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Innovative Shelter Solution

11/4/2020

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Innovative Shelter Solution
OLYMPIA – Funding has been secured for purchase and development of a half-acre lot on Olympia’s eastern edge that will serve as a temporary homeless shelter and evolve to more broadly serve Thurston County’s unhoused residents.

Just as it appeared that Interfaith Works would have to turn out the 23 people we’ve been caring for on the site of the organization’s future permanent shelter and supportive housing building at 2828 Martin Way, a new plan has come together. Partners in the $1.7 million plan include Thurston County, the Washington State Department of Commerce, the City of Olympia, The United Way of Thurston County, First United Methodist Church and a private donor-lender.

Since April, the City of Olympia has allowed Interfaith Works to use an empty former podiatry and dental office at 2828 Martin Way as an overflow shelter to accommodate social distancing at our crowded downtown shelter guests after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. We will have to move next week to make way for construction to start on a multi-story building built by the Seattle-based Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) and staffed by Interfaith Works. It will have 65 apartments above a new 60-bed shelter facility.
There are multiple moving parts to this complex plan involving three sites, building demolition, two construction projects and relocating our shelter guests twice,” said Andrew Rayment, president of the Interfaith Works Board of Directors. “Sometimes miracles do occur. We are incredibly grateful to all of the partners who helped make this happen.”
A Continuum of Care
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Photo of the modular building, called a "Sprung" structure, that will be constructed between Nov. 2020-Feb. 2021 at 3444 Martin Way for a shelter in the short term, and a future day time service center.

3444 Martin Way

The plan calls for purchasing a lot at 3444 Martin Way and erecting a 5,250-square-foot Sprung Structure to serve as a temporary shelter. A number of American and Canadian cities are using these heavy-duty modular structures to shelter unhoused people. The new structure is expected to be ready for occupancy by mid-January/early February 2021. Until then, the people who had been sheltered at 2828 Martin Way will be temporarily housed at First United Methodist Church of Olympia.
First United Methodist Church of Olympia

First United Methodist Church of Olympia

“The congregation of First United Methodist Church of Olympia is thrilled to partner with Interfaith Works and support the vital work they are doing in our community,” said the Rev. Amanda Nicol, Associate Pastor. "Our Christian faith compels us to love God by seeking justice, kindness and dignity for the most vulnerable among us. The pandemic has left our building profoundly underutilized, so we feel blessed to offer this act of hospitality to our unsheltered neighbors.”

Keylee Marineau, Thurston County Homeless and Affordable Housing Coordinator, noted that Thurston County has seen a dramatic loss of shelter bed capacity over the past year.
"It’s no secret that we have hundreds of unsheltered people on our streets and in wooded areas with no options to get inside as winter approaches," Marineau said. "Any addition of 24/7 shelter beds to our system is a major win.”
When the new temporary shelter opens, it will have 38 socially-distanced beds, adding to the overall capacity to the system. Shelter residents will continue to receive two meals a day, 24- hour hygiene services, and round-the-clock support from highly trained and experienced Interfaith Works employees. The modular structure model creates a high degree of control over the site layout, allowing for a thoughtful planning process designed to minimize impacts on neighboring businesses and residents
2828 Martin Way Supportive Housing and Shelter
Future home of 65-unit of permanent supportive housing and a 60-bed supported shelter to be completed in late 2021.

2828 Martin Way

Interfaith Works and LIHI expect to break ground in December on the five-story building that will provide a new homeless shelter and supportive housing apartments at 2828 Martin Way. Once the new building is ready for occupancy, the people to be housed in the temporary shelter and those in a second Interfaith Works shelter now located at Olympia’s First Christian Church will move in. When that move is complete, the modular building at 3444 Martin Way will convert into day shelter and a hygiene center. Eventually the private donor who helped with the property purchase hopes it will be possible to build low-income housing units there as well.
Interfaith Works Executive Director Meg Martin was quick to praise the Interfaith Board and funding partners for their willingness to embrace the complex project.
“At a time when the COVID-19 crisis has made all of our lives harder, this community has come together with a pragmatic, generous and heart-strong plan to help our most vulnerable residents,” Martin said. “It’s remarkable, but not surprising. This effort proves that Thurston County is home to some of the most caring, innovative, and courageous people in the world.”

