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Developmental Disabilities Division

Chinook Building
401 5th Avenue, Suite 520
Seattle, WA 98104

ddd@kingcounty.gov
Phone: 206-263-9061
Fax: 206-205-1632
TTY: 711 Relay Service

Department: Community and Human Services

Employment Service Providers


Key to Services:

CA = Community Access (for retired individuals)
GSE = Group Supported Employment
IE = Individual Employment
PIE = Pathway to Individual Employment (also called Person to Person)
PVS = Pre-Vocational Services/Specialized Industries
S2W = School to Work


Service Definitions:

Community Access - assists individuals with developmental disabilities ages 62 and older to participate in activities, events and organizations in their community in ways similar to others of retirement age.

Group Supported Employment – assists three or more people (up to eight) with developmental disabilities to work in a group in the community in regular business settings and prepare for work in individual integrated community-based employment settings.

Individual Employment – assists individuals with developmental disabilities to obtain and maintain employment in individual integrated community-based employment settings.

Pathway to Individual Employment – assists individuals with developmental disabilities to develop individual pathway to employment plans according to his/her preference to pursue or maintain employment in individual integrated community-based employment settings.

Pre-Vocational Services – assists individuals with developmental disabilities in large group workshop settings to develop skills and prepare for work in individual integrated community-based employment settings.

School to Work – assists high school students with developmental disabilities to leave school with jobs in individual integrated community-based employment settings.


Service Providers:

Asian Counseling and Referral Services (IE, PTP)
3639 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way S
Seattle, WA  98126
Phone:  206-695-7518
Fax:  206-695-7606
www.acrs.org

AtWork! (CA, GSE, IE, PIE, PVS, S2W)
1935 152nd Place NE
Bellevue, WA  98007
Phone:  425-274-4000
Fax:  425-274-4010
www.atwork-issaquah.com/

CARES of Washington (IE, PIE, S2W)
1833 N 105th St. Suite 201
Seattle, WA 98133
Phone:  206-938-1253
Fax:  206-935-0949
www.caresofwa.org/

Centerforce (GSE, IE, PVS, PIE)
5204 Solberg Drive SW
Lakewood, WA 98499
Phone:  253-584-1001 / 1-800-244-4597
Fax:  253-581-4741
www.centerforce.net/

Cliffside Inc. dba Cliffside Vocational (GSE)
29923 34th Avenue S, Suite B
Auburn, WA  98001
Phone:  206-763-2426

Community Psychiatric Clinic (StepWorks) (PIE, S2W)
11000 Lake  City Way NE, Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98125
Phone:  206-461-3614
www.cpcwa.org/

Eastside Employment Services (IE, PIE, S2W)
1215 120th Avenue NE, Suite 101
Bellevue, WA 98005
Phone:  425-453-0676
Fax:  425-453-0338
www.eside.org/

ENSO (PIE)
16300 Christensen Rd., Suite 104
Tukwila, WA 98188
Phone:  206-829-2001, Ext. 11
www.enso.ws/

Highline Community College, District 9 (CA, IE, PIE)
P.O. Box 98000, MS 99-180
Des Moines, WA 98198
Phone:  206-878-3710, Ext. 3349
Fax:  206-878-7247
www.flightline.highline.edu/ces/

Seeds4Success-Vashon (PIE)
P.O. Box 2501
17205 Vashon Hwy SW, Suite D-2
Vashon Island, WA  98070
Phone:  206-370-0709

L. Turner Associates, Inc. (CA)
P.O. Box 15352
Seattle, WA 98115
Phone:  206-524-5751
Fax: Number:  206-522-7786
LiTurner@aol.com

Northwest Center Employment (GSE, IE, PIE, PVS, S2W)
P.O. Box 80827
7272 W. Marginal Way S.
Seattle, WA 98108
Phone:  206-285-9140
Fax: 206-286-2300
www.nwcenter.org/

Provail (CA, IE, PIE, S2W)
12550 Aurora Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98133
Phone:  206-826-1053
www.provail.org/

Puget Sound Personnel Inc. (IE, PIE, S2W)
50 116th Avenue SE, Suite 211
Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: 4 25-562-1231 
Fax:  425-562-1439
www.pspwork.com/

