A one-time group class for individuals who wish to learn more about money management, finances, and budgeting. Class typically lasts for one hour and participants receive a certificate upon completion. No child care is available.
A one-time group class for individuals who wish to learn more about money management, finances, and budgeting. Class typically lasts for one hour and participants receive a certificate upon completion. No child care is available. Call for dates and times.
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Zoom and in-person appointments available.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Provides classes designed to increase knowledge of how to save, spend, and invest money. Also helps potential tenants find housing sign a lease and become a good tenant.
Financial Literacy and Rental Education (F.L.A.R.E.) is a series of FREE classes designed to increase adults’ knowledge of their individual money habits and attitudes, saving strategies, tracking spending, budget skills and credit along with the basic skills to become a competent renter. F.L.A.R.E. counts as a WorkFirst activity for TANF participants.
Bundles together employment coaching, financial coaching, and access to public benefits through comprehensive case management for economically vulnerable households throughout Pierce County.
Bundles together employment coaching, financial coaching, and access to public benefits through comprehensive case management for economically vulnerable households throughout Pierce County.
Service is based on established research on the most affective services.
Offers a Financial Opportunity Center that provides integrated services through Workforce Development, Financial Coaching, and Income Supports. A team of coaches works closely with the family over a three year period.
Offers individuals and households the ability to build financial stability and self-sufficiency for their unique situation. Offers these services as part of the Centers for Strong Families network
FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY CENTER (FOC) SERVICES:
1. Integrated coaching services;
- Employment coaching: Job readiness, employment training, and assistance looking for job are essential parts of what is offered at a Financial Opportunity Center site. A job and opportunities for advancement are the platform that supports a family's financial well-being, and employment services are the initial reason many clients begin working with an FOC.
- Financial Coaching: helps clients do a better job in how they handle their money. The goal is for a family to examine their savings and spending habits to see if they can make positive changes that improve their credit scores and stabilize and grow their assets. Income Supports access can be crucial for giving a worker the time and income necessary to fulfill training to reach a better paying position and career. Coaches helps clients work through the disjointed network of public benefits and helps individuals access all of the services and supports for which they are eligible.
2. Financial Education: Every individual has a unique situation and the ability to build financial stability and self-sufficiency. Our Financial Education course offers the tools to help you achieve your financial goals. Improving credit, paying off student loans, working to own a home and planning for retirement are some of the many topics covered in our no-cost training for our community.
- Tacoma Public Utility low-income customers may qualify to receive up to an $160 credit for completing our Financial Education program and attending a Financial coaching session.
3. Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA): the VITA program provides free Federal tax return preparation to households with income under $65,000. VITA sites prepare current years taxes by appointment only, and may prepare up to 3 years back tax return upon request and limited by availability.
Goodwill's Financial Opportunity Center® is supported by United Way of Pierce County & the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Offers personalized coaching and workshops to help customers improve financial literacy, manage credit, and plan for financial self-sufficiency.
Offers full-time financial coaches who provide one-on-one coaching and workshops.
Services include customized financial guidance on budgeting, credit management, banking, and financial goal setting.
Helps develop financial plans, address income changes, and navigate the challenges of the "benefits cliff."
Service is provided as a partnership between WorkSource, Sound Outreach, United Way and the Multicultural Child & Family Hope Center.
Provides a comprehensive family, career, and education-based approach to help students with 1:1 Coaching, Job Search & Retention, Life & Family skills, Money Management, and Vocational or Continuing education preparation.
Offers classes and referrals for people who want to change the direction of their lives but lack the resources to do so. The program follows a comprehensive family, career, and education-based approach to help students with 1:1 Coaching, Job Search & Retention, Life & Family skills, Money Management, and Vocational or Continuing education preparation.
Financial assistance information is available at the Family Service Center. Services include budget review, individual financial counseling, and budget analysis.
Financial assistance information is available at the Family Service Center. Services include budget review, individual financial counseling, and budget analysis. Financial education programs are presented on a regular basis for military personnel and their family members. The Financial Specialist is available for General Military Training presentations on request.
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Zoom and in-person appointments available.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Helps provide financial security for women and their families in King County through classes, coaching and training; offered in English and Spanish. Has a course specifically for survivors of domestic violence.
Helps provide financial security for women and their families in King County through classes, coaching and training.
Classes include:
Hope & Power for Your Personal Finances: This 10-week class supports survivors of domestic violence to become financially independent and build confidence in their own skills. Topics covered include:
- Safety planning and goal setting
- Budgeting and savings
- Checking and bank accounts
- Credit reports and scores
- Avoiding predatory lenders
- Taxes and legal issues
- Protecting yourself with insurance
- Housing, education, employment
Money Mechanics Workshop: Free 5-week workshop for anyone who feels like their finances could use a tune-up, especially people who are low-income, unemployed or currently or recently homeless. Over four sessions, learn new skills and gain a new understanding of your finances, including:
- Unmasking the mysteries of credit
- Debt management
- Budgeting and banking
- Goal setting
- Saving and investing
Includes one-on-one coaching with a certified financial coach, and a two-to-one matched incentivized savings program.
