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"Camano Center is 100% self-funded and through our events, activities and revenue from the Thrift Shop, we are able to provide Meals-on-Wheels to shut-ins, medical rides for the elderly and disabled so they can get to doctors’ appointments or go on a grocery run, support services such as Alzheimer’s Groups and Adult Care.  This has been the mission of the Center for almost 50 years now, but as our residents grow older and face mounting medical difficulties, the need for these services increases.  Funding, meanwhile, is on the decline.  We receive no funding from state and local government." - Tim Spencer  Come hear about all the great things the Camano Center is doing.

Lance Morehouse is the Executive Director of Sherwood Community Services, a non-profit in Lake Stevens that provides services to children and adults with disabilities in Snohomish County. Sherwood Community Services has been around for almost 60 years.

 

Lance moved to Lake Stevens about 6 years ago following his wife. Lance and his wife both had sons that had disabilities and caring for people with disabilities became a passion for them both

 

The founder of Sherwood Community Services was Hazel Vernables. She had a daughter with a disability and was a public care nurse that worked with other families with developmental and intellectual disabilities.  They were looking for a way for their children to learn because children with disabilities were not required to have education.  8 families started Sherwood so that children could have education.

Prior to starting her nonprofit organization, Strength In Numbers, Jaimey worked as a certified
bookkeeper for Simple Solutions, for which she was the sole proprietor, for the better part of 16 years.
After a successful career in accounting Jaimey found herself deeply drawn to volunteer work. Her
projects while residing in Portland were largely focused on underage victims of human trafficking in the
United States. She has received three certifications for her participation in the fight to end human sex
trafficking.
While in Portland, she spent 8 years providing meals, coats, blankets and hygiene items to the homeless
each Thanksgiving and Christmas and also regularly volunteered at the Portland Rescue Mission feeding
those in need at their nightly dinner service.
In 2016, while living in Seattle, Jaimey and her husband volunteered weekly with the Union Gospel
Mission serving meals and providing street outreach to those in need.
In 2017 Jaimey and her husband moved to Camano Island. Her current professional interests focus on
the homeless crisis as well as the opioid epidemic and those whom are affected locally. The nonprofit,
Strength In Numbers, was formed in January of 2019 and currently provides meals and resource referral
to more than 100 individuals several days a week. In addition to operating her nonprofit, she is a
member of both the Coalition to End Homelessness and Operation Homeless Connect in Skagit County
and volunteers once a week providing street outreach and advocacy for individuals struggling with
addiction and homelessness in Mount Vernon.

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