Peace Heathens' Seattle Crisis Resource Directory

This is the online version of the Peace Heathens' Seattle Crisis Resource Directory. The Crisis Resource Directory began life in 1989 as a pamphlet, which has now gone through five editions; as of December 2002, over 22,000 copies of that pamphlet have been distributed.

We are actively seeking a donation of printing costs for a seventh print edition. In early 2001, we had the rather disappointing experience of getting the Fifth Edition ready to go to press and then lacking the means to print any significant number of copies; the sixth edition ended up with a press run of perhaps 2,000 copies. Even with the expanding availablility of the Internet, there are still many people who could use this information and whom we can reach only by getting it to them on paper. Ideally, we seek a printer who is willing to donate paper and services, but we would consider any other form of assistance.

We first took this on line through Seattle Community Network in the summer of '94 when the Internet was still "exotic." At that time, some people ridiculed the notion of putting crisis resource information on line. Nowadays, when it is literally easier to get a home page than a home, the need is clear for such fundamental information to be available through the Net.

This information exists to be used and to be distributed. Feel free to copy all or part of the Crisis Resource Directory for any non-commercial purpose. Notification and credit would be appreciated.

Take what you need, give back what you can. These services exist to be used. Most of them also need volunteers.

Inclusion of a given agency or service on this site does not imply endorsement. We have tried to list organizations that are useful to people who need help. Sometimes we're wrong. Sometimes an agency which is of great help to one person will be useless or worse to another.

"800"; numbers let you call without a coin from a pay phone, but they cost the receiver of the call money. Please, if you're calling from a home phone in Greater Seattle, use the local phone number. Saves them money, costs you nothing.

The Peace Heathens are a grass-roots, street-level collective of free-spirited but highly motivated individuals. We treasure the cultural and sub-cultural diversity of this city. We are working for a sane, peaceful, diverse and mutually tolerant society, a world of social and economic justice, sustainable ecology, and fair distribution of wealth. Peace in the world at large begins in each community and ultimately with each person.

The Peace Heathens promote this vision through a variety of means, especially non-violent direct action. Since 1988 we've been involved in activities ranging from the previous editions of this book to organizing a variety of free concerts and benefit concerts to doing security for political demonstrations to giving away food and clothing. Members of the group have been involved as individuals in projects ranging from needle exchange to information policy. (Please don't share needles. Please don't trust the phone company. We love you.)

If your organization would like multiple copies of our existing sixth edition or our forthcoming seventh edition to distribute, please send a letter of request on letterhead paper to

        Seattle Peace Heathens
        6911 Twelfth Ave. NE
        Seattle, WA 98115-6751

We would like to thank

        Night Rider Overnight Copy Service
        112 Seneca
        Seattle, WA 98101
        (206) 223-9066

for printing 10,000 copies of our fourth edition free of charge. Donations like this allow us to distribute the Crisis Resource Directory as a free pamphlet. We currently (February 2004) need a donor for printing the Seventh Edition.

The Peace Heathens have always tried to handle sensitive information in an appropriate manner. In December 2000, we decided to articulate our privacy policy more formally.