Catholic Community Services Kent Family Center — Local services in Kent

Very sad and lame. The nighttime manager of their men's shelter in kent is a woman named jessy. A day or two after I learned that I was suffering from incontinence in the middle of the night, she chose that moment to upbraid me for nudity. Yeah, jessy, just wait until you have to pee in a bottle in the middle of the night, because you are not able to make it to the bathroom in time, because you are physically disabled! What a number you are. Lacking compasion for your fellow man and a veteran, common sense, and most of all charity. You elect to stand on your principals, in spite of knowing that you run a male shelter, you get all high and mighty and run out your easily offended morals at the mere site of male nudity!!!! Grow up, jessy!!!! Pull up your big girl panties and suck it up, baby!! You wanted to play in the big boys club, my nudity is part of that. Like female sports reporters who have to do their work in a male locker room. Just like in a hospital, grow up, little girl, and deal with it!!! God made me, and knows what I have. If he can accept that, perhaps you should, too. My nudity is so totally not done with any sexual thoughts in mind, far from it. I am trying to avoid making a mess on the carpet of kent christian church. Perhaps you would rather I did that, eh? I have talked to the American Civil liberties union re this issue. There may be grounds for a lawsuit against you personally for violating the Americans with disabilities act, and for sexual harassment of me, by compelling me to get up and walk under any circumstances, were your exact words, to the bathroom, even though you are already aware that I am unable to do that, and/or conceivably against the Church in general. I no longer feel welcome in any shelter in which you are in charge, and feel discriminated against by your mere presence. I avoided going to the new shelter at covenant on saturday night, july 1st because of your discriminatory practices. I with be addressing the issue with your supervisor, Sherwin very soon- who already well knows of my use of the...

CCS. What can I say about CCS? This is probably a small, insignificant thing, but this place came to my rescue during the absolute lowest, down-and-out period of my entire life. If you happen to be a bit curious, itching to know, and I'm not ashamed to share this, I became unsheltered for several months.

I had only moved to WA just a few short months prior and circumstances that were not caused by me being neglectful to priorities, nor by me being addicted to substances. Because of a little typo somewhere in some office by someone unknown, the benefits I had worked so hard for many years to get had been cut off in error, leaving me completely broke and unable to pay necessary bills as I had always done. Rent being one of the things I no longer could afford, so home became wherever I parked my car.

Had it not been for an attentive, extremely caring and helpful Kent police officer, I may not have ever heard of CCS, but he saw me early one morning and asked if I was ok. I told him my situation, and he quickly pointed me towards CCS for help. And help is what they did.

First, a nightly church shelter. For 2 months, that's where i stayed while still waiting for the error to be fixed. Next, COVID came and CCS shipped us guys to a hotel in SeaTac. For just shy of a year CCS provided hotel stay until their Rapid Re-Housing came to up the help ante. They helped me get my life back by helping me get an apartment. That was 4 years ago, and I'm still in that new apartment.

Not just housing, but CCS is still helping me today through their CReW Counseling service. Being homeless was very traumatic for me, compounded by other mental health issues, I'm being responsible by taking care of my mental health and CCS assists me in maintaining my sanity and I'm living an active life that could've easily ended tragically. So...

This is a terrible facility to be in. When you call several times, no one picks up the phone and there is no option to leave a voicemail. The lady who did my intake did not seem willing to help me get into shelter even though I was black during my intake. However, she then made a comment to her friend that a black man that she is related to or dating is not willing to get a job and is lazy. This made her looks backwards. I believe she is on the recording as well when you call in. I did my intake first but she gave someone an earlier appointment date than me. I only got an appointment date because I had asked for it after my intake. Whereas she had given it to the other person first without them asking during their intake. She was also more polite with that client even though the client was not more mannered than me. The process is backwards because you have to do 2 meetings including one intake to get a bed. I had gotten into another facility so I did not go to the appointment yet she...