Lake City Partners Ending Homelessness

Our GLA Day Center has been serving the Lake City neighborhood for over 10 years and provides showers, laundry, a public kitchen facility, food basics, personal storage, phones, mail services, and Coffee. Lots of Coffee. In a custom built facility with a homelike coffee shop and kitchen feel we have morning and afternoon sessions that typically serve over 50 individuals each day. GLA (God's Li'l Acre) is located at 12521 33rd Ave NE and is a place for folks to just "be" in a safe and secure place. Over the years our Day Center has been deeply involved with volunteer groups and the Lake City Task Force on Homelessness. We also work with other providers who offer services such as healthcare access/medicaid sign-up, vehicle residency outreach, etc., and participate with Seattle University's school of nursing program for practicums and on-site training. For 300-400 individuals who regularly share space with us each month, our GLA Day Center is a thriving example of how a community can collaborate and combine service delivery to create meaningful impact and solutions. For many, our ability to engage and build trusted relationships becomes the basis upon which their pathways to housing begin.

Our Community Outreach work engages directly with our unhoused neighbors to begin participating in ongoing relationships. For many of our clients, this is where our work together starts as we support people on the path to shelter and housing. In 2024 we expanded our outreach work to include Housing Assistance Points. These are a schedule of geographic locations where we assure our unhoused neighbors we will be at on a regular and consistent basis to assist with housing access opportunities.