Q&A for Neighbors

More information about the temporary relocation to the First United Methodist Church can be found online as well as any links to future neighbor meetings as they arise.
Q&A for Neighbors
More details and updates about the 3444 Martin Way development will be posted on our website in the next few weeks.
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Shelters in the time of Covid

9/3/2020

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We're adapting, but we need your help!

Check out this short video that talks about how we are pivoting to meet the rising need and challenge of Covid 19! Listen in for ways that you can help!
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Our New Show!

8/27/2020

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Interfaith Works tackles conversations at the intersection of justice, humanity, and belief.

There are so many issues swirling around right now. Questions of public health, public safety, and public good. Everyone is struggling in some way as we all try to find some sort of equilibrium during the pandemic. ​We wanted to make a forum for those conversations. Check out our new facebook livestream, Lean in Olympia! Interfaith Works will be making space every couple weeks on Tuesdays at noon to have these talks on topical subjects. ​
​This episode discusses how Covid 19 has impacted local homeless services. There is information about how quarantine and isolation works, what the challenges are, how Thurston County is doing things differently than some other places, and a whole lot more! 

The conversation also touches on the subject of overdoses and the significant impact of the opioid epidemic as we prepare for Overdose Awareness Day, August 31st. 

Join the conversation!

If there are topics you would be interested in seeing us cover, reach out!
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Ready for What's Next

7/14/2020

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Providence Ends Services

Providence ends partnership with Interfaith Works at the Community Care Center. 

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Interfaith Works has been striving to increase access to services for those experiencing chronic homelessness for more than 25 years, and on a much larger scale since 2014.

We provide 24/7 shelter, peer support based case management services, and until last week, we were a founding partner at the Providence Community Care Center.

The unprecedented collaborative effort at the CCC included 16 different partners from local mental health, primary care, and shelter and housing services. There are countless stories of success from this model, particularly for people in our community who have the most complex challenges related to their physical health, mental health, and substance use.
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Interfaith Works employees Dave Wade and Chris Harnish working the front service desk at the Community Care Center.
As we have said many times before, this work is not easy. It takes a toll mentally, emotionally, and politically. In the world of providing for the basic needs of people regardless of their circumstances, it doesn't always look pretty from the outside, and the complex realities of homelessness are often misunderstood and misrepresented.
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Without leaning into the painful places and bearing witness to human suffering, one will never get to experience the transformation in yourself, in others, and in our community that comes from taking the time to accept people exactly as they are without judgment and strings attached. We thank Providence for the time, resources, and energy they have spent leaning in with us over these past three and a half years.
Last week Providence decided to terminate the role of Interfaith Works and SideWalk in the CCC partnership and shift the program model to be primarily appointment based. We are deeply saddened by this decision and very concerned about the additional gaps this will create in our already struggling local safety net. We are concerned not only for the people we serve but also for the business community and other downtown organizations that become defacto hygiene and day centers in the absence of dedicated places for people to be.

Further, in today’s vitally important conversation about dismantling structural racism, community policing, and alternatives that center the safety and support of Black and Indigenous people and all people of color, we now must recognize that one of the primary spots for people to come to daily, for the CRU team, law enforcement, Familiar Faces, the clinical providers at the CCC, the hospital discharge planners to find people and to bring them to connect to services will no longer be a tool in our tool belt in the same way -- particularly not for houseless people who are most disconnected from traditional services. People of color make up 35% of people experiencing homelessness in Thurston County. That is nearly twice the rate of the prevalence of people of color in the general population.
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We stand ready and willing for what’s next. We hope you'll join us.
Today is a beautiful sunny day -- one of the few we’ve had all year, and all I can think about is winter. It’s mid-July, and we have no plan for a day center, no plan for additional shelter capacity for the cold-weather season for the single adult population, a likely decrease in shelter capacity once construction for the new IW/LIHI shelter and permanent supportive housing development at Martin Way begins, no real plan for providing safe parking alternatives for the dozens of people on Deschutes parkway and Ensign Road…. But you already know this. For everyone in our community interested in this issue please contact Thurston County and the cities of Lacey and Tumwater to share your thoughts on the intersections of race, class, and housing issues. I hope our community will not miss this moment to meaningfully connect the dots that racial justice and housing justice are intrinsically linked.

