Lifelong Health For All

Food and nutrition:lifelong's food program improves the quality of life and reduced medical costs for people living with chronic illnesses such as end stage renal disease, cancers, hiv, and cardiovascular disease. Services include grocery bags, meals (which meet american heart association and american diabetes association guidelines), nutritional counseling, and cooking classes created especially for seniors. In calendar year 2024, chicken soup brigade distributed 177,499 meals tailored to the medical and cultural needs of clients along with 33,676 bags of groceries to 2,057 clients in king and snohomish counties.

Housing:lifelong serves as the only housing referral and placement specifically for people living with hiv in king county. Lifelong provided nearly 238 clients with housing subsidies, or assistance. The services we provide include medical respite, emergency motel, transitional housing, permanent housing, short term rental/mortgage/utility assistance to prevent homelessness, and permanent housing placement (financial) assistance. We paid out $2,265,393 in some form of housing assistance payments during the year.

Medical case management:in 2024, lifelong's case managers supported the health of 1,825 hiv positive clients by connecting them to health care resources. Medical case managers conduct a comprehensive assessment of 14 life domains, including mental health, substance abuse, healthcare coverage, housing, employment, financial, relationships, medical, spiritual, and psychosocial needs. Upon completion of the assessment, medical case managers work with clients to resolve any barriers to medication adherence and to fulfill other basic needs. Many clients in medical case management require additional support and services. The high acuity response team (hart) team responds to these needs by providing peer support, quick response, and psychosocial support services to our highest acuity clients. These clients generally suffer chemical dependency, serious mental health challenges, and homelessness. This program is the lowest ratio for case manager to client to provide intensive case management support. We served 3 clients in the hart program in 2024.oral health:the oral health program at lifelong is the first successful dental program in the tga in more than a decade. The program works as the administering agency, responsible for recruiting oral health providers, facilitating the contract process with public health, scheduling initial appointments with clients, receiving, reviewing and approving claims, and developing, implementing and enforcing program policies and procedures. The program served 1,145 hiv+ clients and facilitated payment for almost 3,017 dental appointments in 2024aging and disability services:aging and disability services provides medicaid case management services to aged and/or disabled clients through a thorough assessment to determine and authorize care-giving hours that enable the beneficiaries to remain in the residence of their choice and avoid living in a nursing facility. In 2024, the program served 1,365 clients in king county.employment program:the lifelong employment program serves clients enrolled in the housing program at lifelong. Lifelong is a worksource affiliate and partners with several key agencies to provide training, referral, and job search assistance. The program had a staff of one person and served 27 clients in 2024.