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Phone: 206-296-4600
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Toll-free: 800-325-6165

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Community Health Access Program (CHAP)

CHAP is a telephone assistance program serving King County residents by connecting them to health insurance, healthy homes and other resources. CHAP services are free and confidential. Call us today for help at 1-800-756-5437.

What we do:

  • Encourage community partners to be involved in this effort and providing coordination and technical assistance,
  • Provide education and training to community partners and families,
  • Ensure our partners have current information and materials needed to assist their constituencies, and
  • Provide advocacy and problem solving on health care access issues on a community and individual basis.

Our vision: Equal access to health care regardless of income, ethnicity, language and immigration status.

Download the CHAP brochure (PDF)

Why use CHAP

If you need help finding affordable:

  • Healthcare or insurance
  • Health -- screening services
  • Doctors, dentist, midwives or nurses
  • Medical or dental clinics with sliding fess
  • Support services
  • Prenatal care

If you have questions about:

For children and teenagers
  • CHAP provides information on screenings for child development;
  • CHAP offers Family Resources Coordination for children under the age of three (3) with special needs; and
  • CHAP connects you with support services such as Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition or counseling programs.
Women
  • CHAP helps find pregnancy testing and prenatal care;
  • CHAP connects with maternity support services (MSS) and WIC programs;
  • CHAP provides family planning and birth control information; and
  • CHAP helps find free and low-cost mammograms and women's health exams.