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September 22, 2022

WithinReach State of the Union: Growth, Opportunities and New Initiatives

Last week, we hosted Cynthia Circle members, past and present WithinReach Board members, and other partners for a virtual State of the Union.

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August 22, 2022

¿Necesita apoyo con comida? Ayúdame a Crecer Washington puede ayudar

Tener acceso a alimentos nutritivos es importante para usted y su familia, y puede ayudar al desarrollo de su hijo y a su éxito al volver a la escuela. Estamos aquí para ofrecerle apoyo a medida que navega los programas de alimentos y nutrición para su familia.

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August 12, 2022

Need support with food? Help Me Grow Washington can help!

Check out this list of food programs, resources and benefits you can access all year long. We are here to provide support to people who are food insecure.

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July 25, 2022

Q&A with Neil Kaneshiro: Celebrating National Immunization Awareness Month

We spoke with Dr. Neil Kaneshiro, about why vaccines are important for people of all ages, and what we can do right now to protect our family’s health.

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May 17, 2022

Want to learn more about your child’s development?

Developmental screenings are activity-based questionnaires that can be completed by the person who knows your child best, YOU.

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May 17, 2022

¿Quiere aprender más sobre los cuestionarios del desarrollo infantil?

Los cuestionarios del desarrollo infantil son una serie de preguntas y actividades que pueden ser completados por la persona que mejor conoce a su hijo, USTED.

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April 13, 2022

Celebrate National Infant Immunization Week with Routine Immunizations for Your Child

This year, in particular, it’s critical to ensure that families stay on track for children’s routine checkups and recommended vaccinations!

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March 10, 2022

Reflecting on Food Access is Community Care

Read about our reflections and takeaways from last month’s Food Access is Community Care series event.

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December 17, 2021

Celebrating the Life’s Work of Our Founder, Cynthia F. Shurtleff

WithinReach was born out of Cynthia’s hard work, and we are excited to take this opportunity to honor her and further her vision.

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December 13, 2021

Help Me Grow Washington Serves Families Through Plan of Safe Care

Plan of Safe Care was officially launched on December 1 and will help more WA families can get connected to vital resources.

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September 20, 2021

Knock Out Flu: Think of It as Your Best Defense

This year, it’s more important than ever to get vaccinated against the flu. Read our blog to get the answers to common questions about the flu vaccine.

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August 26, 2021

Need support with food? WithinReach can help!

There are programs and resources to help your family get the food they need, and WithinReach can help you get connected to these benefits. Check out this list of food programs, resources and benefits that you can access.

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August 19, 2021

WithinReach State of the Union: Learning from the past as we look to the future

At a recent virtual event, we had a chance to share some of our biggest successes and challenges this past year, what we’ve learned, and what’s on the horizon.

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July 29, 2021

Need support with food this summer? WithinReach can help!

WithinReach is here to help you get connected to food benefits. Check out our list of food programs, resources and benefits you can access this summer and all year long.

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June 30, 2021

Partnering with the Albertsons and Safeway Foundation to Fight Hunger in Our Community

Thank you to Albertsons and Safeway foundation for awarding us a $100,000 grant to help connect our community with federal meal programs. Read more about what we hope to accomplish with this grant.

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June 2, 2021

2021 Legislative Wins to Support Washington Children and Families

During this year’s legislative session, WithinReach advocated for many important priorities related to equity, food access, physical and behavioral health, and early learning.

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February 19, 2021

WithinReach Steps Up for Families During COVID: A Conversation with Director of Programs, José Villalobos

Learn more about the ways WithinReach is mobilizing around critical outreach efforts statewide.

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January 13, 2021

Knock Out Flu: Think of It as Your Best Defense

It’s not too late to get your flu vaccine to protect yourself, your family and community. Learn more about where and who should get a flu vaccine this year.

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October 21, 2020

Knock Out Flu: Think of It as Essential

It’s more important than ever to get vaccinated against the flu. Read this blog to get answers to commonly asked questions about the vaccine.

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September 8, 2020

How Does COVID-19 Affect Early Childhood Development?

COVID-19 is shining a light on how important it is for families to access the resources they need, when they need them, as well as the barriers that impact healthy early childhood development.

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July 8, 2020

AmeriCorps and Direct Service Teams Respond to Families Affected by COVID

Our team experiences firsthand how barriers faced by families are exacerbated by social and racial inequities in our food system.

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April 14, 2020

Achieving Health Equity for Black Moms and Babies: A Conversation with Nurse-Midwife, Victoria Fletcher

We had a chance to talk with former WithinReach board member, Victoria Fletcher, about Black maternal health.

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January 16, 2020

MLK Jr. Day: Honoring All Aspects of His Legacy

As an organization, we hope to bring forward Martin Luther King Jr.’s radical work to help lead our own work with families and communities across the state.

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December 20, 2019

Project Pilgrimage: Building Our Stamina for Racial Justice

We breathed in the power and joy of our newfound interracial and intergenerational community, as a pathway to racial justice stamina and enduring hope.

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October 17, 2019

Marking My 20th Year Anniversary with a Civil Rights Pilgrimage

Believe it or not, I am celebrating 20 years of service at WithinReach this month! Over the years, what I have appreciated most is the opportunities for professional and personal growth…

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August 19, 2019

Well-Being is Vital at WithinReach

We believe all people thrive when they experience balance in body, mind and spirit and feel connected to purpose, people and community. We strive to build pathways to health and well-being for ourselves and the people we serve.

