groceries from our Food Bank. Her goal is to strengthen her English, get her GED, and attend Seattle Central Community College. Her longer term goal is to work in social services and help others.
HOW CAN MY DONATION HELP?
Please take a moment to reflect on what you have been given in this life…then share a little bit of that gift with others. Please be generous with your gift to St. Vincent de Paul.
$25 pays for a disabled bus pass for one month.
$50 provides new interview clothing for individuals seeking employment
$100 pays for three months lodging at the YMCA.
$200 provides a new bed for people entering housing
$500 helps an unemployed veteran remain in housing for one month
$1,000 houses two domestic violence survivors in a motel for three to five weeks.
WHY GIVE TO ST. VINCENT DE PAUL?
We are local, so your donations stay here to help neighbors. We are efficient stewards of the funds donated to us, with about 90 cents of every $1 donated going to programs. We have been compassionately helping people in King County since 1920.We are also green, having been a long time recycler since 1926.
- The St. Vincent de Paul Help Line Call Center assists over 40,000 callers a year.
- Crisis Clinic 2-1-1 Line refers over 25,000 emergency calls to St. Vincent de Paul, more than any of the 1,700 social service agencies in King County.
- Five thrift stores & property revenues cover all of agency overhead.
- We serve everyone & invite everyone to volunteer.
- We have been a pioneer and leader in recycling since 1926, now recycling over 2,000,000 pounds per year.
- Helped with “clean-up” of Lake Union in 1964.