Grantee: Encompass Northwest
Timeframe: July 2024 – June 2027 | Amount: $280,756.64
- Year 1: July 2024 – June 2025 | Amount: $85,132.53
- Year 2: July 2025 – June 2026 | Amount: $94,099.38
- Year 3: July 2026 – June 2027 | Amount: $101,524.73
This project has enabled Encompass to expand its Community-Based Services (CBS), bringing pediatric therapy directly to 22 daycares, preschools, and private schools.
In the primarily rural Snoqualmie Valley, many families face significant barriers to accessing care, including transportation, language, financial hardship, and limited local healthcare options. Encompass is the only local pediatric therapy provider that accepts Medicaid and offers an Early Childhood Education Assistance Program (ECEAP) preschool for low-income families. It is also one of 19 neurodevelopmental centers in Washington State.
CBS was developed in response to community feedback about the challenges families face attending appointments and the growing need for on-site services in childcare settings. By providing occupational therapy, behavioral health, speech and language therapy, feeding therapy, developmental evaluations, and screenings where children learn and play, the program reduces barriers to care, supports consistent participation, and strengthens collaboration with families and educators.
PHPDA funding supports a Program Coordinator who improves scheduling, intake, communication, outreach, and caregiver education, allowing therapists to focus on direct services while expanding the program into additional rural communities. Encompass also continues to operate its PHPDA-funded Mobile Therapy Unit, but growing demand has demonstrated the need for both mobile and community-based therapy services.
In Year 3, Encompass will expand the program by hiring additional occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapy assistants, and speech-language pathology assistants to increase capacity and meet the growing demand for pediatric therapy services throughout rural King County.
ABOUT OUR GRANTEE
“Encompass is a nonprofit that partners with families in the Snoqualmie Valley, Issaquah, and Eastside communities to build healthy foundations for children of all abilities.
At Encompass, we passionately believe that every family deserves a place to turn when they need help. Through Early Learning, Pediatric Therapy, and Family Enrichment programs for children ages 0-8 and their families, Encompass has given thousands of children the foundation they need to get the right start—and thrive for a lifetime.
With locations in Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Carnation, plus a host of programs offered at community locations and in the home, Encompass supports children and families across the Snoqualmie Valley and greater Eastside. Just like parents, we hold ourselves to the highest standard as we reach out to and embrace children—as if they were our own—at the most critical stage in their development.”
