As National Volunteer Week comes to end, we’re grateful for the countless hours, warm smiles, and immense kindness that our volunteers have contributed to make our work possible.

13-year-old Audrey wanted to make a difference for other kids in her community through her Mitzvah project, what she didn’t expect was to kick off a chain of support for the Mary’s Place Make-a-Home program by inspiring her peers!

Our Mary's Place Girl Scout troop #40103 is excited to be selling cookies again this year! Their goal is to sell 2,000 boxes of cookies, with proceeds going towards an AWESOME camping trip being planned by the scouts! Check out dates and times!

Both Roxanne and Victoria are enjoying the autonomy they have in their own space. Victoria loves to cook and grilled up her first steak recently, and Roxanne is so happy using her own key to open her own door!

We're excited to share the new Mary's Place brand, updated to reflect the evolution of our services for women and families, including our new mission statement!

Service dog Latte often joins Nurse Jeanne at work at Mary’s Place. Jeanne says, “one of Latte’s future jobs may be as a Facility Service Dog, where she’ll bring smiles and love to those she interacts with.” Latte certainly does that at Mary’s Place where she spreads good cheer to guests and staff alike.

Mary’s Place Outreach Manager, Grace Polanco, works with families in our community who are currently unsheltered and living in cars and tents to help them back into stable housing. Grace shares her story and dives into what brought her to do this important work at Mary’s Place.

Rachel and Jackson Smith (not their real names) have four children between the ages of 11 and 19. Jackson uses a wheelchair as a result of a stroke. Mary's Place helped the Smiths move to a new home in early 2019. Rachel was working then but lost her job as a school bus driver when schools closed due to COVID-19. Unless we act quickly to prevent homelessness with assistance programs scaled to meet the need, thousands of families like the Smiths will face homelessness.

We are heartbroken by the murder of George Floyd, the latest death of a Black man by police. We stand with him, his family, and the Black community as we mourn.

For the last 16 years, Bastyr University’s Clinical Program has been working with Mary’s Place to provide medical care to women at the Women’s Day Center with the use of naturopathic medicine.