City of Issaquah: Community Assistance: Bilingual Volunteers

We Need Volunteers! Are you bilingual? Do you feel you can use your languages to help others? Do you have time to help? We are looking for community members with bilingual language skills, who can help in a variety of non-profit organizations in our area. This help might include translations, interpretation services and assisting new residents learn and understand how these organizations work. If interested, fill out a general interest form today.

Issaquah Equity and Inclusion Community Group

The mission of this Group is to activate community members to celebrate and champion diversity and equity, creating a sense of belonging for all who choose to live, work and visit our community. Find us on Facebook, and be sure to Like & Follow us to stay informed on our events, as well as resources and programs in our greater community.

King County: Volunteers Needed for Community Court

 Would you like to help make our community stronger and healthier? You can make a difference by helping connect people to needed services! King County District Court has openings at multiple sites to help with our Resource Centers and Community Courts:

• Be a services navigator to help the public and court participants connect to services they need in our resource center. This mostly involves talking to people to help them identify where (with what agency) they can get what they need to improve their situations (such as financial assistance, treatment, education, work, debt/legal help). For this opportunity, it is important you are someone with problem-solving skills who has some experience or a lot of interest in learning about the services and agencies who help folks.

• Help in community court: Take notes in court and administer exit surveys to ensure the effectiveness of our program.

• Find local community service opportunities for court participants, keep an updated community service list to share, and possibly help with a few community clean up events.

• Moderate our Virtual Resource Center: We are virtual for now, and we need help managing the Zoom platform during resource center hours.

 Although still virtual at the moment, the resource centers are centered in Shoreline, Redmond, and Auburn. You can participate from any location now via Zoom, but it is recommended that you serve your local community so volunteers can continue with Community Court when we return to in-person resource centers/court.   Please contact Ericka Cooley at 206-409-2012 or ecooley@kingcounty.gov to find out more!

Check out their websites with further info on our programs: King County Community Courts Virtual Resource Centers (VRC)

Hollaback! is a global, people-powered movement to end harassment — in all its forms.

We believe we all have a role to play in disrupting harassment and building a culture where it is no longer seen as “just the price you have to pay” for being a woman, LGBTQ+, a person of color, or any other marginalized identity. We teach people to take action, and to reach across their own identities to ally with others and establish a united front against harassment each time we witness it.

King County Trusted Partner Network Orientations Offered Every Other Month 2023

The Trusted Partner Network (TPN) is an effort to ensure that every resident of King County receives critical lifesaving emergency alerts, regardless of whether they speak English or where they live. By partnering with trusted leaders within every major language group in King County, the TPN will create a link between King County’s emergency alert system, the non-English speaking populations, and other communities that it currently does not serve.