DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL & HEALTH SERVICES (DSHS) - WASHINGTON STATE
DSHS offers a variety of programs such as food, cash, medical, housing assistance, vocational rehabilitation, mental health & addiction services, disability support, adult care and more.
Click here for more information on available services from DSHS.
ARC of WA
Service: Providing resources to the
disabled during the COVID crisis
Timeframe: During COVID crisis
Link: https://arcwa.org/covid-19/
Informing Families
Service: Non-profit providing COVID related resources for families
with disabled children
Timeframe: During COVID crisis
Link: https://informingfamilies.org/covid-resources/
WA State Dept. of Revenue
Service: Property tax exemptions
Timeframe: Ongoing
Link: https://dor.wa.gov/content/property-tax-exemption-program-senior-citizens-and-people-disabilities
Aging and Disability Network
Service: Providing seniors and adults with disabilities services
Timeframe: Ongoing
Link: https://homage.org/aging-and-disability-resource-network/
American Association on Health and Disability
Service: Providing resources to the disabled during the COVID crisis
Timeframe: During COVID crisis
Link: https://aahd.us/covid-19/
Lynnwood Food Bank
Service: Offers Assisted Service (is not a
disables service) is available
between 11am and 11:30am
on Wednesdays; for those in
wheelchairs, with oxygen,
blind, or deaf, over 80, or with
state paid caregivers.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Contact: (425) 745-1635
Homage
Service: Meals on Wheels for disabled -
providing sack lunches and
frozen meals at centers have
closed due to COVID 19
Emergency-only home
repair/social services/DART
transportation/TAP
Transportation Asst. Program
Timeframe: Ongoing with additional COVID 19 funding
Link: https://homage.org/nutrition/meals-on-wheels/
Department of Health Aged, Blind, or Disabled (ABD)
Service: Cash Assistance Program
Timeframe: Ongoing
Link: https://www.dshs.wa.gov/esa/community-services-offices/aged-blind-or-disabled-abd-cash-assistance-program
medicaid
Service: Medicaid
Timeframe: Ongoing with
additional
COVID 19
funding
Link: https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/wi/medicaid.htm
Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
Service: Offering emergency grants
during the COVID 19 crisis
Timeframe: First come,
first serve
Link: https://www.dav.org/covid/
WA State Office of Public Instruction
Service: Provision of Services to
Students with Disabilities
During School Facility Closures
for COVID-19
Timeframe: During COVID
crisis
National Council on Aging
Service: Assistance for seniors and the
disabled during the Covid 19
pandemic, providing
information on Meals,
Medicare assistance, eldercare
locator and other services.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Link: https://www.ncoa.org/article/key-resources-about-covid-19-for-older-adults