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Center for Policing Equity: Designing Public Safety, Substance Abuse
April 11, 2024
CPE paper recognizes LEAD as a strategy to address substance use through community-based harm reduction…
They’re Not Cops. They Don’t Have Guns. But They’re Responding to More 911 Calls.
March 25, 2024
LEAD looks beyond crises and emergencies and seeks to promote non-police responses to chronic, low-level…
Meet the Deputy Directors!
March 12, 2024
Purpose Dignity Action (PDA) has exciting news to share about an evolution in our leadership…
PDA works to resolve U District encampment
March 6, 2024
How does an encampment get resolved, and resolved well, without displacement or chaos? Months of…
Seattle’s Third Avenue Project Model Report
November 16, 2023
Katherine Beckett and Marco Brydolf-Horwitz of University of Washington review Seattle’s Third Avenue Project (TAP)…
- TAP
Human services workers deserve a living wage
November 14, 2023
The Seattle City Council is poised to vote on a budget that includes pay increases…
Find your passion – get involved
November 1, 2023
By Dezerae Rawlings, PDA Operations Associate Each month, we have the opportunity to remember historical…
PDA RFP Calls for Service Providers
September 26, 2023
PDA seeks organizations to provide case management and outreach to clients eligible for LEAD, a…
A couple survived five years on the streets. A new home brings joy – and uncertainty
August 20, 2023
- CoLEAD
- LEAD
PDA Statement on Mayor Harrell’s Proposed Public Drug Use Legislation
August 2, 2023
The drug problem facing Seattle has no easy answers. Jail and prosecution generally aren’t the…
- LEAD
- TAP
- CoLEAD
- JustCARE
Moving Beyond Possession and Public Use: Let’s Be the City That Makes Real Progress on the Drug Crisis
June 2, 2023
- LEAD
- CoLEAD
Will WA’s New Drug Law Help or Hurt People Struggling With Addiction?
May 19, 2023
PDA’s Malika Lamont and Lisa Daugaard are among those concerned that the new state drug…