Our Mission
Northshore Senior Center promotes healthy living and well-being in our community through programs, services, resources, and civic engagement.
We envision a community where everyone leads full, healthy and inspired lives.
Founded in 1972, Northshore Senior Center is believed to be one of the largest senior centers in the Country. We focus on providing holistic services and support to older adults, people of all ages with disabilities, and their family caregivers. Our dedicated volunteers, welcoming facilities and nearly 300 programs create a vibrant “home away from home” for people in our community, by meeting their social, emotional, recreational and health needs all in one spot.
We serve the Northshore region of north King County and south Snohomish County, including the communities of Bothell, Juanita, Kenmore, Kirkland, Mill Creek and Woodinville. We have Senior Centers in Bothell, Kenmore and Mill Creek and also provide extensive services at the Peter Kirk Community Center in Kirkland.
Who we are…
Northshore Senior Center ascribes to the following values to guide our work both as an organization and as individual staff, volunteers and community members.
We are a WELCOMING community. We treat everyone with respect, dignity, kindness and compassion. We value equity, diversity and inclusion, and work to ensure our services are accessible to all who need them.
Our services are HOLISTIC. We work to meet the social, emotional, educational, recreational, health and wellness needs of older adults, people with disabilities regardless of their age, and family caregivers, helping to promote overall healthy living and well-being.
We are COLLABORATIVE, both within the organization and with others in the community. We value working together as a team, and we operate our various programs and sites as “One Northshore”.
We aim to be IMPACTFUL on both an individual level and on a community level. When possible, we employ best practice or evidence-informed practice, and we use data to evaluate our success. We strive to remain innovative in our approach to the challenges facing our community.
Services are offered in a manner that best ensures the SAFETY of staff, volunteers, members/program participants and the community at large. While not all risk can ever be eliminated, best efforts will be made to mitigate risk with science guiding our prevention efforts.
Where We Are
Northshore Senior Center has 4 distinct locations across the Northshore and Snohomish counties.
Our Bothell location is
Features:
- Two stories full of ballrooms and classrooms, with an elevator
- Multipurpose room for activities like pickleball, aerobics, and more
- A coffee bar that also has pie and a Happy Hour on Wednesdays
- A robust food pantry that offers food for those in need twice a week
- A Community Dining program that serves hot food to members 5 days a week
- A skybridge connecting NSC Bothell to NSC H&W
Link to the current monthly program calendar HERE
Built next to the historic Rhododendron Park in Kenmore, our Kenmore location provides members with an experience unique to any other of our locations.
Features:
- Access to the outdoors, including Rhododendron Park and outdoor pickleball courts
- A connected Annex building for various programming
- A food pantry that provides food for those in need twice a month
Link to the current monthly program calendar HERE
Attached to the Vintage at Mill Creek, our Mill Creek location provides easy access to our senior center offerings to those living at Vintage.
Features:
- The center is just an elevator ride and a few steps away for people living at Vintage
- A connected annex for fitness programming
- Men’s and Women’s Coffee groups where members can make new connections over conversations and a cup of coffee
Link to the current monthly program calendar HERE
Located directly across the street from our Bothell location, our Health and Wellness building provides specialized programming that you’ll only find at H&W.
Features:
- Three floors with an elevator for easy access to everything in the building
- Special programming exclusive to H&W including:
- Adult Day Health program
- Northshore Wranglers Inclusion Program
- Tootsie’s Parlor
- Access to the skybridge connecting H&W to NSC Bothell
Learn more about the offerings at H&W in our QUARTERLY CATALOG
Our Commitment to You
Northshore Senior Center is committed to providing high quality services and supports that are accessible to all individuals in our region. Northshore Senior Center will not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, marital status, familial status, religion, race, color, creed, sex, religion, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, political ideology, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability or any other basis prohibited by law. Northshore Senior Center will comply and cooperate with all federal, state and local laws and agencies in ensuring full compliance with the laws against discrimination. Specifically, Northshore Senior Center will not:
- Deny any person facilities, services, financial aid or other benefits provided under the program or activity.
- Provide any person with facilities, services, financial aid or other benefits which are different, or are provided in a different form from that provided to others under the program or activity.
- Subject any person to segregated or separate treatment in any facility or in any matter or process related to receipt of any service or benefit under the program or activity.
- Restrict in any way access to, or the enjoyment of any advantage or privilege enjoyed by others in connection with facilities, services, financial aid or other benefits under the program or activity.
- Treat any person differently from others in determining whether the person satisfies any admission, enrollment, eligibility, membership, or other requirement or condition which individuals must meet in order to be provided any facilities, services or other benefit provided under the program or activity.
- Deny any person any opportunity to participate in a program or activity as an employee
- Utilize criteria or methods of administration, which have the effect of subjecting individuals to discrimination.
Northshore Senior Center believes that everyone in our community deserves to pursue healthy living and well-being.
We are a welcoming community. We treat everyone with respect, dignity, kindness, and compassion and expect everyone in our community to do the same. We value equity, inclusion, and diversity, which is central to our organization’s mission and purpose. We work to ensure our services are accessible to all who need them.
We believe structural, cultural, and relational inequities must be courageously recognized and dismantled. We recognize our responsibility to help create systemic change to ensure our community is inclusive, equitable, and welcoming to all. We work to continuously evaluate all aspects of our organization, confronting our own biases and driving improvements with transparency.
Further, we know that hearing from various perspectives helps generate better ideas to create more opportunities for those in our community daily. We believe listening, open dialogue, and continuous improvement are critical to our success.
Policies and Procedures You Should Know About:
Americans With Disabilities Act Policy (Spanish)
Northshore Senior Center Customer Compliant and Grievance Policy and Procedure (Spanish)
How we work…
- Northshore Neighbors is a volunteer driven ambassador program designed to foster a welcoming and connected Northshore community by engaging and advocating for members, supporting their journey from introduction to ongoing participation, promoting NSC programs and culture, and championing NSC’s presence in the broader community — while upholding the NSC Code of Conduct.
- NSC’s volunteer Board of Directors sets the organization’s vision, provides financial oversight, and assists with fundraising
- The Northshore Parks and Recreation Service Area (NPRSA) is the governmental taxing district that owns NSC’s Bothell buildings and makes capital improvements there
- NSC’s Leadership Team implements the vision set by the board and conducts the day-to-day operations