Community Programs and Classes

The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program partners with Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic (OBCC) and Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center to provide nutrition services to the community.

The WIC program offers services to eligible women and children to help them eat well, learn about nutrition and stay healthy.

Services differ based on the needs of each participant. They may include access to food, breast/chest pumps, breastfeeding/chestfeeding support, education about nutrition and more. 

Wondering if you are eligible for WIC? You may qualify if you make a certain income and:

• Are pregnant
• Had a baby or were pregnant less than 6 months ago
• Are currently breastfeeding/chestfeeding
• Have children under 5 years old
• Already qualify for state health insurance or other state services (and meet at least one of the criteria listed above)

For more information, call OBCC’s WIC office at 206-987-7235. If you use a language other than English, call the toll-free Family Interpreting Line at 866-583-1527, choose your language and tell the interpreter the name or extension you need.

Our community kitchen at OBCC Othello hosts cooking classes that encourage families to get in the kitchen and cook together. You will learn kitchen safety, recipes, how to shop and more. During Family Flavor cooking classes, caregivers can take a turn as a “guest chef” and share their favorite regional and cultural recipes.

The kitchen is also a space where families and community members can do meal prep, prepare for festivals and community celebrations and learn about each other’s food traditions and culture.

OBCC Othello includes a half basketball court and classroom space for events and fitness activities like yoga, soccer, acrobatics and circus arts. Click here for more information on how to rent out the space for your event.

Parent-child interactive therapy (PCIT) is for children ages 3 to 7 and their caregivers. PCIT works to improve parent-child relationships and to change patterns of how parents interact with their child. Disruptive behavior is the most common reason that young children are referred for behavioral health services. This can include issues such as talking back or aggression. PCIT combines behavioral therapy, play therapy and parent training to teach more effective ways to improve children’s behavior.

• For information, call 206-987-7210.

The Incredible Years program is an evidence-based treatment that has been shown to help change challenging behavior in children aged 4 to 11. We offer groups for children, their parents and their teachers. We teach effective strategies to help improve behavior and increase a child’s social, emotional, learning and self-control skills.

• Call 206-987-7210 to learn more.

Attachment Vitamins is for parents of children from birth to age 5. The support group can help parents:

• Identify your child’s strengths and needs
• Build parent–child relationships
• Respond to challenging behavior
• Learn about the effects of stress and trauma on early childhood development
• Adjust your parenting style to your child

Call 206-987-7210 for information.

The Northwest Sickle Cell Collaborative makes life better for children and families with sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait. It is a joint project of Odessa Brown and several other healthcare organizations.

Children should be seen by a dentist as soon as they have teeth, but many children in our state go without dental care. It’s more than twice as likely for 2-year-olds in Washington state to have dental decay than it is for children elsewhere in the nation (source: Washington Dental Service [WDS] Foundation).

The SmileMobile is a 38-foot-long dental clinic on wheels that travels across Washington providing dental care to children from families with low incomes. The mobile clinic provides exams, preventive care, fillings and minor oral surgery on a sliding-fee a basis. Many children see a dentist for the first time when the SmileMobile rolls into their community — and sometimes they are 18 years old.

Seattle Children’s is a partner in the SmileMobile with Arcora, the parent company of Delta Dental of Washington, and local organizations.

The Washington Medical-Legal Partnership provides free legal help to eligible families. If you have a problem that needs legal help, talk to any member of your healthcare team, and they can refer you.