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?
Acronym for BRAYVE
What is Building Resilience Against Youth Violence and Exploitation
City-authorized emergency shelter sites designed to provide safe, supportive housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness.
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?
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?
Young Adult Shelter and Drop-in Center has a 50-person capacity day and night that serves young adults experiencing homelessness.
What is Beacon Young Adult Shelter?
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?
This organization opened in 2005 as a safe place for survivors of domestic violence to find resources to heal and rebuild.
What is the Crystal Judson Family Justice Center?
Adding emergency shelter services for 100 or more persons by expanding their men’s wing to be a multi-story structure adjacent to the existing building
What is The Rescue Mission?
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
What is 388?
Violent or aggressive behaviour within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner
What is domestic violence?
This shelter approach minimizes requirements for entry and aims to make shelter accessible to people who might otherwise have challenges accessing service.
What is a low-barrier shelter?
This federally required local planning body coordinates housing, funding and services for people experiencing homelessness.
What is a Continuum of Care?
Within the City of Tacoma, 16.3% of households, or 14,973 homes, receive this federal program's nutritional benefits.
What is SNAP?
According to the American Community Survey, this percentage of Tacoma residents lacks medical insurance.
7.2%
This collaborative group brings together youth serving organizations to discuss best practices, share resources, and support system improvements for vulnerable young people in Tacoma.
What is the BRAYVE Multidisciplinary Team Meeting?
Homeless service providers use this shared information system to record client and service data, helping communities to understand homelessness and evaluate the performance of the homelessness response system.
What is HMIS (Homeless Management Information System)?
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?