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Our Family Services Department provide Spokane families with a respectful and supportive continuum of services that empower parents to fulfill their own goals to ensure that they can provide safety and encouragement their children need to grow into their full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We provide programs that serve low-income, at risk families who are striving to make financial security, family stability, healthy relationships and educational success a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\uf0b7 Emergency assistance with rent, utilities, school supplies and other basic needs
\uf0b7 Computer and internet access on a flexible schedule to adapt to family need
\uf0b7 Resources and Referrals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senior Citizen Services<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Senior Program
\uf0b7 Provides emotional, social, physical and educational activities focused around the needs
of older adults
\uf0b7 We provide a welcoming, inclusive environment where seniors can enjoy warm friendships, healthy activities, joyful experiences and meaningful engagement as they age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Food Bank<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

MLK Food bank
\uf0b7 The food bank provides nutritional foods to families in need.
\uf0b7 Food bank provides healthy foods and nutrition education. The food bank distributes over $600,000 lbs. of food a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Court
Community court is a neighborhood- focused court that attempt to harness the power of the justice system to address local problems. Community court strives to engage outside stakeholders such as residents, merchants, churches, and schools in new ways in an effort to bolster public trust in justice and test new approaches to reduce both crime and incarceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Community Court<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Community Court
Community court is a neighborhood- focused court that attempt to harness the power of the justice system to address local problems. Community court strives to engage outside stakeholders such as residents, merchants, churches, and schools in new ways in an effort to bolster public trust in justice and test new approaches to reduce both crime and incarceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principles of Community Court
\uf0b7 Individualized justice
\uf0b7 Improve quality of life for participants and the community
\uf0b7 Promote fair, equitable and responsive policies
\uf0b7 Find family and community oriented solutions
\uf0b7 Expand employment and education opportunities\uf0b7 Community and neighborhood improvement through sustainable environmental awareness and action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Family Services Department provide Spokane families with a respectful and supportive continuum of services that empower parents to fulfill their own goals to ensure that they can provide safety and encouragement their children need to grow into their full potential. We provide programs that serve low-income, at risk families who are striving to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlkspokane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlkspokane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlkspokane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlkspokane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlkspokane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mlkspokane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/mlkspokane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/589\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlkspokane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}