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About The Villagemission
Casino Road neighbors access resources, connect with their community, and meet their dreams and aspirations here.
The Village is a community center that is consistently centering our community in all dialogues and actions.
vision
Be a place of empowerment, for education, to connect, for culture, for celebrations, to belong, to dream, to aspire.
values
- Centering Social Justice and Anti-Racism
- Inclusiveness and Collaboration
- Restorative Practices
- Multi-Generational Approaches
- Trauma-Informed Approaches
how The Village Circle accomplishes it
We co-locate culturally responsive and community-based organizations in one convenient and welcoming location.
We intentionally build relationships and collaborate across a dozen organizations at the Village to coordinate responses.
We thoughtfully build relationships and collaborate with the youth and families in our community to ensure community ownership and leadership of everything that happens here.
We center social justice and build on anti-racist practices so that we may serve those who are furthest from justice in our community.
We create spaces (literally and figuratively!) for our community to experience joy, build relationships, celebrate culture, and engage in artistic expression.
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average number of people who walk in to The Village & inquire about services every week
families helped by The Village Coordinator since the start of the pandemic
Madres De Casino Road
- Food bank (March 2020-April 2021): served 10, 790 families (55,878 people)
- Latino Youth Kitchen (March to June 2021) warm meals provided to: 1,973 individuals
Vaccine Clinic
150+ people vaccinated!
Classes Held
- 10+ Financial Literacy
- 75+ GED
- 270+ ESL
Hot Meals
Casino Road Kid Ministries
- Book Mobile provided books to 80+ local children in 2022
- Homework Club 2022: homework support and snacks to 22 children over the year so far
VOAWW Foodbank
Since starting summer 2020-2021:
- Served over 7,000 families. Thats over 30,000 people!
- Over 33,000 pounds of food distributed.
- Over 3,000 households were provided with diapers.
The DACA Coalition
- Has helped more than 150 community members with a free consultation.
- Provided nearly $15,000 for 30 applicants in financial assistance to cover the $495 application fee.
Technology Training Program 2021
- We serviced 56 families (equivalently 89 students)
- 39.6% of families were serviced in Spanish
- Issues addressed: Schoology 68.7%, Zoom 33.3%, Laptop/Hardware Issue 8.3%
Note: the sum is greater than 100% because more than one topic could be covered in a session (e.g., both Schoology and Zoom)
ChildStrive
From Jan-July 2022, 36 households in the 98204 zipcode received financial assistance from Snohomish County with Federal ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds administered by ChildStrive staff.
ChildStrive
July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022, 98204 zip code only:
- 22 AFAR families received culturally & linguistically matched mental health counseling to promote secure attachment & family wellness
- Nurse Family Partnership: 45 women received nurse home-visiting services to support their own health, & the health of their babies
- Parents as Teachers: 15 families received home-visiting services to support their child’s learning, early relational health, & cope with family stressors
ChildStrive
July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022, 98204 zip code only:
- Early Supports for Infants & Toddler: 150 children received therapeutic home-visiting services to further their developmental progress
- 24 Kaleidoscope Play and Learn Groups were held either at the Village on Casino Road while families could also watch virtually on ChildStrive’s Facebook page (9 groups), or held virtually prior to the groups going back in-person (15 groups)
ChildStrive
July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022, 98204 zip code only:
- 2 Spanish language Circle of Security Parenting Groups and 2 Spanish language PEPS groups for parents of young children met on Casino Road
- Nurse Family Partnership: 48 women received nurse home-visiting services to support their own health, and the health of their babies
- ECEAP Clever Sprouts Preschool: served about 40 families in the past year, the majority of these live in the Casino Road neighborhood
For me, it was an opportunity for my children to find friends and for me to be able to talk with other adults. Sometimes having young children makes it difficult to find adults to talk to because you hardly have time. For me, it was a safe place and I liked it because it was in Spanish and other children were close in age to my children. We played, we sang, and we even ate because we took turns bringing bread, fruit. They gave us coffee. There we found friends who until now are part of our life and almost family. Even though my children are teenagers, we always remember those times. In 2010, in collaboration with ARC of Snohomish and Little Red, Padres Unidos was formed, a group for parents who spoke Spanish and who had a child with special needs to find support, resources, and guidance.
My family and I value family / togetherness / support / willingness to serve others / love.
What I value the most is support, because we have to help each other.
For me, knowing that I had a child with special needs was very hard but finding someone to advise me, guide me, with whom I could cry, laugh or receive recommendations from experts or other services was very encouraging and helped me a lot to be able to empower myself and be able to do the same for others later and be able to get to where I can now say I am much better.
I love to see how Casino Road has changed for the better. There is help for people who need food, want to get their GED / early childhood support, and classes in various things especially making everyone feel welcome for English / Spanish speakers. I think it’s a good start. I would like for other minorities/immigrants to feel the same way. Engage with other minorities who live on Casino Road and make welcome signs in their language so that they too can come in and feel supported.”
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