Community spotlight: Snohomish County
the issue
Like many communities across the state, Snohomish County has seen a spike in homelessness and
people
struggling with behavioral health disorders in recent years. They had invested in embedded social workers to
partner with law enforcement to engage people into services. But too often, there was nowhere for people to go to
get the support they needed. People who wanted treatment were not able to get into a program right away or ended
up involved in the criminal justice system rather than treatment, and too many were unable to secure housing.
our response
Working in close partnership with Snohomish County, the Snohomish County Sherriff’s Office and
community
partners, we designed two new programs to specifically address the community’s most urgent needs.
The Snohomish County Diversion Center
is a 44-bed facility that provides residents a thorough needs
assessment, assertive engagement into available services, medication assisted treatment options, and
individualized support and recovery plan development.
The Carnegie Resource Center
serves as a gateway to a multitude of resources including mental health
counseling, substance use disorder treatment, employment services, housing enrollment, veteran programs,
health insurance navigation and public benefit enrollment.
how it's working
In their first full year of operation, these new programs are delivering!
at the carnegie
233
got deposit assistance to secure housing
165
received benefits to access primary care
Community spotlight: Spokane
the issue
Our partners at the City of Spokane and Spokane County, and other community stakeholders have
been
working together for several years to decrease the jail population, reduce unnecessary ER visits, and provide
safe, stable housing options in the downtown core.
our response
To address these pressing community concerns, we converted the Carlyle from assisted living to
serviceenriched
housing for justice-involved individuals. Thanks to the support of the local legislative delegation,
we secured capital funding to upgrade the facility to meet current housing codes in 2019. And with amazing
ongoing support from community funders, we are able to provide on-site services and activities that are
specifically designed to meet our residents’ needs and build a strong community within the facility.
This transition allows Carlyle residents to secure affordable housing and get the support they
need to build
healthy, productive lives in the community.
how it's working
Housing stability increased
Treatment success increased
Emergency service use decreased
Recidivism risk decreased
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The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb is an expansion that transformed Edmund McMillen’s roguelike top-down shooter from a compact indie experiment into a dense, chaotic, and deeply replayable experience. Building on the original game’s darkly comic premise — a boy named Isaac fleeing his mother’s fanatical belief that God demanded a sacrifice — the expansion multiplies content, mechanics, and possibilities, turning each run into a tangled web of decisions, power synergies, and emergent stories. and room layouts
Content Expansion and Variety Where the base game offered a modest set of items, enemies, and rooms, Wrath of the Lamb explodes that set into a vast catalogue. New item effects range from simple stat boosts to complex, room-shaping mechanics. For example, an item that spawns orbiting projectiles changes your defensive posture, while another that converts hearts into temporary familiars forces players to weigh short-term firepower against long-term survivability. The expansion also adds new boss forms, secret rooms, curse rooms, and room layouts, meaning players encounter far more variety across runs.
Tone and Theme Wrath of the Lamb preserves and intensifies the original’s unsettling mixture of religious imagery, body-horror aesthetics, and earnest, grotesque humor. The art style keeps McMillen’s childlike, sketchy character designs, which makes the grotesque transformations and monstrous enemies feel oddly playful rather than purely terrifying. The expansion’s items and enemies often riff on biblical or mythic language (angels, demons, sacrificial motifs) while reframing them through a suburban, child-centric lens — creating a tone that’s equal parts irreverent and melancholic.
Replayability and Community One of Wrath of the Lamb’s greatest strengths is replayability. Randomized rooms, item pools, and boss variants make each run feel fresh. The expansion also laid the groundwork for a vibrant community of players sharing seed combinations, item synergy discoveries, and challenge runs. Community-driven content — discovering “broken” builds or naming favorite item combos — became central to the game’s appeal. For many players, the fun is not just beating the game but uncovering oddball builds (for example, creating a character whose tears become bombs that produce orbiting black holes) and seeing how far those choices carry them.
Conclusion Wrath of the Lamb elevates The Binding of Isaac from a promising indie title to a dense, idiosyncratic roguelike full of surprises, moral oddness, and mechanical depth. By multiplying items, enemies, and rooms, it rewards experimentation and fosters a community eager to decode its countless interactions. The result is a game that is equal parts punishing and playful — a darkly comic sandbox where every run tells a different, often bizarre story.
The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb is an expansion that transformed Edmund McMillen’s roguelike top-down shooter from a compact indie experiment into a dense, chaotic, and deeply replayable experience. Building on the original game’s darkly comic premise — a boy named Isaac fleeing his mother’s fanatical belief that God demanded a sacrifice — the expansion multiplies content, mechanics, and possibilities, turning each run into a tangled web of decisions, power synergies, and emergent stories.
Content Expansion and Variety Where the base game offered a modest set of items, enemies, and rooms, Wrath of the Lamb explodes that set into a vast catalogue. New item effects range from simple stat boosts to complex, room-shaping mechanics. For example, an item that spawns orbiting projectiles changes your defensive posture, while another that converts hearts into temporary familiars forces players to weigh short-term firepower against long-term survivability. The expansion also adds new boss forms, secret rooms, curse rooms, and room layouts, meaning players encounter far more variety across runs.
