Food
Limited or uncertain access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food
What is Food Insecurity?
RCW 82.14.460
What is the Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder sales tax?
Building Resilience Against Youth Violence and Exploitations
What is BRAYVE?
City-authorized emergency shelter sites designed to provide safe, supportive housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, in partnership with local nonprofits.
What is Tacoma Emergency Micro-Shelters (TEMS)?
In 2017, the City passed this to address severe homelessness conditions, particularly in homeless encampments.
What is State of Public Health Emergency?
Area that has limited access to affordable, fresh, healthy, and nutritious food.
What is food desert?
A program intended to increase earlier identification and intervention for residents with mental illness who have contact with law enforcement.
What is TPD Co Responder?
Established in 2023 to provide a trauma-informed post-crisis service in Tacoma after a traumatic incident.
What is Community Trauma Response Team?
A state of individuals or families lacking a stable, safe, and adequate place to live.
What is Homelessness?
Sole nonprofit food distributor located in Pierce County
Who is Emergency Food Network?
Agreement with Pierce County established in 1991 to contribute to a Health Pool.
What is the Interlocal Agreement to operate Tacoma Pierce County Health Department?
An annual survey conducted in late January to measure homelessness in the county, including both sheltered and unsheltered individuals.
What is the Point-in Time (PIT) Count?
Provides fresh, healthy, and nutritious food to people in the East and South Tacoma communities.
Who is Eloise's Cooking Pot Food Bank
A pilot program to provide direct medical and behavioral health care to the unhoused population in the City of Tacoma, which includes but is not limited to unhoused people living in encampments, vehicles and other places not meant for human habitation.
What is Street Medicine?