Rehabco (PIE)
P.O. Box 1105
117 N. First Street, Suite 20
Mt. Vernon, WA  98273
Phone:  360-336-3136
Fax:  360-336-1099

Seattle Central Community College – Mainstay (IE, PIE, S2W)
Mailing address:  1701 Broadway, 2NP101  Seattle WA  98122
Street address:  1801 Broadway North Plaza 101 
Phone:  206-587-3813
Fax:  206-287-5533
www.mainstay.org/

Service Alternative Community and Employment Services (IE, PIE, S2W)
1833 N. 105th, Suite 101
Seattle, WA  98133
Phone:  206-478-4894
Fax:  866-850-2450
www.servalt.com

Shoreline Community College - Community Integration Program (PIE)
16101 Greenwood Avenue N.
Seattle, WA  98133
Phone: 206-546-5823
Fax: 206-533-5109
www.shoreline.edu/catspecialarea.html

SKCAC Industries and Employment Services (GSE, IE, PVS)
19731 Russell Road S.
Kent, WA 98032
Phone:  253-395-1240
Fax:  253-395-1243
www.skcac.com/

Sound Employment Services (IE, PIE, S2W)
709 NE Northlake Way
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone:  206-634-3459
Fax:  206-634-2043

Sound Mental Health (IE, PIE)
1600 E. Olive Street
Seattle, WA 98122
Phone:  206-302-2200
www.smh.org/

Sunrise Services, Inc. dba Community Trades and Careers (IE, PIE, S2W)
17962 Midvale Avenue N., Suite 232
P.O. Box 7368
Shoreline, WA  98133
Phone:  425-347-3149
Fax:  206-546-0305
www.sunrisecommunityliving.com/

The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. (GSE)
2501 S. Plum Street
P.O. Box 14959
Seattle, WA  98144
Phone:  206-322-4200
Fax:  206-329-3397
www.seattlelighthouse.org/

Total Living Concept (PIE)
1132 W. James Street
Kent, WA  98032
Phone:  253-419-4069
Fax:  253-854-0604
www.totallivingconcept.org

Trillium (IE, PIE, S2W)
P.O. Box 206
Auburn, WA  98071
201 Auburn Way North, Suite B
Auburn, WA 98002
Phone:  253-735-1553
Fax:  253-735-0494
www.trillium.org/

University of Washington-Employment Program (IE, PIE, S2W) 
Box 357920
Seattle, WA 98195-7920
Phone:  206-543-6387
Fax:  206-543-4779
http://uwep.washington.edu/

Vadis (IE, PTP, S2W)
723 SW Tenth Street, Suite 200
Renton, WA 98057
Phone:  425-264-0888
Fax:  425-264-1498

1701 Elm Street
Sumner, WA 98390
Phone:  253-863-5173
Fax:  253-863-2040
www.vadis.org

Washington State Employment Security (IE, S2W)
2531 Rainier Ave. S. 
Seattle, WA 98144
Phone:  206-721-5987
Fax:  206-721-4537

Washington Vocational Services (IE, PTP)
22316 70th Avenue West, Suite D
Mountlake Terrace, WA  98043-2184
Phone: 425-774-3338
Fax: 425-744-1555

Work Opportunities (GSE, IE, PIE, PVS, S2W)
6515 202nd Street SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036
Phone:  425-778-2156
www.workopportunities.org/


Miscellaneous Services

Elder & Adult Day Services
12831 NE 21st Place
Bellevue, WA  98005
Phone:  425-867-1799
Fax:  425-881-8578

Seattle Children's Home
2142 Tenth Avenue W
Seattle, WA  98119
Phone:  206-298-9679
Fax:  206-284-7843

Senior Services
2208 Second Avenue, Suite 100
Seattle, WA  98121
Phone:  206-727-6201
Fax:  206-448-5766

The Arc of King County
233 Sixth Avenue North
Seattle, WA  98109
Phone:  206-829-7005
Fax:  206-364-8140

Technical Assistance Agencies

O’Neill and Associates, LLC 
12932 Kent Kangley Road
Kent, WA 98031
Phone:  206-390-6830
Fax: 206-763-7271
E-mail:  www.oneillandassociates.com

Washington Initiative for Supported Employment (WiSe)
100 S. King Street, Suite 260
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-343-0881
TTY:  206-343-8544
Fax:  206-343-2078
www.theinitiative.ws/