Thank you Orca K-8 Penny Harvest for choosing SNG as your Grant Recipient!
We recently were awarded Orca K-8 School's Penny Harvest grant! Penny Harvest is a service-learning youth philanthropy program where youth between the ages of 4 and 18 convert their natural passion for others into action by collecting pennies and turning them into grants for community organizations. They studied community needs and organizations and chose to donate to us! Thanks Orca K-8!
"Increased GOTS Funding Helps More Folks." Central District News.
Seattle’s "Drug Market Initiative" from the Central District News
July 1 East African SPD Advisory Meeting
July 1 Southwest Precinct Advisory Council
July 8 SNG Board Meeting
July 10 North Precinct Picnic
July 13 Rainier Beach Merchants Association Meeting
July 14 East Precinct Executives Committee Meeting
July 16 Be Safe Workshop in Belltown/Denny Regrade
July 17 Bridging the Gap: 70's & 80's Old School Dance
July 21 Southeast Precinct Advisory Meeting
July 22 East Precinct Crime Prevnetion Coalition Meeting
July 24 The Good Vibe, 1-4pm, @ Lavizzo Park
August 7 Join SNG at the Seattle Storm Game!
August 28 Courtland Place and Dakota at Rainier Court Block Party and Resource Fair - For more information contact Adam at 206-725-9841
GOTS - Street Outreach
Our "Get Off The Streets" program (GOTS for short) is the culmination of a project Seattle Neighborhood Group launched in 2004 in the Central Area. In the beginning, a loose collection of service providers and SPD's community police team who came together to do street outreach to people in the area who were homeless, drug and alcohol addicted, and involved in non-violent street crime. In 2006 the GOTS project was funded by City Council, through the leadership of Nick Licata. By 2008, 60 people received services through the GOTS program.
While the focus population remains the same, we have a formal partnership now with POCAAN and SPD, and outreach is geared toward matching program participants with housing and treatment. The goal of the program is to empower participants to make a positive transition from "street life" to having a stable living environment that will support personal recovery efforts, gaining new life skills, and job preparedness.
GOTS is proud of its participants who have graduated, and would like to thank everyone who supports the program!
More about GOTS
In the summer of 2009, the GOTS project was evaluated by a team of researchers from the University of Washington. We are pleased at the thoroughness and outcome of the evaluation. Read a summary of the 2009 GOTS program evaluation. Download the full report on SNG's GOTS program.
2007 Seattle P-I article about GOTS
If you would like to join in support of the GOTS program, you are welcome to donate either by sending a check to:
Seattle Neighborhood Group
GOTS Program
1810 E. Yesler Way
Seattle, WA 98122
Or you can donate online using Paypal:
