Vine Maple Place has been named Bonneville Seattle’s Charity of the Month for February, for assisting families in crisis by helping single parents and their children build lives of hope, stability and greater economic self-sufficiency.

Vine Maple Place provides direct support services, which include financial literacy training, employment and livable-wage development, case management, child care and advocacy, life skills development, and housing assistance.

Vine Maple Place became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity to serve homeless children and their families in the year 2000 after several Maple Valley churches contributed to the purchase of eight apartments to use as transitional housing. In 2012, Vine Maple Place expanded programs to include offering direct services to single-parent families who are not currently homeless, but in imminent danger of losing their housing.

For more information about Vine Maple Place, visit their website at vinemapleplace.org.