Friends of Fircrest is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization advocating for the rights to
quality living choices for all people with developmental disabilities. Friends of Fircrest
provides support to residents of Fircrest School.
The Role of Fircrest School
Mission:
Fircrest provides specialized, high-quality personalized service to the most challenging individuals with developmental disabilities. These services are consistently provided in a manner and environment that assumes, as the highest priority, client respect, dignity, and individualism.
Location:
Fircrest School is located in the city of Shoreline, just north of Seattle. Fircrest is the only state Residential Habilitation Center (RHC) located within the Puget Sound urban corridor. Its location ensures that there is a choice in care for people with severe developmental disabilities living in the state's largest urban area. Not everyone can live at home or in private contracted residential services. Some people need the structure, support, and ready access to 24-hour medical care found at RHCs such as Fircrest School.
Resident population:
Fircrest serves a diverse population of people with developmental disabilities
who are medically fragile and multiply handicapped, with profound
intellectual disabilities, and behavior challenges.
Academic connections:
Fircrest has vital research relationships with the University of Washington,
University of Kansas and other institutions that are helping to advance the care of persons with the most severe developmental disabilities.
Services:
Fircrest has provided vital services to its own residents, and to individuals with developmental disabilities living in nearby communities and elsewhere in the state. These services include health care; nursing; dental care; psychological, physical, occupational, speech and behavior therapies; adaptive technologies; and recreational activities.
Respite care:
Fircrest provides respite services to people with developmental disabilities who do not live on the Fircrest campus. These individuals come to Fircrest for a temporary stay
giving their families a much-needed break. While
there, they benefit from access to specialized professional
services or find Fircrest to be a less restrictive
environment. Fircrest also provides temporary emergency admissions to people who reside outside Fircrest who are mentally and physically disabled and in crisis.
Services offered to those residing outside Fircrest:
Fircrest School has been able to offer assistive technology, wheelchair modifications, dental and medical care, and other therapies that may not always be available from private vendors for people with developmental
disabilities. Do you have a family member who could benefit from these services?
Services offered by Fircrest residents
The Adult Training Program (ATP) at Fircrest offers vocational training and employment opportunities to selected residents. Through this program, services are offered to local businesses at very reasonable prices, and the participating Fircrest residents are paid for their work. The offered services include mailing, sorting, packaging, and confidential document destruction. For additional information, please download the
ATP flyer. (46 KB PDF)
Admission to Fircrest: Do you have a family member who could benefit from residing at Fircrest School? DSHS offers an application form for admission to an RHC. The form is available on the DSHS website in MS Word format only. Alternatively, as a convenience, you can download the same form here in either
MS Word format (31 kB) or in
PDF format (35 kB).
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and
the blind can see."
-- Mark Twain
Friends of Fircrest is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization
advocating for the rights to quality living choices for
all people with developmental disabilities.
Fircrest School
15230 15th NE
Shoreline, WA 98155
(206) 361-2990
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