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Helen
Keller Northwest |
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Deaf Blind Service Center |
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The Helen Keller National Center
for Deaf-Blind (HKNC) offers intensive and comprehensive rehabilitation
training to individuals who are Deaf-Blind. One of ten regional centers,
Helen Keller Northwest is part of HKNC, and more than forty affiliated
programs, a national training team, technical assistance center,
and older adults programs.
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The Deaf-Blind Service Center is
committed to assisting Deaf-Blind People in reaching and maintaining
their highest possible quality of life and degree of personal autonomy.
The Deaf-Blind Service Center addresses the needs of Deaf-Blind adults
and their families by providing the following services:
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elderwise |
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Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition
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We aim to improve the quality of
life of area seniors; helping to enhance and prolong the independence
of this under-served population by providing healthy food, exercise,
and intellectual and creative stimulation, in a respectful, non-institutional
environment. |
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WROC is made up of low income and
poverty allies whose purpose is to empower low income people to impact
welfare policy where it is made and where it is implemented. |
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League of Women Voters of Seattle |
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Northwest Health Law Advocates |
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The League of Women Voters of Seattle
(LWVS) is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the
informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences
public policy through education and advocacy.
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Northwest Health Law Advocates
promotes
increased access to health care and basic health care rights and
protections for all individuals through legal and policy advocacy,
education and support to community organizations in the Pacific Northwest. |
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Not in our name |
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powerful voices |
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Not in Our Name is a nationwide
project opposed to endless war on the world, detention and round-ups
of immigrants, and police state restrictions. They hold weekly meetings,
organize events and protest marches, and rally people of conscience
to speak out against war.
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Powerful Voices instills leadership
skills, fosters the development of critical thinking, and promotes
the individual
potential in adolescent girls. They offer innovative, evidence-based
programming in Seattle public middle schools, as well as in and out
of juvenile detention. |
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Seattle Community Law Center |
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Seattle Human Services Coalition |
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The Seattle Community Law Center
(SCLC) is committed to advocating to end poverty and the oppression
and exclusion of communities of limited economic means. |
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The Seattle Human Services Coalition
is a multi-racial, multi-cultural community of human service providers
and concerned individuals committed to meeting basic human needs
of Seattle-King County residents.
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