Credit Counseling offered by InCharge Debt Solutions
Offers telephone and online confidential budget counseling, debt management and financial education programs to financially distressed consumers. Offers additional support to veterans and active military and provides home pre-purchasing and foreclosure prevention counseling.
InCharge Debt Solutions is a national non-profit credit counseling agency offering confidential budget counseling, debt management, housing counseling, bankruptcy counseling and financial education programs to consumers, including military personnel serving overseas.
Budgeting Class offered at Arlington Community Resource Center
A one-time group class for individuals who wish to learn more about money management, finances, and budgeting. Class typically lasts for one hour and participants receive a certificate upon completion. No child care is available.
A one-time group class for individuals who wish to learn more about money management, finances, and budgeting. Class typically lasts for one hour and participants receive a certificate upon completion. No child care is available. Call for dates and times.
Student Support Services offered by United Way Benefits Hub at Green River College
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Offers Zoom and in-person appointments.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Online Money Management Classes offered at City of Ellensburg's Public Library
Provides free online money management classes.
Provides free online money management classes.
Offers various topics such as:
- Money Talks: Teaches how to be safe with your money
- Where Credit Is Due: helps gain access to your credit reports
- Feeling Taxed?: Helps with tips to safely file electronically
- You Can Bank On It: teaches electronic banking, including mobile apps
- Fit The Bill: Fast, safe, and easy options for managing monthly bills electronically
- Let's Go Shopping: Provides information about using online coupon codes, review, and competitive offers
- Make a Buck: Teaches how to sell stuff online
- Save A Bundle: Learn secrets on saving hundreds of dollars through online Extreme Couponing
Student Support Services offered by United Way Benefits Hub at North Seattle College
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Zoom and in-person appointments available.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Education - Personal/Family Enrichment offered at Fleet and Family Support - Snohomish County
Provides regularly scheduled workshops and other educational programs designed to help people learn skills such as parenting, stress management, marital communication, and financial management.
Provides regularly scheduled workshops and other educational programs designed to help people learn skills such as parenting, stress management, marital communication, and financial management. Other topics are available upon request. Presentations are also made at General Military Training (GMT) on request.
Helps families to break out of poverty by providing money management, financial coaching, one-on-one coaching, and life skills classes for at least one year. Budget coaches available in Spanish.
Emerge provides wholistic help through four different pathways: Core Classes, Dream & Achieve, Basic Mentoring, and TEAM. These pathways offer free classes with the opportunity to learn essential skills, navigate relationships, and grow as a person. Kids Program is available to families in Dream & Achieve, Basic Mentoring, and TEAM.
Call for more information.
Money Management offered at Navy-Marine Relief Corps
Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Assists active and retired Navy and Marine Corps members, and their eligible family members, to achieve financial self-sufficiency. Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Credit Building Workshop offered at Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners SNAP
Learn how to understand and access credit reports, increase credit scores, establish good credit, and how to deal with collection agencies in this 2-hour workshop. Register through the SNAP website. Located at Fifth & Stone, inside Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center.
Financial empowerment workshops to help people learn to understand money, debt, and credit information.
Student Support Services offered by United Way Benefits Hub at University of Washington/Cascadia College Bothell
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Zoom and in-person appointments available.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Money Management offered at Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society - Snohomish County
Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Assists active and retired Navy and Marine Corps members, and their eligible family members, to achieve financial self-sufficiency. Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Provides a comprehensive family, career, and education-based approach to help students with 1:1 Coaching, Job Search & Retention, Life & Family skills, Money Management, and Vocational or Continuing education preparation.
Offers classes and referrals for people who want to change the direction of their lives but lack the resources to do so. The program follows a comprehensive family, career, and education-based approach to help students with 1:1 Coaching, Job Search & Retention, Life & Family skills, Money Management, and Vocational or Continuing education preparation.
Student Support Services offered by United Way Benefits Hub at Bellevue College
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Offers in-person and Zoom appointments.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Financial Assessments and Workshops offered at Nuestras Raices Sin Miedo al Éxito
Sin Miedo al Éxito is an economic development program that focuses on supporting individuals with financial literacy, as well as current and potential small business owners within marginalized groups. Financial subjects that are covered at workshops or individual appointments are: Car loans, interest rates, credit score, collections, how to open a bank account, ITIN services, and more. Offers individual and business financial assessments to create an action plan to improve finances.
Sin Miedo al Éxito is an economic development program that focuses on supporting individuals with financial literacy, as well as current and potential small business owners within marginalized groups. Homing in on the specific needs of each business or idea, in order to execute a tailored plan that will help their growth.
Financial Readiness Program - FRP offered at Community Service - JBLM
Provides budget development, education and guidance to help Service members and their families achieve personal financial readiness. Offers classes on financial planning, money management, credit, insurance, and consumer rights.
