Ashley House

Ashley House NW provides comprehensive cost effective quality care to medically fragile children and young adults in a home-like setting.

Ashley House NW is a nonprofit agency whose purpose is to serve young adults and children with special health care needs and their families. Ashley House is dedicated to helping families build new lives together with their medically fragile children. We provide high quality, cost effective health care in home-like settings to children as an alternative to hospitalization. Ashley House was created

in 1989 to fill a gap in services to medically fragile children. Prior to the creation of Ashley House, medically fragile and complex children, for lack of proper alternatives, stayed in hospitals longer than necessary, resided in adult nursing homes or were placed out of state far away from their families. When children with severe medical diagnoses leave the hospital they often still need complex medical care. Ashley House provides transition between hospital and home for children who are technology dependent. At Ashley House a child can receive very skilled nursing care while the family adjusts and prepares for their child’s homecoming at a much lower cost than if the child stayed in the hospital. The overall goal of the Ashley House program is to help families cope with crisis by providing a warm, caring environment in which they may learn how to meet the demands of their child’s disabilities and illness. Ashley House is governed by an outstanding Board of Directors who represent several community sectors: legal, medical, financial, education. They are dedicated to supporting the mission of Ashley House and to upholding their fiduciary responsibility of being good stewards of the community resources that make Ashley House possible.

08/20/2026

We want to thank everyone who helped out by donating items from our Summer Fun Wish List. Your support's made great things happen this summer!

We've updated our list to reflect ongoing needs both for fun things for the kids and equipment and supplies we needed for the houses. If you missed out on helping our summer fun, we hope you will help out with this list! https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/5H7510GEW92A?ref_=wl_share

08/15/2026

We love seeing our families share updates with us, after they have gone home! They grow up so fast! 💕

08/06/2026

☀️ 🌊 🐚 🕶️After lots of fun in the sun, this is one of our favorite places to load a wheelchair! Show us how you’re creating accessibility this summer!

07/27/2026

On this day in 1990, President George HW Bush signed into law the Americans With Disabilities Act banning Prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in public life, including jobs, schools, and transportation. This law improved daily life for millions of Americans, including many of the children, youth and young adults we provide care for at Ashley House!

07/18/2026

Once upon a time, people with disabilities in this county were almost invisible. Let's meet one of the leaders of the Disabilities Rights Movement, Edward Roberts:

"I contracted polio when I was fourteen. I had a serious fever, and within 24 hours I was paralyzed and in an iron lung. Within earshot, my mother asked the doctor whether I would live or die. 'You should hope he dies, because if he lives he'll be no more than a vegetable for the rest of his life. How would you like to live in an iron lung 24 hours a day?'

"So I decided to be an artichoke – a little prickly on the outside but with a big heart on the inside. You know, the vegetables of the world are uniting, and we're not going away!"

Ed not only survived, he fought his way out of an iron lung . . . and into the University of California at Berkeley. He had to fight for that too but he made it, and became the FIRST person in a wheelchair to attend UCBerkeley. An advocate for independent living for people with disabilities, he eventually became Director of the Berkeley Center for Independent Living, one of the first such centers in the nation. Thanks to disability rights pioneers like Ed, disabled Americans today have the opportunity to live their best life possible!

Today, Ashley House helps medically fragile/disabled children live their best life possible. Please consider a gift today!

07/16/2026

Have you been to the beach yet this summer? It’s a great way to spend a day, but it’s always a bit more work than you anticipated. Getting everything—and everyone—loaded into the car can be challenging. Hot dogs? Check. Cooler? Check. Sunscreen? Check!

At Ashley House every kid in our care gets to live their best life possible, to experience many of the “everyday” experiences that other kids enjoy. That includes a day at the beach.

Each summer we take several van loads of kids to the beach for a fun day in the sun. Our beach trip probably includes some things yours does not: wheelchairs, oxygen tanks, medical bags for each child, as well as food, drinks, sunscreen and beach toys. To say nothing of nursing staff, and social workers.

Our beach trips are a little more work than most, and a bit more costly than most. But the kind of day that creates life long memories for the kids and the staff! You can help! Make a donation today to our Summer Fun(d) to ensure a fun summer for the kids in our care: Donate today at: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/ashleyhouse-monthlygiving

07/09/2026

July is Disability Pride Month; throughout the month we will be highlighting important, but sometimes forgotten, historic moments in the fight for disability rights.

In the 1970's, public transportation was mostly unusable by disabled people--particularly those in wheelchairs. The lifts that are so common today didn't exist on most buses. That changed, thanks to the "Gang of 19", a group of disability activists in Denver. On July 5th, 1978, they blocked buses with their wheelchairs, chanting "We Will Ride!". They had one demand: that the city install wheelchair lifts on more than 200 new buses it was preparing to purchase, so they could ride public transit.

When police arrived, they quickly realized they couldn't arrest the protesters: their cars were not wheelchair compatible, and neither were the cells.

The protest lasted 24 hours; at night, some of the activists slept in their chairs, while others slept on the hard asphalt. On July 6th, they got what they had been seeking for weeks: a meeting with the Regional Transit Authority, which eventually lead to all the new buses being equipped with wheelchair lifts.

Thanks to the Gang of 19, kids in wheelchairs can ride a bus to school or take public transit with their family: that includes the children and youth of Ashley House.

(Photo: Denver Public Library/Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection)

07/08/2026

What's been your favorite summer moment so far? We had a great time with friends from The Ability Experience in June. July? It's time to play in the water! We have three "beach" days for the kids, full of sand castles, water splashes and general fun.

And in August: time to fire up the BBQ for our annual BBQ Parties for the kids and their families. We hear that our mermaids might even show up! You can help with your gift today--help ensure that ever child lives their best life possible! https://secure.qgiv.com/for/ashleyhouse-monthlygiving

07/04/2026

Thanks so much to our staff working this 4th of July, caring for kids! And a Happy 4th to everyone.

07/02/2026

The sun may be hiding from us for a few days, but our Summer Wish List is full of sun-fun items to help the kids at Ashley House have a great summer. From sun screen to splashing fun, we need your help to make our summer fun dreams come true.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3O4J8S2W6Y6KZ?ref_=wl_share

Address

33811 9th Avenue South, Federal Way
Federal Way, WA
98003

Telephone

+12535339050

Website

https://ah-nw.org/

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