Today I am grateful for the collective and diverse lived experiences that exist within Interfaith Works because we are resilient, creative, and will do what it takes to continue building a community that allows dedicated space and care to every person regardless of their circumstance! We hope you will join us in that effort to find a place where people who are unsheltered and living in substandard housing can go, can be their full selves without judgment, and can get their basic needs met regardless of their circumstance.

Thank you to all our amazing service partners at the CCC, particularly the core partner group -- Providence clinical mental health team, Valley View, SideWalk, Community Action Council, Behavioral Health Services, and The Olympia Free Clinic. We would also like to thank the office of Thurston County Public Health and Social Services, the Olympia City Council and city staff who have put countless time, energy, and resources into making the CCC what it was.
Meg Martin
Meg Martin, MSW, CPC
Executive Director

Community Care Center Model

​Please check out this beautiful video highlighting the unique model of the Community Care Center that we are very proud of co-founding. 
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Providence Temporarily Closes Dayroom and Services

3/16/2020

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CLOSES MARCH 17, 2020
Due to concerns regarding COVID-19, Providence has decided to temporarily close the dayroom and hygiene services at the Community Care Center, effective March 17.
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On March 13, Providence released the following statement to The Olympian.

"… Providence will continue to offer mental health and medication services downtown, but will screen patients at the door for an appointment. If a guest presents who does have symptoms, we are partnering with Thurston County Public Health to put a plan in place to help meet the need for testing homeless in our community."

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Interfaith Works appreciates Providence's desire to slow the spread of COVID-19, but we are highly concerned about the health and safety of unsheltered people in Thurston County and the lack of options available for people who are living with permanent disability and chronic illness and who are at high risk for transmission.
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The Community Care Center drop-in dayroom provides a vital service to over 200 people a day and has the most accessible hygiene services in the city for unsheltered people.

These guests are at the highest risk of infection and death from COVID-19.

What We are Doing to Keep People Safe

  1. On March 12, Interfaith Works staff began conducting mandatory screening of guests at the Community Care Center and the Nightly Shelter to monitor symptoms. 
  2. We are creating a plan to extend hours at our nightly shelter and provide meals to our shelter guests so they don't have to leave to go to congregant meal locations.
  3. Additionally, we will be partnering with local outreach efforts to increase bringing support, medical services, and supplies to people where they are. 
  4. We plan to work closely with our mental health and clinical partners at the CCC to increase access to clinical services provided there despite the closure of the dayroom. 
 

How You Can Help

  1. Sign up to bring a meal (either home-cooked or consider food from a local business who might be struggling right now as well), to the nightly shelter and drop it off with staff across the street so we can bring it in and serve it. If you are already signed up, please consider if there are other ways to keep that commitment rather than canceling. We are happy to talk through ideas with you! Check out our volunteer calendar to see what nights we need meals.
  2. Are you a medical provider or work in a medical office and you could consider donating oral thermometer devices with disposable plastic covers to shelter providers or outreach workers?
  3. Do you work for a union who utilizes N95 masks or Personal Protective Equipment and you could consider donating these supplies to us?
  4. Do you work for an entertainment company and you have excess bulk wristbands you could consider donating to us? Wristbands are how we are tracking our screening process.
  5. Are you healthy, at low risk of transmission and willing to help us with our increased personnel needs due to mandatory screening each day? We have volunteer roles, and may have temporary paid positions opening up as well.
  6. Do you have one or more rechargeable, oral thermometers you could donate that is compatible with Welch Allyn thermometer probes? 
  7. Can you donate food items like Cup O' Soup, Easy Mac, single serving yogurt cups, string cheese, coffee, sugar, creamer, soft drinks and bottled water, bulk items that we could use to make meals with?
  8. Do you sew and have extra fabric/elastic around that you could make our staff and guests cloth face masks such as [this pattern]?
  9. Can you help make DIY facemasks such [as this]?
  10. Do you have light to medium weight machine washable blankets, twin size sheets, and pillow cases you could donate? Can you ask your neighbor if they have any to donate as well?
  11. Can you donate clothes, socks, underwear, hand warmers, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, gloves, hats, rain gear, etc.? 
  12. Make a purchase on our Amazon Wish List and make an immediate impact on our most needed items.
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Can you donate to help us cover the additional costs of responding to this pandemic?

