News & Updates

Individuals and community groups are coming together with creative strategies for how to use spaces - homes, extra buildings, lots - for local and accessible housing.

Grooming is a term used to describe the behaviors used by one person to gain trust and manipulate a more vulnerable person with the intention of perpetrating abuse or exploitation. It’s important to be able to understand the early warning signs of grooming.

With the year coming to an end, we reflect on all of the ways that we have experienced joy and gratitude in the last year. Here at Room One, joy comes in many forms, but it’s almost always rooted in relationships with one another. That can look like staff collaboration, one-on-one meetings with clients or Room One supporters, board meetings, parenting groups, community partnerships, or working with youth and elders.

Read about the draft resolution declaring a housing emergency, Room One's housing and homelessness supports, the Housing Solutions Network, and our new Host Home program.

Our growers/donors have been Willowbrook Farms, Okanogan Produce Alliance, Art Heinemann, Kelleigh McMillan, and Yonder Farm.

Over the past three months, Room One has offered a monthly free legal clinic for clients who are struggling with a variety of family law issues. Advocates refer clients to volunteer attorneys after completing a preliminary eligibility screening.

Room One will be breaking ground soon in the side yard of the Lincoln Street property to build a new Client Services Building! With a generous infrastructure grant from a private foundation and a full staff and busy programming, the time has come to expand.

After nearly two years, Room One is delighted to introduce our next Executive Director, Katrina (Kat) Goering. During the interim time period, board and staff were able to do important work together envisioning our next leader and the current needs of our organization and community.

Get hyped for winter with TGR's new ski and snowboard film Stoke the Fire on the big screen. Get your tickets now to get ready for winter the best way possible, plus have a shot at prize giveaways from TGR's partners, including a trip to our hometown Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, an epic prize pack from Sierra Nevada, plus gear from YETI, Atomic, The North Face, Volkl, Tincup Whiskey and more.

Our Okanogan Healthy Youth work continues, particularly with the highly engaging Youth Leadership Council (YLC), co-led by Room One staff Keri Moore and FYRE co-founder Mady Sandoval.