MAPS-MCRC CLINIC IS ONLINE

The MCRC Clinic will be providing telehealth services (free of charge) for those in need of healthcare services. We will be providing primary care for adults and children, outpatient neurology, endocrinology, and emotional wellness services. Please note that we do not provide lab or radiology services at this time.

Scheduling an appointment is easy: please register here and you will receive a confirmation email from us with a telehealth link embedded.

For COVID-19 related inquiries, please call your Primary Care Physician or the King County Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 call center between 8 AM to 7 PM at 206-477-3977.  For more information about Community Clinic, please visit here.  If you are facing a medical emergency, please call 911.

“Love for humanity what you love for yourself” – Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

Who We Are

The MAPS Muslim Community Resource Center is a social and humanitarian service organization of MAPS that is dedicated to helping the less fortunate in the Pacific Northwest community. We partner with other nonprofits (Muslim & non-Muslim), city and local services, assistance providers to serve those in need.

MCRC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.

History of MCRC

$750K

in assistance and 13,000 total families assisted

20

total beds in the Women’s Shelter

1,000+

families assisted & 10,000+ hot meals served through Food Programs

350+

patients served by the medical clinic

800+

families assisted through Homeless Shelter Program

Meet The Team

Nickhath (Nicky) Sheriff

Founder and CEO

Nickhath (Nicky) Sheriff oversees the functioning of MCRC and is responsible for defining the scope of its services in collaboration with a network of partners to serve the most vulnerable in our community. She is the founder of the Muslim Community Resource Center (MCRC) along with Khizer Sheriff which merged with MAPS to become MAPS-MCRC. Nickhath has a Bachelor’s Degree in History, a Master’s Degree in Political Science & Public Affairs and a Computer Programming degree from Penn State. She is a trained and certified mediator / conflict resolution specialist and is an alumnus of the Leadership Eastside Executive program.

Read more about Nickhath

Khizer Sheriff

Co-Founder and Executive Director

He co-founded MCRC along with his wife Nickhath Sheriff which has since merged with MAPS to become MAPS-MCRC. MCRC is the service arm of MAPS to serve the local community.  He is actively involved in all its activities.

Khizer Sheriff, a senior Executive with 30+ years of experience in the Technology Industry, currently is a Director at VMware. Along with his professional commitments, Khizer is passionate about community service and serving humanity.

Mustafa Haji

Senior Case Manager

Mustafa Haji is a full-time case manager for MCRC. He brings 8 years+ experience as a social worker.  He worked previously with Muslim Housing Services, a non-profit that provides housing services for the needy . His exceptional counseling skills and compassionate professionalism enables him to assist people from different socio-economic backgrounds and across a range of age groups with kindness and wisdom.

He handles all client intake including providing information and referrals at the MAPS MCRC office. 

Our Program Leads

What We Do

Food Programs

- Meals
- Perishable and non-perishable food
- Food and gas cards

Holiday Meals

- Holiday meals (Ramadan, Thanksgiving, Christmas)
- Ramadan food programs

Community Health Clinic

- Primary care for adults
- Pediatrics
- Neurology
- Endocrinology
- Cardiology
- Telehealth services
- Emotional and behavior wellness consultations
- Family counseling

Legal Clinic

- Family law
- Immigration law
- Wills & estate planning
- Business contract
- Housing disputes
- Employment law
- Domestic violence

Housing Services

- Transitional housing for single women
- Eviction prevention
- Motel vouchers

Emergency & Disaster Relief

- Relief for emergencies (pandemic, natural disasters)

Marriage & Counseling Services

- Marriage services
- Pre-marital counseling
- Family counseling

Refugee Services

- Furniture warehouse
- Emergency rental and utility assistance

Islamic Funeral Services

- Funeral and burial services

Senior Services

- Services for elders

Current Services

MCRC does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.

The MCRC Clinic will be providing telehealth services (free of charge) for those in need of healthcare services. We will be providing primary care for adults and children, outpatient neurology, endocrinology, and emotional wellness services. 

Scheduling an appointment is easy: please register here and you will receive a confirmation email from us with a telehealth link embedded.

The free medical clinic is catered to meet the needs of those who are unable to afford the cost of healthcare premiums and copays and those individuals who are still without access to affordable healthcare.

The MCRC Clinic is a mosque-based free clinic initiated in 2016 under the Washington Healthcare Access Alliance. It is completely volunteer-operated. 

While we are fully operating via telehealth for the duration of 2022, we plan to reopen in person in early 2023. If you need in-person services, please consult a list of free clinics here.

For COVID-19-related inquiries, please call your Primary Care Physician or the King County Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 call center between 8 AM to 7 PM at 206-477-3977. Staff is available on weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed on holidays). If you are facing a medical emergency, please call 911.