The bulk of the public health response to COVID-19 for people experiencing homelessness is falling to front line healthcare and homeless service providers.

Thank you in advance for considering a donation. We could not do this work without you.

Meg Martin, MSW, CPC
Executive Director
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Interfaith Works Response to COVID-19

3/12/2020

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Health and Safety First

The health and safety of Interfaith Works shelter guests and our staff is our highest priority. We manage infectious diseases and practice robust sanitation and disinfection of our spaces at all times, but the unknowns of the COVID-19 epidemic demand vigorous precautions.

Our shelter and Community Care Center guests are at the highest risk for severe illness if they become infected. As of today, there have been no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the houseless community or the employees who work with them in Thurston County. 


We are working daily with County and State Public Health officials to ensure that there is a clear and realistic plan for quarantine and treatment options for people experiencing homelessness if an outbreak occurs among the houseless community in Thurston County.

Our Steps to Keep Our Guests and Staff Safe

Additionally, we are taking the following steps to keep our guests and our staff safe:
  1. Closely following State and County Health Department recommendations and talking daily with healthcare partners at the Community Care Center like Providence, Valley View, and The Olympia Free Clinic for most up to date recommendations.
  2. As of March 12, 2020 we started mandatory and daily screening of all guests at the Community Care Center and the Nightly Shelter to determine if their symptoms meet criteria for testing. Through our partnership with Providence, we are coordinating closely with three clinics who are now testing people in Thurston County. We are arranging for safe transport in the event someone meets the criteria and needs to be seen at a clinic.
  3. Increased outreach and information sharing with our staff, partner agencies, and guests who utilize our services about who's at highest risk (older folks, folks of any age who have weakened immune systems or complicating health factors like chronic illness, substance use, and people with lack of access to basic hygiene). We have posted Health Department posters about how to wash hands properly, signs and symptoms, and what to do if someone is symptomatic.
  4. All guests and employees are being directed to avoid touching their eyes, nose, and mouth.
  5. All employees who are sick are being directed to stay home whenever possible. We currently offer paid leave for all of our employees, but in addition to their normal accrual, we are creating an internal emergency declaration policy regarding paid leave for employees who may require additional time off to get well.
  6. Our services rely on maintaining a safe and adequate staff-to-guest ratio, and we are prepared to modify our hours of operation if we cannot adequately staff any of our programs. This would be a worst-case scenario that we hope would not ever be necessary.
  7. All guests and employees are being directed to cover coughs or sneezes with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.
  8. All guests and employees are being directed to wash hands multiple times per day!  To be effective, wash hands for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after nose blowing, coughing, or sneezing.
  9. All guests and employees are asked to fist bump, elbow bump, or shoe bump to say hello to people -- no high fives, no handshakes. If they forget, they should wash their hands immediately and avoid touching their face.
  10. All guests and employees are being told to get a flu shot if they haven't already.
  11. We are making sure that hand sanitizer and disinfectant cleaning supplies are well stocked and promoted regularly.
  12. We are buying as many N95 masks as we can and prioritizing them for immune compromised employees and guests at highest risk of severe illness. 
  13. We are performing regular bleach wipe-downs of door handles, light switches, table and counter tops, computers, phones and other frequently touched surfaces multiple times on each shift. During daily cleaning shifts at our shelter, we open windows and run fans to promote air flow and ventilation. 
  14. All employees are being told to increase their use of protective gloves and to distribute gloves to guests.
  15. We are working with partner agencies at the Community Care Center to minimize the congregation of high-risk populations by asking all non-medical providers to stay home or provide service consultations by phone.​
  16. We are actively lobbying the State and Local governments to increase allocation of resources to create a clear and culturally relevant plan for increased hygiene access and quarantine for people who are living in shelters, encampments, and sleeping on sidewalks and in doorways.
  17. We are suspending group meetings and conducting them online whenever possible. We will be cancelling this month's Program Council and the Homeless Services monthly volunteer training. â€‹

Questions?

