Join the Balanced You Well-being Advisory Committee
Do you have ideas on how King County can better support the well-being of you and your colleagues? Balanced You is seeking employees interested in joining our Balanced You Employee Well-being Advisory Committee! Any King County employee who is interested is invited to apply.
Inspired by employees, Balanced You equips us to live healthy and safe, know and use our benefits, and find balance in life and work. We’re Investing in YOU to help you feel good, get the most out of life, and do your best work for the people of King County. Read more.
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Now Recruiting 2024 Employee Giving Program Ambassadors
Bring a little inspiration to your day and build connection with your team by signing up to be an Ambassador.
The Employee Giving Program is now recruiting King County Employees to serve as an Ambassadors for this year’s Annual Giving Drive to their work groups/sites.
As an Ambassador, you are the heart and soul of our Employee Giving Program team. We can NOT run this program and support so many great causes without you. Last year that resulted in $2.29 million! You are the key to making sure that every King County employee has the chance to connect to a cause they care about through the program.
Register here to join our rock star Ambassador team for 2024. Read more.
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Your voice can be part of the future of Metro’s paratransit services
Crossposted from Metro Matters
Are you an Access rider, caregiver to an Access rider, or service provider? Help shape the future of Access Transportation by taking our survey!
King County Metro is continuing its full review of our paratransit rideshare service, Access Transportation, that will shape the service for the next seven to 10 years. We are at the stage where we are looking for community feedback from Access riders, Access caregivers, and Access service providers – organizations and businesses where Access riders are picked up and dropped off. If any of these are you, take our survey and share your feedback! Read more.
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A new era of health and racial equity in King County
At a recent community celebration, Public Health – Seattle & King County unveiled an ambitious five-year strategic plan aimed at improving the health and well-being of our community.
This new roadmap is the culmination of extensive collaboration and input from nearly 100 community and public health system partners, as well as hundreds of Public Health staff members. Informed by the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and underscored by King County’s commitment to equity and the declaration of racism as a public health crisis, the plan charts a course toward a healthier, more equitable future for all residents. Read more.
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New discount available for Method Learning academic tutoring
King County employees can now receive a 20% discount for courses available through Method Learning academic tutoring. Method Learning is a proven college readiness service that provides tutoring and helps guide students on their academic journey.
For more details and to take advantage of the discount, click here. Services available include college admissions advising, college financial advising, ACT and SAT test prep, academic coaching, and much more.
See all available employee discounts on the Employee Discount webpage.
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New podcast miniseries explores the wide world of septic systems
Crossposted from Public Health Insider
What happens when we flush a toilet, or turn off a sink tap? For most of us, we don’t give much thought to it – out of sight, out of mind. But once we walk away, what goes down the drain begins a whole new journey through the wastewater system.
In King County, over 85,000 homes and businesses rely on septic systems to treat their wastewater and protect their health every day. But what is a septic system? What happens when it fails, and what happens to our health and the environment when many start failing? Finally, who are the people that respond to these emergencies, and what keeps them going?
These questions, and more, are addressed in a new environmental health podcast, Bridging the Gap. Through storytelling, we aim to bring people closer to understanding how environmental public health shows up in our everyday lives, and how we can all help keep our community healthy. Join us in listening to our first three-episode miniseries, which explores the wonderful world of wastewater known as On-site Sewage/Septic Systems (OSS)! Read more.
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Backpack giveaway event at Overcomer Covenant Church
Last week, the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) joined forces with Overcomer Covenant Church to distribute backpacks to the South King County community.
In partnership with Mission Africa, the church generously provided 500 backpacks filled with school supplies to local children. This event also offered valuable community resources and snacks for all attendees.
Sgt. R. Nishimura and Deputy K. Ray staffed the KCSO booth, spreading joy by distributing frisbees, bracelets, and stickers to the excited kids. Officers were particularly moved by a young child who took an immediate liking to Deputy Ray and expressed her aspiration to become a police officer, showing the positive impact of our engagement with the community.
It was a heartwarming day of community support, reaffirming KCSO’s commitment to partnering with faith-based communities.
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First-of-its-kind behavioral health crisis center opens in north King County
Crossposted from Cultivating Connections
On Aug. 12, Connections Health Solutions and the City of Kirkland opened the region’s first walk-in 24/7 behavioral health crisis center along with partner cities of Bothell, Kenmore, Lake Forest Park, and Shoreline.
The new crisis center will provide walk-in urgent care and continued stabilization for people experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis. Its opening completes the first fully connected local crisis care system for behavioral health in King County: connecting and providing our North King County community members with someone to call (988 or the Regional Crisis Connections Line), someone to respond (mobile crisis teams) and now somewhere to go plus someone to follow up (crisis care centers). This is the system we are working to create countywide through the Crisis Care Centers Initiative. Read more.
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