For more information on the MAPS-MCRC Community Clinic or contact information, please visit here.

During local emergencies we mobilize our team of volunteers to help those impacted by the calamity.

MCRC has a needs-based assessment process that determines the distribution of funds and services. It does not use an impersonal formula-based assistance qualification process.

  • Eviction Prevention: Preventing homelessness costs at least five times less than helping a family regain stable housing after it is lost. If a family has an eviction notice, MCRC can help provide a portion of the funds needed to prevent eviction.  
  • Emergency Utility Assistance: Limited funds are available based on funding provided by specific cities to assist with utility assistance to clients residing in those cities.  
  • Refugee Rental Assistance Program: Limited funds are available to provide newly arriving refugees with short-term rental assistance.
  • Emergency Motel Stay: Up to 3 nights can be provided at local motels in case of emergencies while long term housing options can be arranged. Eligibility to this program is determined on a case-by-case basis by our case manager.

All requests for assistance go through common intake and go through rigorous validation and screening by our case management team. Only upon completion of the screening and validation is a recommendation made as to the whether the assistance request is to be fulfilled and the extent to which it is fulfilled.

Our intake process provides us information on the client’s family income, # of individuals in household, specific family/situation circumstances, demographic information and other essential information needed to qualify and determine the level of assistance that is needed.

In addition, we also ask if the client requesting assistance has already received assistance from any other agency(ies). This data is used to assess the level of need, the type of assistance and the amount of assistance that MCRC can provide to the client. We empower our case manager to make decisions on the amount of assistance disbursed up to $500. Anything over that is reviewed and needs to be approved by the MCRC Executive Director.

For financial payments made for emergency utility service payment or homelessness prevention, we try to limit the number of times we assist the client. There is no pre-determined number. Our decisions are driven case by case based on the specific circumstances of the client. We feel that that having a pre-determined restriction on the number of times we assist a client or the $ value of the assistance we provide will not allow us to provide the level of assistance a client may need to get back on their feet.

Documentation Needed

MCRC only requires minimal documentation to validate and process financial assistance requests. Documentation needed to apply for financial assistance include the following:

  • Proof of Identity
  • Eviction notice
  • Lease agreement
  • Validation of income
  • Any other applicable documentation

The King County HMIS system is also used to verify sources of previous assistance that the individual/family may have already received from other agencies.

Approvals & Payments

All approved financial assistance requests are processed for payment and checks are cut each Friday. In an extremely urgent situation when eviction is imminent, checks can be cut during the week on an exception basis.

As a policy, MCRC does not make payments to individuals. All approved financial assistance payments are made directly to the rental agency or landlord.

MCRC deals with several requests for financial assistance each week and the demand is constantly increasing. While we do our best, we cannot fulfill every single request for financial assistance or fulfill the request completely.

If the client has a need that cannot be fulfilled by MCRC or can only be fulfilled partially, our case manager refers the client to other agencies who may be able to help the client. Our case managers don’t just provide the name and contact information of the agencies that we refer a client to but they also take the time to call the agency and introduce the client to them and help the client with any related paperwork.

Each of the mosques in our community have a Zakat/Sadaqqa fund set aside to help in such cases.

MCRC can facilitate connections with these organizations and help those seeking such assistance to comply with paperwork or documentation requirements of such organizations.

It is only dire circumstances – when families are facing eviction or utility shut off – when all other resources are unable to help, that MCRC as a resource of last resort – steps in to help pay the rent and utilities for families needing assistance. 

MCRC partners with community-based organizations (Muslim & non-Muslim), city & local services, assistance providers to address issues of hunger and homelessness in our community.

MCRC serves hundreds of hot meals each month at various shelters and tent city locations. Additionally we organize food drives and collect non-perishable food items to local food banks.

Volunteers making and distributing brown bag lunches for the homeless. We distribute holiday meals for homeless singles and families (including, in 2021, 1,200+ Thanksgiving meals and 850+ Christmas holiday meals).

During Ramadan each year we preparing care boxes containing food staples (rice, flour, sugar, oil, lentils, etc.) for one month for a family of five, and delivering to refugee families as well as families in low-income housing. In 2022 we provided over 2,500+ food boxes.

We also provide weekend meals for students in local school districts. We work in a coordinated manner with other organizations to seek solutions and provide care for people struggling to find a place to live or food to eat.

MAPS-MCRC provides Islamic funeral assistance. We are blessed to have an on-site ghusul facility for the ritual of washing and shrouding of the body of a deceased person before burial. This facility is available for use by Muslims in the Greater Seattle area who wish to perform the ghusul. 

We know that families often do not know where to find help when a loved one passes away. MAPS-MCRC’s volunteers coordinate a range of services that cover everything from the moment of death all the way to the burial. 

