Housing and Essential Needs (HEN) offered by Yakima Neighborhood Health Services at Neighborhood Connections
Housing and Essential Needs (HEN) offered by Yakima Neighborhood Health Services at Neighborhood Connections
Housing and Essential Needs Grant Funds Grant funds can only be used to support HEN eligible clients that qualify as homeless or at-risk of homelessness. Allowable financial assistance for housing may include monthly rent, overdue rent, security deposit, and service animal deposits. Utilities assistance is limited to electricity, natural gas, sewer, water, garbage, and utility deposits. Essential Needs assistance includes help with obtaining personal health and hygiene items (such as toothpaste, shampoo, toilet paper), cleaning supplies (such as laundry and dish soap), and bus passes. Assistance cannot be provided through gift cards, vouchers, or certificates. All HEN clients are eligible to receive essential needs assistance.
Categories
Physical Address
102 South Naches Avenue, Yakima, WA 98901
Hours
M-F, 8am-5pm.
Voice
Application process
Individuals who have already applied and qualified, call Neighborhood Connections for an appointment. Those that have not applied, call the DSHS or apply for the cash assistance program online.
Fee
None.
Eligibility
Assistance is limited only to clients that have been determined by DSHS to be eligible for HEN. Yakima Neighborhood Health will verify that the client is eligible and assess the client's risk of homelessness to determine if they meet criteria for financial assistance, but financial assistance is not guaranteed; however, all clients are eligible for essential needs assistance. Housing and Essential Needs Grant Funds Criteria: - Homeless: those who are living outdoors, in buildings not meant for human habitation or buildings they have no legal right to occupy, emergency shelters, temporary housing, or fleeing domestic violence. - Substantial Risk: pay or vacate/eviction notice, utility shut-off notice, late payment notice, or certification of potential eviction. - Additional Factors: living in overcrowded housing, residence has been condemned, sudden and significant increase in utility cost, physical disabilities, chronic health issues, past institutional care, history of mental health or substance abuse issues, credit problems that preclude obtaining housing, pending foreclosure of rental property, discharged within the last 180 days from a facility (prison, mental health institution, or hospitals), or homelessness within the past 12 months. All client’s options will be assessed, such as supportive options or networks; including friends/family, church, social service agencies, or other potential housing options.
Languages
Spanish
Agency info
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
YNHS, a Community Health Center, provides comprehensive health and social services to individuals and families in Yakima County. Four locations in the Yakima Valley include medical, dental, pharmacy, behavioral health, nutrition counseling, health coverage applications, social services, and housing assistance.