Please let us know if you have any questions:
office@interfaith-works.org
We are sending love and strength to you and your families during this difficult time.

How You Can Help

  1. Sign up to bring a meal (either home-cooked or consider food from a local business who might be struggling right now as well), to the nightly shelter and drop it off with staff across the street so we can bring it in and serve it. If you are already signed up, please consider if there are other ways to keep that commitment rather than canceling. We are happy to talk through ideas with you! Check out our volunteer calendar to see what nights we need meals.
  2. Are you a medical provider or work in a medical office and you could consider donating oral thermometer devices with disposable plastic covers to shelter providers or outreach workers?
  3. Do you work for a union who utilizes N95 masks or Personal Protective Equipment and you could consider donating these supplies to us?
  4. Do you work for an entertainment company and you have excess bulk wristbands you could consider donating to us? Wristbands are how we are tracking our screening process.
  5. Are you healthy, at low risk of transmission and willing to help us with our increased personnel needs due to mandatory screening each day?
  6. Contact us if you want to learn more about these options.

Make a Donation

Can you donate to help us cover the additional costs of responding to this pandemic?

The bulk of the public health response to COVID-19 for people experiencing homelessness is falling to front line healthcare and homeless service providers.

We had a large fundraiser planned for this weekend that had to be canceled and this is a big hit to us financially on top of the additional costs.

Thank you in advance for considering a donation. We could not do this work without you.

Meg Martin, MSW, CPC
Executive Director
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Whenever we tackle tough issues at Interfaith Works we try to look at cute animals to remind us that everything is still beautiful despite the hardship. Baby kittens do the trick. <3 <3 <3
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Interfaith Works selects Meg Martin as Executive Director

12/31/2019

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A Message from the IW Board of Directors:

Meg Martin will become Executive Director of the Olympia-based Interfaith Works organization starting Jan. 1, 2020. Martin, who currently oversees the organization’s Homeless Services programs for unhoused people through the Nightly Shelter, Community Care Center and Navigation Team programs, joined Interfaith Works in 2013. She helped to transform one of Interfaith Works longest standing programs – the seasonal rotating women’s shelter -- into the full breadth of safety net services offered today.  
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She takes over at a time when the organization is preparing to grow considerably by building a 24/7 shelter facility below 65 apartments that will provide permanent supportive housing. This exciting development is in partnership with the City of Olympia, Thurston County, the State of Washington, and the Seattle-based Low Income Housing Institute. Construction is expected to begin in 2020.

“Meg is an exceptional and visionary leader,” said Board President Catherine Carmel. “We are confident in her abilities to lead our organization through this exciting transition.”
Martin is a Certified Peer Counselor and a Social Worker. She earned her Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Washington, Tacoma in 2013. Building from decades of dedicated volunteerism from the faith communities, she founded the Interfaith Works Emergency Overnight Shelter program in 2014 with two other dedicated street outreach workers - Cassie Burke and Jefferson Doyle. Under her innovative leadership the Homeless Services program has grown significantly and positioned Interfaith Works as a trusted leader in our community response to the national crisis of homelessness. 

“I am honored to have the opportunity to build from the rich history of so many who have gone before me and who have taught me so much,” Martin said. “I am excited to continue deepening and broadening relationships throughout all parts of our community – faith traditions of all kinds, business, service groups, tribal partnerships, service provider and community-based organizations, neighborhood associations, governmental partnerships and more. I love this community so much, and can’t wait to serve in this new capacity.”
Interfaith Works is a non-profit, social justice coalition made up of over 30 diverse faith traditions. The organization brings the human and financial resources of faith communities together with business and government agencies to benefit those in need. Interfaith Works will not discriminate on the basis of ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, race, physical ability, religion or religious belief, a refusal to hold a religious belief, or a refusal to actively participate in a religious practice.

