Program Temporarily Closed Through 2021 Our Emergency Sanctuary program, both in Pierce and King Counties, remains paused. After taking a hiatus from programming in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed at ensuring the health and wellbeing of our community through mitigating the spread of COVID-19, we’re taking time to re-envision our Emergency Sanctuary program. Our goal during this pause is to ensure that any phased return of this program, whether during the COVID-19 pandemic or after, continues to be responsive to our evolving community need and is geared to serve those children and families who need it most. In August 2021, we made the decision to sell the house out of which our Pierce County Emergency Sanctuary operated, knowing we will be consolidating all programming in Pierce County on our Pierce County property (where our Pierce County office sits).