At Solid Ground, we know that homelessness and poverty are complex conditions that create compounding barriers for people working to rebuild stability in their lives.

For many of us, housing alone doesn’t undo the harm we’ve experienced – or create the sustainable life changes we seek for ourselves and our families. Often, we need additional kinds of support to overcome trauma, stabilize our mental and physical health, and gain the skills we need to pursue our goals.  

That’s why Solid Ground provides a range of individualized, wraparound support services for participants and residents designed to meet their immediate needs while cultivating tools, resources, and networks to nurture multigenerational success. 

As Solid Ground enters our 50th year, we’re deeply grateful to longtime partners like the Wyncote Foundation NW, whose support allows us to meet these needs and promote stability for the thousands of King County residents who engage Solid Ground for services each year.  

Wyncote’s ongoing partnership allows us to not only provide the support people need, but also expand our capacity to reach others and serve them in new and better ways. This includes investments like the expansion of our Anti-Racism Initiative, adoption of new technology, staff training and development, and support for new positions to scale the work we do.  

Wyncote’s bold investments are making room for innovation and expansion in three Solid Ground programs, each delivering the crucial resources our participants say they need. 

• Every Door Access breaks down program silos to ensure that we treat everyone as a whole person and address all their needs, regardless of which individual Solid Ground program they connect with first. With the understanding that a crisis in one part of a person’s life is likely to affect others as well, Every Door’s Peer Resource Coordinators work to rapidly connect people with the services they need, both at Solid Ground and elsewhere, as well as provide direct assistance like gas and grocery gift cards to help folks in crisis chart a course for stability. 

• Sand Point’s Behavioral Health Partnerships remove barriers that may prevent residents at Solid Ground’s Sand Point Housing campus from getting the support they need to address ongoing stress, anxiety, loneliness, and trauma. Through mental health screenings, one-to-one and group counseling, behavioral health education, and peer counseling, these behavioral health partnerships improve individual well-being and contribute to a sense of safety and belonging on our housing campus.  

• Broadview Domestic Violence (DV) Legal Advocacy supports DV survivors residing at our Broadview Shelter & Transitional Housing as they pursue justice for themselves. By helping survivors navigate legal systems and engage in safety planning to protect their families, we promote their immediate safety and break down complex barriers to long-term healing and stability. 

Everyone wants to be seen as a whole being, not as a problem to be solved. By holistically addressing the complex circumstances leading to housing instability and the lasting impact of trauma, Solid Ground participants can move from crisis and surviving to self-sufficiency and thriving.  

Want to join our amazing supporters in helping to remove barriers along people’s journeys out of poverty? Check out our many Ways to Give!

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Image at top: Oliver Alexander-Adams, Solid Ground Family and Children’s Program Manager, meets with a Sand Point Housing resident. (Photo by Michael B. Maine)