(Not an emergency service) Makes referrals for clients to pick up personal and household items, such as:
-  Clothing 
-  Household linens 
-  Furniture 
-  Baby supplies 
-  Cleaning supplies 
-  Personal hygiene supplies 
-  Kitchen items 

Referrals are sent to the Connection Center by churches, ministries, agencies, or directly from clients. This agency is a network of local churches and ministries for the purpose of meeting needs.

Community Needs offered at Love INC of Yakima County

(Not an emergency service) Provides clothing, personal hygiene supplies, cleaning supplies, baby items, linens, kitchen items and referrals to other community resources.

Programs that pay for or provide brooms, mops, dust pans, cleansing powder, dish washing soap, paper towels, window cleaner, furniture polish, trash bags and other cleaning equipment and/or supplies for people to use to clean their homes.

Cleaning Products

Programs that pay for or provide soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, combs, brushes, cotton swabs, deodorant, facial tissue, toilet paper and other personal hygiene/grooming supplies for homeless people and other individuals who need them.

Personal/Grooming Supplies

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand coats, gloves, hats, scarves and other winter clothing.

Winter Clothing

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand clothing and layettes for infants and young children.

Baby Clothing

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand sheets, blankets, pillowcases, bedspreads, curtains, towels and other similar household essentials.

Bedding/Linen

Programs that pay for or provide cloth or disposable diapers.

Diapers

Programs that provide furniture for people who need it. Available items depend on what has been donated and is on hand at any given time. The collection may include but does not specialize in adapted furniture, baby furniture or other specific items.

General Furniture Provision

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand dishes, utensils, food storage containers and other cookware.

Kitchenware

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand mattresses. Included are mattress liquidators.

Mattresses

Programs, often available through senior centers, neighborhood centers, homeless shelters or  drop in centers, or other similar organizations, that offer the on-site services of beauticians, barbers and/or manicurists for people who need to have their hair or nails done. Services may include hair coloring treatment, permanent waves, haircuts, shaves, wash and sets, manicures and cosmetic pedicures which improve the appearance of the feet and toenails. Also included are programs that provide haircuts for homeless people, children from low-income families returning to school and other targeted individuals.

Hair and Nail Care

Programs that accept new or secondhand clothing, repair the items if necessary, and keep the clothing for use in their own programs, donate it to shelters and other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell it to raise money for agency programs. These programs accept donations of all types of clothing including children's clothes, work clothes, maternity clothes and shoes rather than specialize in a particular type of clothing.

General Clothing Donation Programs

Programs that provide clothing for people who need it. Available items depend on what has been donated and is on hand at any given time. The collection may include but does not specialize in children's clothes, work clothes, maternity clothes and shoes.

General Clothing Provision

Programs that accept new or secondhand sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dressers, rugs and other necessary home furnishings, refurbish them if necessary, and keep them for use in their own programs, donate them to other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell them to raise money for agency programs.