- Public Benefits are Key! Food Benefits – September 13th, 2023Welcome to our FIRST-EVER Training on Food Benefits! You asked for it, and we heard you, providers! We had the pleasure of offering our very first Public Benefits are Key! Training on Food Benefits, led by the expert team from Solid Ground’s Benefits Legal Assistance Team: In this very special training, the Benefits Legal Assistance …
- General Membership Meeting – September 21st, 2023Welcome Back, Members! We hope everyone has been soaking up the last rays of summer before fall begins. While we did not hold a General Membership Meeting in August, that does not mean we were at the beach! While more placid than most months, our August was spent onboarding new staff, planning new training opportunities …
- Helping Students Experiencing Homelessness (McKinney-Vento) Training – August 1st, 2023Thanks for supporting our K-12 students experiencing homelessness! Welcome back to our annual training on understanding the McKinney-Vento Act and serving K-12 students experiencing homelessness! In this year’s training, we covered a number of topics, including: In our Resource Fair, we heard from so many of our community partners that serve homeless youth, including: For …
- General Membership Meeting – July 20th, 2023Welcome Back, Members! As we are taking much needed time away to enjoy our summer, know that our monthly General Membership Meetings are still a place for important information exchange to serve our community members experiencing homelessness. In this meeting, we discussed: To review our meeting in full, check out our recording on YouTube. Updates …
- Important Update: Help the folks you work with keep their Medicaid or Medicare coverage! As the Public Health Emergency ends, up to 300,000 Washington residents could lost their coverage.Context: From 2020 to early this year, eligibility reviews were suspended for people who use public benefits like Apple Health (Medicaid). This temporary policy change allowed stability and access to health care for many people during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. What’s happening now: Starting in early 2023, the “unwinding” of the Public Health …