Provides budget development, education and guidance to help Service members and their families achieve personal financial readiness.
Offers classes on financial planning, money management, credit, insurance, and consumer rights.
Financial Opportunity Center offered at Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region - Milgard Work Opportunity Center
Offers a Financial Opportunity Center that provides integrated services through Workforce Development, Financial Coaching, and Income Supports. A team of coaches works closely with the family over a three year period. Text "FOC Register" to 565-12.
Offers individuals and households the ability to build financial stability and self-sufficiency for their unique situation. Offers these services as part of the Centers for Strong Families network
FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY CENTER (FOC) SERVICES:
1. Integrated coaching services;
- Employment coaching: Job readiness, employment training, and assistance looking for job are essential parts of what is offered at a Financial Opportunity Center site. A job and opportunities for advancement are the platform that supports a family's financial well-being, and employment services are the initial reason many clients begin working with an FOC.
- Financial Coaching: helps clients do a better job in how they handle their money. The goal is for a family to examine their savings and spending habits to see if they can make positive changes that improve their credit scores and stabilize and grow their assets. Income Supports access can be crucial for giving a worker the time and income necessary to fulfill training to reach a better paying position and career. Coaches helps clients work through the disjointed network of public benefits and helps individuals access all of the services and supports for which they are eligible.
2. Financial Education: Every individual has a unique situation and the ability to build financial stability and self-sufficiency. Our Financial Education course offers the tools to help you achieve your financial goals. Improving credit, paying off student loans, working to own a home and planning for retirement are some of the many topics covered in our no-cost training for our community.
- Tacoma Public Utility low-income customers may qualify to receive up to an $160 credit for completing our Financial Education program and attending a Financial coaching session.
3. Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA): the VITA program provides free Federal tax return preparation to households with income under $65,000. VITA sites prepare current years taxes by appointment only, and may prepare up to 3 years back tax return upon request and limited by availability.
Goodwill's Financial Opportunity Center® is supported by United Way of Pierce County & the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Financial Coaching offered at PIM Savvy in Bellevue
Provides free, customized financial guidance on budgeting, credit management, banking, financial goal setting, resume writing, job searching, and assistance applying for jobs. Call or visit website for an appointment.
Provides one-on-one financial coaching and mentoring. Services include customized financial guidance on budgeting, credit management, banking, financial goal setting, resume writing, job searching, and assistance applying for jobs.
Services are available in person or virtual.
Financial Assistance Information/Military Families offered at Fleet and Family Support - Snohomish County
Financial assistance information is available at the Family Service Center. Services include budget review, individual financial counseling, and budget analysis.
Financial assistance information is available at the Family Service Center. Services include budget review, individual financial counseling, and budget analysis. Financial education programs are presented on a regular basis for military personnel and their family members. The Financial Specialist is available for General Military Training presentations on request.
Community Services offered at Community Action Partnership
Provides various services to help people meet basic needs and stabilize their family, either directly as resources are available, or through linkages to other community-board services.
Provides various services to help people meet basic needs and stabilize their family, either directly as resources are available, or through linkages to other community-board services. The low-income energy assistance is provided once a year to families and individuals in need who meet the income requirements, and other assistance with energy costs may also be available. Services may include: energy assistance (electric, gas, propane, and wood, when funding permits); gas vouchers or free transit bus passes; lodging / motel vouchers; and food referrals (provides referrals to a local food banks and food pantries for food). People who want to improve circumstances and exit poverty can become equipped through the Future Story Initiative, essential skills training and financial and family-centered coaching.
Directions in Community Living offered at Renew in Moses Lake
Provides residential and day program services for citizens with developmental disabilities.
Provides residential and day program services for citizens with developmental disabilities. Offers 24-hour available staff that supports people in their home.
Support Services:
- Money Management
- Budgeting
- Personal Hygiene
- Social Skills Building
- Food/Nutrition Planning
- Transportation
- Medical Support
- Affordable Housing
- Laundry
- Housekeeping
- Exploring Resources
- Shopping
- Community Connections
- Community Integration
- Positive Relationships
Stable Families Program offered at Vine Maple Place
Provides stabilization assistance for single-parent families and pregnant women in imminent danger of becoming homeless. Provides rent assistance, employment services and housing case management.
Provides housing stabilization assistance for single-parent families and pregnant women who are in imminent danger of becoming homeless and who live in Maple Valley and cities within a nine-mile radius.
Provides the following services as the family grows to stability:
- Rent assistance
- Housing case management
- Employment services
- Financial budgeting
- Life skills classes
- Child and youth case management
- Counseling
Student Support Services offered by United Way Benefits Hub at Highline College
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Zoom and in-person appointments available.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Student Support Services offered by United Way Benefits Hub at Shoreline Community College
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Zoom and in-person appointments available.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources