Chief Seattle Club
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- Mission
- from website: The Chief Seattle Club is a 501(c)3 registered organization dedicated to physically and spiritually supporting American Indian and Alaska Native people. At our center in the Pioneer Square district of downtown Seattle, we provide food, medical support, housing assistance, computer training, the Urban Indian Legal Clinic, a Native art program and gallery, weekly Kateri Circle Mass, frequent outings to tribes, pow wows, and museums, and much, much more. Please explore what we do in these articles, and please consider supporting our work by following the donation links in the main menu.
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What we do As a human service provider, the Chief Seattle Club is the only organization to connect homeless and low-income Native people to distant reservations, cultures, languages, and even to relatives living in this area.
•Basic Needs: Meals, showers, laundry, clothing and furniture donations, eyeglasses, bus passes, hygiene items, health care via Seattle Indian Health Board and KC Public Health.
•Housing: Assisting members into shelters, providing help to move to transitional and permanent residences, financial assistance for move-in costs and assistance for eviction prevention.
•Education: Rental Readiness training, job readiness, computer training, professional mentoring via a partnership with the city’s Title V program helping seniors move back into the workforce.
•Individual Support Services: Access to drug and alcohol treatment facilities, access to public benefits via DSHS, Evergreen Treatment Services caseworkers, and specialized legal assistance through the Urban Indian Legal Clinic.
•Cultural Programs: Native Art Program and Gallery, Women’s Justice Circle, Gathering Circle Offerings, monthly Swinomish Retreat, weekly Kateri Circle Mass, and frequent outings to tribes, pow wows, and museums.
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