For more information, please visit here.

MCRC offers a Free Legal Clinic bi-monthly (online only). All are welcome!

At the clinic, you will have an opportunity to receive a 30-minute consultation with a legal expert.

Please note you need to have a valid e-mail address as we send confirmation of the appointment to that e-mail address. Please bring any relevant documents with you to your appointment.

As we have moved to online consultation, please make sure to select the services you would like to get help on and dates when you want to schedule it.  You need to be connected to internet and have either laptop or a Smart Mobile device or Tablet in order to join the meeting. If you are on mobile/tablet you have to download Microsoft Teams Client to join the meeting. On laptop (Windows or Mac) you can use the Microsoft Edge Chromium or Chrome browser to join the call. On joining the meeting you will be put in the lobby till such time you are allowed into the meeting.

Schedule Online

Family relations are an essential building block of society, and Islamic teachings emphasize the importance of healthy, loving, nurturing and respectful relationships – especially within the family. Unfortunately, there are times when we fall short of these teachings. For those facing family conflicts or issues (whether with spouses, children, parents, siblings, etc.), or those suffering individual religious problems (crisis of faith, overcoming additions, etc.), MAPS offers confidential family and counseling services.

For more information, please visit here.

Housing

Partnership established with refugee resettlement agencies as the go-to source for housing for incoming refugees.

• Ongoing financial support (rent, utilities, food, etc.) for several refugee families

Household Assistance

• Leased storage space actively being used by Muslim and non-Muslim organizations to store & distribute household items to refugee families in need

• Weekly collection and distribution of household items to several local families

• Periodic clothing drives

We provide services to bring elders in our community together in social settings so that they can have conversations and enjoy leisure activities together with others in their peer group.

Our elder care services are geared to alleviate the loneliness and the lack of companionship that our respected elder feel in this society.

Through conversations, coordinated group activities and social get togethers we try to bring joy into the lives of our elders and get them to connect/make friends with other elders in the community.

Transitional Housing for Single Women is one of the key service programs of MCRC.

Lack of affordable housing has exacerbated the issue of homelessness in the Greater Seattle area. The problem of homelessness is more acute among vulnerable demographics such as single women who are unable to find affordable and safe transitional housing while they get back on their feet. The Muslim Community Resource Center (MCRC) has been providing transitional housing options that are socially and culturally appropriate for single women in the Greater Seattle area for several years now.

We lease and operate 6 transitional housing units in the Greater Seattle area: 4 in Bellevue, 1 in Renton and 1 in Seattle.

The comprehensiveness of our services and the network of our partner relationships ensures that our clients in our transitional housing programs do not simply get a place to stay but also get access to adjacent services such as counseling, legal services, medical and dental clinics, food pantry, vocational training and mentoring to get them to be self-sufficient as quickly as possible.

Recognition and Awards

Even in its short existence, the work of MAPS-MCRC has received recognition for its frontline services work and leadership. Here are a few.

Alliance of Eastside Agencies

Alliance of Eastside Agencies selected MAPS-MCRC for 2019 Faith Organization of the Year

Seattle Foundation

Seattle Foundation selected MAPS-MCRC for COVID-19 Phase-1 and Phase-2 grantee to accelerate the support of needy people in this time of COVID-19

Seattle Foundation

Seattle Foundation selected MAPS-MCRC for Supplemental Food Security Fund to continue to provide Meals services to the needy

City of Redmond

City of Redmond awarded MAPS-MCRC to provide rental assistance as part of the City’s COVID-19 response

City of Kirkland

City of Kirkland awarded MAPS-MCRC to aid city residents in need during COVID-19

City of Bellevue

City of Bellevue awarded MAPS-MCRC CARES Grant to help those affected by COVID-19

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints provided in-kind grant to MAPS-MCRC during 2020 Ramadan for distribution to the needy

King County

King County awards MAPS-MCRC the King County COVID-19 COMMUNITY RESPONSE FUND

 

Our Partners

MCRC believes in the power of collaborative partnerships and leveraging strengths and capabilities of our partner ecosystem in serving those in our communities that need help to get back on their feet. To that extent, MCRC has built a network of partners that it works with on an ongoing basis. This list continues to expand each day.

Below is the list of partners that we currently work with.

Partner Services

MCRC Calendar

Week of Events

Photo Galleries

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Support our work! Funds donated to MAPS-MCRC will go directly to support our social and humanitarian work, and will not be used for religious programming.

Contact Info

Call Us

888-404-6272
425-947-7146

VISIT US

16307 NE 83rd St., Suite 102, Redmond, WA 98052

Monday - Friday
10:00am - 5:00pm

Please call ahead and make an appointment to meet with the case manager.