Non-Profits

Give to Heal is a nonprofit dedicated to funding wellness and holistic services that help women heal from trauma. Give to Heal contracts with culturally competent, trauma-informed practitioners whom women seeking help might not otherwise be able to afford. Access to healing services allows the residue of trauma to safely surface and be released through a variety of physical, mental, and energetic channels. In a safe and collaborative environment, therapeutic modalities like acupuncture, reflex-therapy, yoga, and massage can positively transform the lives of survivors. In order to serve more women and expand our network of trauma-informed, holistic healing arts practitioners who have the skills, sensitivity, and passion to work with this population, we respectfully and gratefully ask for your donation.

Website: www.givetoheal.love

A retired engineer, Joel Adamson founded Kitsap Homes of Compassion in 2017. The mission of KHOC is to provide safe, affordable, and permanent housing solutions with comprehensive support services for those who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity. Rooms in 3-to-6 bedroom homes are sublet to folks experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity for an affordable fee including wifi and utilities ($775 single/$1225 master) after creating a master lease with homeowners. KHOC has expanded to be a property manager for 26 homes across Kitsap County (including Bainbridge Island!) with Permanent Supportive Housing and transitional WAQRR accredited Recovery Home models, and offers Housing Support Services with a Housing First grant from the Washington Health Care Authority and the Foundational Community Supports program. KHOC also has a Mental Health Program available for residents and people in the Housing Supports Program, with services that include counseling and care planning.

Website: kitsaphoc.org

Kitsap Mental Health Services offers hope and opportunity to 5,000 community members each year by providing compassionate, recovery-centered behavioral health care. Our dedicated staff members are experts in delivering a broad continuum of mental health and substance use disorder treatment for all ages. Services include crisis, inpatient, outpatient and residential treatment and services, with each designed to best support an individual’s recovery. We know recovery happens because we see it every day at our facilities in Bremerton, South Kitsap and North Kitsap. They include: the Crisis Triage Center for adults who need 24/7 care but do not require hospitalization; Pacific Hope and Recovery Center, which provides residential care for adults with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders, and Pendleton Place, which opened in March 2022 and is providing permanent, assistive housing for 72 chronically homeless individuals with severe mental illness, substance abuse disorders and chronic health conditions.

Website: www.kitsapmentalhealth.org

We provide financial assistance to Seattle Children’s Medical Unit patients and families needing emergency assistance with food, transportation, housing or other critical needs as determined by Seattle Children’s staff.

Our daughter, Meg Reynolds-Gooch, during eight years as a nurse on the Medical Unit, effected calmness, joy, healing among her patients. A long-distance runner, Meg did not allow cancer to define her or how she lived her life. Cancer was an uninvited obstacle presenting hurdles that she literally ran through and flew over with infinite grace, strength, resilience. Meg never dipped in zest for life overflowing with adventure, laugher, love. Her colleagues called her the “baby whisperer” for her special gift nursing sick children that left permanent imprints on innumerable lives—patients, families, co-workers. Nurse Meg’s Beacon of Joy Endowment, annually distributing 4.5% of its value, honors Meg’s words from our last conversation: “I want to be remembered as a beacon of joy.”

Website: http://give.seattlechildrens.org/nursemeg

Peaceful Morning Farm’s mission is to raise organic food for those in need, raise awareness of food insecurity, cultivate knowledge of sustainable agriculture, and foster community on Bainbridge Island. On .62 acres of public land leased from the City of Bainbridge Island at the historic Morales Farm, we grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables with all volunteer labor. One hundred percent of the food is distributed to Helpline House and other local food banks or given to farm volunteers. Our food provides free access to fresh, organic produce to nearly 1,500 individuals every year. Our volunteers are all ages and abilities, and learn principles of sustainable agriculture in a fun, collaborative environment. As a newly formed non-profit, we are striving to strengthen the farm’s capacity and potential for long-term success, provide more learning opportunities about growing food, and increase food production.

Website: peacefulmorningfarm.org

Improving lives and restoring hope, together we move forward. That’s West Sound Treatment Center’s motto and how we conduct the business of providing treatment and services to people struggling with substance use disorders. We don’t just wait for people to come to us – we have programs that reach out to unhoused and/or incarcerated members of the community to determine what they need, and then we help them to meet those needs through case management, housing, education, job placement, and court-involved services so that they can become healthy, whole, and productive. Our office in Poulsbo serves Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap, and we also have Bremerton and Port Orchard locations, with counselors who work in the courts and the jail, as well. Supporting treatment defeats addiction!

Website: www.westsoundtreatmentcenter.org