For many of us, our lives have drastically changed in the past year. We’ve been forced to re-evaluate our routines, we’ve started cooking more at home, and we’ve learned new information about our health…
This past year, 876 volunteers donated 24,000 hours to support our critical work, which offset more than $684,960 in program costs that we rely on to continue providing medically tailored meals and culturally relevant grocery bags, safe and stable housing, and other critical health services to thousands of neighbors facing illness and poverty.
As we all age, we’re prone to chronic conditions like arthritis, heart disease, and strokes. Healthy eating, exercise, and regular medical check-ups can help prevent many of these ailments, but only if you have access. Nutritious food is one thing that can go a long way to prevent you from developing diabetes or cardiovascular disease.
For people living with serious illnesses like diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, and HIV, it’s vital to have access to nutritious food to better manage their illness and reduce symptoms, but for those who can’t access healthy food that’s tailored to their medical needs, they risk seeing their health decline further or worse: it can end up costing them their life.
The pandemic showed us that our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work is more crucial than ever. We must advance our agency, both internally and externally, to support the people in our community whose health and lives depend on us to dismantle these racist systems right here in Washington State.
Each year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History designates a theme for Black History Month. It’s not surprising that 2022 is Health and Wellness, which is especially important as we enter into the third year of coping with the impacts of COVID-19, as well as February also being American Heart Month.
Join our team of people dedicated to improving health for all! When you work at Lifelong, you become part of our mission to remove barriers to health with relentless compassion so no one faces illness and injustice alone. Check out our current list of opportunities and hear from Max, a longtime staff member, on why he loves working at Lifelong.
I recently came across a medical report that stopped me in my tracks. I had seen it before, but its implications to today are goosebump-inducing. It was dated June 1, 1981 – an article from the CDC reporting five patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia. It was the first published report of the AIDS pandemic.
Latinx communities are disproportionately affected by COVID, other serious illnesses, and poverty. As racism continues to be a public health crisis, we’ve been working with organizations in our area to better fight for those facing illness and injustice alongside those who work closest with those communities.
Alex has participated in our annual Seattle AIDS Walk event for the past two decades and donates to support our vital health services, and recently signed up to deliver nutritious food and our quarterly home essential kits to neighbors in the greater Seattle area, but even so, he wanted to do more to give back.
