Emergency Services

American Red Cross

Every day, in communities big and small across King and Kitsap counties, the American Red Cross is at work alleviating human suffering. When a family’s home catches fire, we provide lodging, food, comfort and more, bridging the gap between despair and hope. When a community is threatened by a disaster, we mobilize to deliver relief including shelter, nourishing meals, health services, and comfort. When a cancer patient is fighting to survive, we deliver lifesaving blood, wherever and whenever it is needed. The availability of blood and blood products can mean the difference between life and death. When a service member has an emergency and needs to reach family back home, the Red Cross helps connect them. We provide exceptional care from the day they enlist through their lives as veterans. For about 140 years, the Red Cross has helped neighbors down the street, across the country and around the world.

Website: www.redcross.org/local/wa/northwestregion

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Bainbridge Island Amateur Radio Club

Bainbridge Island Amateur Radio Club (BARC) welcomes licensed ham radio operators and unlicensed individuals interested in learning about radio communications for fun and for emergency preparedness. We offer radio operator training, including FCC-licensing preparation and examination, a weekly informal “Amateur Hour” net, monthly special interest group meetings at BARN, and a monthly breakfast meeting. BARC members provide communications for community events such as the Chilly Hilly bicycle rally, the Rotary Auction, Bainbridge Community Emergency Response Teams (BI-CERT), and the Bainbridge Emergency Operations Center. The club is affiliated with the Kitsap County Alternate Communications System (ACS), RACES, and ARES, and most Club members hold identification cards from the Kitsap County Department of Emergency Management. BARC supports the Bainbridge Island “Map Your Neighborhood” program, encouraging neighbors to become licensed hams and learn to communicate effectively during an emergency. BARC operates the W7NPC radio repeater making possible island-wide VHF and UHF amateur communications.

www.W7NPC.org

Bainbridge Island Volunteer Firefighters Association

Proudly serving Bainbridge Island since 1942, the Bainbridge Island Volunteer Firefighters Association and its membership serve our community as volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians. Our mission is to safeguard lives, property and the environment through prevention, education & emergency response. Your generous donations support firefighting, emergency medical services, rescue, public safety, disaster relief, community education, and member training.

Bainbridge Prepares

Bainbridge Prepares supports our community through communication and awareness about emergency and public health preparedness, because when we’re all connected and informed, our island thrives. A collaborative blend of individuals, organizations, and local government, Bainbridge Prepares is actively making our island more resilient. In the event of a large natural disaster like an earthquake or a public health emergency such as a pandemic, our brave first responders will be overwhelmed and we may be on our own in our neighborhoods. That’s when community is vital—neighbors helping neighbors—with everyone taking care of each other. Join your friends and neighbors to ensure our island is ready for anything; learn more at our website.

Website: bainbridgeprepares.org

BCF Community Response Fund

The BCF Community Response Fund provides financial resources to local nonprofit organizations for urgent health and human service needs serving Bainbridge Island, especially during times of economic hardship or human or natural disaster, including the COVID-19 crisis. Over the years, the CRF has supported services and programs that nurture and care for our island residents each day, providing us all with a critical safety net. Funds cover a wide range of emergency assistance to nonprofits facing unexpected emergencies, such as supporting an advocacy program for victims of domestic violence that had lost funding, replacing broken freezers with new ones at a local food bank, and repairing a septic tank so residents with developmental disabilities would not have to find temporary housing elsewhere. In 2020 alone, BCF awarded a total of $131,000 in small grants to local organizations through our CRF.

Website: www.bainbridgecf.org

Coffee Oasis

The Coffee Oasis mission is to change the world for homeless youth in one community after another through a strategic continuum of services supported by sustainable coffee businesses. Since 1997, The Coffee Oasis has provided the core services needed both to prevent homelessness and to help homeless youth 13-25 years old off the streets. We accomplish this through street outreach, drop-in centers, case management, housing, crisis intervention, mentoring, and job training.

Website: www.thecoffeeoasis.com

Kitsap Rescue Mission

Kitsap Rescue Mission (KRM) operates the only year round, low barrier, overnight shelter in Kitsap County, serving individuals from all areas of Kitsap. The Mission also operates a day room Monday through Friday. The COVID virus pandemic has severely stressed the staff and the operating budget with all the precautions, for necessary protective clothing, washing, disinfection, food provision, to keep the staff healthy while maintaining services for our guests; with the shutdown of local food services and other resources. KRM is now operating 24/7 during the COVID emergency, to keep individuals experiencing homelessness safe and sheltered. Funds are urgently needed to meet these needs and care for those who have no home to shelter in. None of this would be possible without giving from individuals like you!

Website: www.kitsaprescue.org/

YWCA Kitsap County

YWCA is the only state certified domestic violence service provider in Kitsap County – working to advance justice through direct service programs, safety planning, advocacy, case management, emergency shelter, permanent housing, criminal and civil justice court navigation, support groups, prevention, education, and community outreach. Our community and our clients are owed respect, justice, and healing. Here, a woman is empowered to leave an abusive relationship. Here, a family breaks the cycle of violence. Here, we bear witness to a survivor’s dignity, and celebrate their victories. Here, a mother and her children escape their abuser, avoid homelessness, and access safe, permanent housing. Here, community leaders learn how to interrupt the cycle of generational violence and empower young people to form healthy relationships. But we don’t do it alone. It takes a community to end domestic violence – and Kitsap County CAN interrupt the cycle.

Website: www.ywcakitsap.org