​Media contact: Carolyn Cox, Board Member, 360-252-0415
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Thurston County Adopts Homeless Crisis Response Plan

11/4/2019

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HOT OF THE PRESSES! Check out the Thurston County 5 Year Homeless Crisis Response Plan
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AVAILABLE COOLING CENTERS

6/12/2019

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May Day Staff Appreciation

5/1/2019

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Thank you to our amazing staff team!

May 1st, or May Day, is a paid holiday for Interfaith Works Homeless Services Staff. May Day is historically a celebration of workers rights, of the hard fought wins for an 8-hour work day and less exploitive labor laws. Although we can't take a break in services because people's lives depend on our support, we want you to know how appreciative we are of our amazing crew. Thank you to all our former staff who have gone on to do amazing things and to our current crew for holding it down everyday: Jeanne, Dave, Brian “Bubz”, Sylys, Abby, Beau, Joey, Knell, Ellen, Salome, Bee, Rob, Noah, Brock, Marissa, Oscar, Joyce, Midden, Rick, Nota, Craig, Sophie, Thomas, Lev, MeG, Punkin, Cassie, Wendy, Kim, Kearsten, Xtina, Jace, Ricardo, and our management team, Brittany, Bryant, Chris, Jocelyn, Tarryn, and Ti'eri! THANK YOU ALL! <3 <3 <3
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Our staff are on the front lines everyday supporting people through crisis, connecting them to vital shelter beds, hygiene, housing, and clinical support services so that they may find their right path to a higher quality of life. Our staff lead with love, humor, compassion, pragmatism, and a strong work ethic everyday to mitigate the many harms associated with the housing crisis that our city is facing. We believe that although our work isn't easy and it has impacts in the community, inaction has much greater impact to us all, and is not an option when there are people literally dying on our streets and in wooded areas due to weather, chronic health conditions, overdose, fatal accidents, major medical events like heart attack or stroke, and more. Thank you to our stellar staff team who show up everyday to face, head-on, one of the biggest and most complex challenges our community will ever face. ​

IW Stance on May Day protests

There is a long history in most cities, as is true of Olympia, of protests on May Day that can often lead to property damage, vandalism, and in extreme cases, violence. Interfaith Works has stated before, and we would like to state again, that we unequivocally denounce violence or threats of violence of any kind. Additionally, we believe that any action that further divides our communities ability to work on solutions to our greatest challenges undermines the hard work of so many (non-profits, government, businesses, neighborhood coalitions, unhoused and housed residents, etc.), who want to see our city be safe and welcoming for all people. Further, it puts our most marginalized neighbors at higher risk of harm and criminalization. Last year we put out a statement and many parts of it still ring true today.  We would like to share those excerpts again: 

"Interfaith Works has worked for peace and justice for 45 years in this community through diverse and intentional bridge-building. Working to heal community pain and bring people together through interfaith understanding and providing emergency shelter and services to vulnerable people on the streets has always been at the core of our role in Thurston County. We are deeply saddened at the strong divisions that are present in our community today. We face huge challenges posed by population growth and a changing economy. We have a humanitarian crisis on our streets, business owners are struggling, affordable housing is severely lacking and people with serious challenges related to their mental health and substance use remain on the streets while they experience long delays seeking help from an overwhelmed health care system.

This is a time, more than ever, to draw on our individual and collective strengths to weather these challenges together, without violence and/or threats of violence tearing us apart and weakening our ability to make long-term, sustainable change. The residents of Olympia and governmental, non-profit and community leaders have a deep well of compassion and strong motivation to make positive, effective changes -- we always have. We have overcome differences many times before in this community to come together for the greater good. We’ve done this by having open and civil conversations, respecting each other even if we are not seeing things from the same side, hearing each other out and allowing for the raw emotion that is inevitably part of these complex issues to be valued. Interfaith Works remains steadfast in our commitment to bridging divides and staying grounded in our core values of peace, justice and partnership among all facets of our diverse community."

Enjoy the beautiful weather, and please be excellent to each other! Have a great May Day, everyone! 
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