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Offers in-person and Zoom appointments.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Provides housing case management, financial counseling, and limited, emergency rental assistance to individuals and households who are at imminent risk of homelessness.
Provides housing case management, financial counseling, and limited, emergency rental assistance to individuals and households who are at imminent risk of homelessness.
Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Assists active and retired Navy and Marine Corps members, and their eligible family members, to achieve financial self-sufficiency. Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Provides one-on-one financial education, counseling and coaching to people with disabilities and their families. Various financial issues addressed.
Provides one-on-one financial education, counseling and coaching to people with disabilities and their families.
Assistance includes:
- Benefits coaching
- Taking control of debt
- Dealing with debt collectors
- Developing new credit.
- Improving credit and FICO scores
- Creating and managing a budget
- Opening and maintenance of affordable mainstream bank accounts.
- Identity theft resources
- Setting up an ABLE account
Also provides connection to other services including tax preparation and legal advice for various financial issues
Helps provide financial security for women and their families in King County through classes, coaching and training; offered in English and Spanish. Has a course specifically for survivors of domestic violence.
Helps provide financial security for women and their families in King County through classes, coaching and training.
Classes include:
Hope & Power for Your Personal Finances: This 10-week class supports survivors of domestic violence to become financially independent and build confidence in their own skills. Topics covered include:
- Safety planning and goal setting
- Budgeting and savings
- Checking and bank accounts
- Credit reports and scores
- Avoiding predatory lenders
- Taxes and legal issues
- Protecting yourself with insurance
- Housing, education, employment
Money Mechanics Workshop: Free 5-week workshop for anyone who feels like their finances could use a tune-up, especially people who are low-income, unemployed or currently or recently homeless. Over four sessions, learn new skills and gain a new understanding of your finances, including:
- Unmasking the mysteries of credit
- Debt management
- Budgeting and banking
- Goal setting
- Saving and investing
Includes one-on-one coaching with a certified financial coach, and a two-to-one matched incentivized savings program.
Helps students stay enrolled in school through benefits enrollment, homelessness prevention, campus food pantry, and referrals to other support services. Must be an enrolled student taking classes worth at least six credits. Zoom and in-person appointments available.
Helps college students stay enrolled in school by offering benefits access, financial coaching, income supports, and referrals to other support services.
Limited emergency financial grants available for homelessness prevention and emergencies.
Students meet one-on-one with a coach to discuss college and career goals.
Appointments typically last one hour, but there is no limit to the number of appointments.
Typical areas of assistance:
- Managing debt
- Signing up for ORCA LIFT, SNAP/EBT, health insurance, WIC, etc.
- Building credit & pulling credit reports
- Budgeting
- Scholarships
- Tax preparation
- Access to on-campus food pantry
- Referrals to additional resources
Assists active, retired, and their eligible family members of navy personnel to achieve financial self-sufficiency. Help to educate, empower and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Assists active and retired Navy and Marine Corps members, and their eligible family members, to achieve financial self-sufficiency. Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Helps provide financial security for women and their families in King County through classes, coaching and training; offered in English and Spanish. Has a course specifically for survivors of domestic violence.
Helps provide financial security for women and their families in King County through classes, coaching and training.
Classes include:
Hope & Power for Your Personal Finances: This 10-week class supports survivors of domestic violence to become financially independent and build confidence in their own skills. Topics covered include:
- Safety planning and goal setting
- Budgeting and savings
- Checking and bank accounts
- Credit reports and scores
- Avoiding predatory lenders
- Taxes and legal issues
- Protecting yourself with insurance
- Housing, education, employment
Money Mechanics Workshop: Free 5-week workshop for anyone who feels like their finances could use a tune-up, especially people who are low-income, unemployed or currently or recently homeless. Over four sessions, learn new skills and gain a new understanding of your finances, including:
- Unmasking the mysteries of credit
- Debt management
- Budgeting and banking
- Goal setting
- Saving and investing
Includes one-on-one coaching with a certified financial coach, and a two-to-one matched incentivized savings program.
Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Assists active and retired Navy and Marine Corps members, and their eligible family members, to achieve financial self-sufficiency. Helps to educate, empower, and partner with clients in implementing the basics of responsible money management.
Register online. Workshop that teaches how to manage and budget finances. Located at Fifth & Stone, inside Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center.
Financial empowerment workshops to help people learn to understand money, debt, and credit information.
Provides financial counseling and grants among junior active duty enlisted members and recently discharged enlisted Veterans and their families facing financial crisis.
Provides financial counseling and may help with a grant to cover critical needs for qualifying military households.
Grants provided but not limited to:
- Bereavement Travel
- Car Insurance
- Critical baby items( cribs, car seats, diapers etc.)
- Major car repairs
- Medical Travel
- Rent/Utilities
- Sewer service
- Service Dog Care
The Fleet & Family Support Program is here to support you and stands ready to assist with every career and life change. Contact our Centralized Scheduling Center for individual, marriage and family counseling, class reservations, individual resume assistance, financial counseling, relocation assistance or deployment/mobilization support anywhere in the Pacific Northwest.