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July 1, 2019

Responding to the Measles Outbreak: Perspectives From a Clark County Nurse

Learn about the process local public health staff went through during the measles outbreak, as well as reflection and insight from a Clark County Public Health nurse.

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June 27, 2019

A Community Conversation Highlighting Health Equity

Last month, WithinReach held its very first Learning Series event centered on health equity and the obstacles families and individuals face when accessing the resources they need…

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June 14, 2019

Dads Make a Difference

About the time I started at WithinReach, Governor Gary Locke created the Commission on Early Learning, with the goal of making sure every child in Washington was ready to learn when they started school…

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May 9, 2019

Food Insecurity on College Campuses

My name is Tom and I am a recent college graduate serving as an AmeriCorps member at WithinReach. As part of my job, I go to colleges around King County and connect students with resources needed for a healthy and thriving life…

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May 2, 2019

Happy “Mothering” Day!

Every year on Mother’s Day I am reminded of a quote from Martha Beck’s book, Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth and Everyday Magic…

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April 22, 2019

Belonging Starts with Sawubona

If I were greeting you on the street in passing, or at Starbucks for coffee today, I might say: “Sawubona!”…

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March 15, 2019

Celebrating AmeriCorps Week 2019: Reflecting on my Service at WithinReach

When I made the decision to join AmeriCorps, I had just graduated from college and had no idea what I wanted to do with my degree…

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January 28, 2019

Baby Jeremy joins the WithinReach team (and everyone wins!)

WithinReach has always tried to create a work environment that supports women, moms and families…

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January 23, 2019

Meeting Students Where They Need Us: A Quick Guide to Benefits Hub

According to The Seattle Times, Seattle has the greatest number of college students living below the poverty line out of the 50 largest U.S. cities…

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December 13, 2018

30 Years of Women in Leadership Makes a Difference

As we come to the end of our 30th year anniversary, I continue to reflect on the ways WithinReach has grown and changed over the years to help hundreds of thousands of families live healthier, safer and more hopeful lives…

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December 10, 2018

Public Charge

WithinReach envisions healthy, vibrant communities in Washington where all families have the opportunity to thrive…

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November 6, 2018

Taking a “Both/And” View

So often, especially now, it seems we are pulled to live in a binary world – things, people, places, opportunities, opinions are either good or bad, right or wrong, racist or non-racist, etc…

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September 10, 2018

Suicide and Des-pair

I’ve learned a lot about suicide over the last several years because my spouse works with college-aged students, and regularly counsels students who are considering suicide…

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July 25, 2018

The Resilience of Brotherhood Goes Viral

Over the last year, I have volunteered as a mentor with Year Up: an amazing, yearlong program that provides low-income young adults with a combination of skills-based learning, coursework eligible for college credit, corporate internships and tons of support…

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July 19, 2018

A Board Abroad Travelogue

My husband, John, who serves on the WithinReach Board of Directors, and works in the Kindle division at Amazon, recently received word that he needed to leave for a business trip to the Middle East with only 10 days’ notice…

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June 27, 2018

A Story of Service

Howdy! My name is Samuel, and I am a specialist serving as an AmeriCorps on the Healthy Connections team whose mission at WithinReach is to connect families and individuals all over Washington State to basic resources to achieve healthy living…

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June 19, 2018

Families Belong Together

For 30 years, WithinReach has been connecting families to the resources they need to be healthy and safe. We envision a Washington State where all kids and families are growing and thriving…

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June 18, 2018

Being an Anti-Racist Takes Muscle Building

I have come to understand that it is not enough to wake up, learn, and care (or just consider myself ‘not-a-racist’), I must work to be an anti-racist…

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June 4, 2018

To Know Us is to Love Us

My dream is for everyone to get to know WithinReach better, because … to know us, is to love us … and our “badass love” for Washington families…

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April 24, 2018

Podcast: Help Me Grow with Founder Dr. Paul Dworkin

During the Help Me Grow National Forum, WithinReach’s Chief Strategy Officer, Sharon Beaudoin, sits down with Dr. Paul Dworkin to discuss the Help Me Grow model and importance of its key components and the work happening in our state…

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April 3, 2018

An Opportunity to Advance a “Child-First” Agenda

As debate rages on as to how best reform our health care system, we ask, “What about our children?”…

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March 30, 2018

Partnership Spotlight: Rebecca Hendricks & The End-FLUenza Project

On December 19, 2014, my 5-year-old daughter, Scarlet Anne, died. She died from the flu…

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March 2, 2018

My Year of Waking Up – Series: Part 5 of 5

The final piece in this reflective series on my recent learning about individual and institutional racism, about the difference between equality and equity, and about myself, is dedicated to hope…

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February 28, 2018

My Year of Waking Up – Series: Part 4 of 5

My past ‘year of waking up’ was not only enhanced by Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy, and my gym pal and local high school teacher, Eddie Stead, but by many others I was fortunate to meet throughout 2017…

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February 23, 2018

My Year of Waking Up – Series: Part 3 of 5

I started this series by saying that 2017 was a big year of learning for me about individual and institutional racism, about the difference between equality and equity, and about myself as a white person of privilege…

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February 20, 2018

Why WithinReach? Why Now?

When the opportunity to serve as a WithinReach Board member presented itself, I asked these same questions: Why WithinReach? Why now?…

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February 15, 2018

My Year of Waking Up – Series: Part 2 of 5

As I described in the introduction to this series, this has been a year of deep learning for me – about racism, bias, inequity and myself…

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February 8, 2018

My Year of Waking Up – Series: Part 1 of 5

Over the last year, I have experienced deep learning about racism, bias, inequity and myself…