Five years ago, King County and the City of Seattle declared a state of emergency on homelessness. Nevertheless, despite modest declines in subpopulations like families and youth, homelessness rates continued… Read More of “YouthCare Endorses JumpStart Seattle Payroll Tax”
This past Friday, King County released their 2019 Point-In-Time Count, including the number of youth and young adults experiencing homelessness. For the first time in recent years, the number of… Read More of “YouthCare Responds to 2019 Count Us In Results”
Last week, King County released their 2018 Point-in-Time Count, including the number of homeless youth and young adults. Here’s the good news: the rates of youth and young adult homelessness… Read More of “YouthCare Responds to 2018 Count Us In Results”
YouthCare’s leadership unanimously voted to support the De-Escalate Washington ballot initiative—and we urge you to support Initiative 940 too. I-940 is a grassroots effort led by people of color and families… Read More of “YouthCare Endorses De-Escalate Washington”
Over 40 years ago, Congress passed the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act—the first and only federal law targeted at serving unaccompanied youth. For nearly as long, homeless youth providers and… Read More of “4.2 million Homeless Young People is Unacceptable: We Must Do More”
This morning, All Home King County released the results of their point-in-time count of homeless people in our community. The count was performed on January 27, 2017. For this year’s… Read More of “YouthCare Responds to All Home 2017 Data on Homelessness in King County”
YouthCare is honored to be named Nonprofit of the Year by the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA). The GSBA Business & Humanitarian Awards honor businesses and business leaders who are… Read More of “GSBA Honors YouthCare with Nonprofit of the Year Award”
YouthCare’s Civic Justice Corps crew recently formed a new partnership with Community Arts Create, a local organization working to renovate their building on the corner of Rainier Avenue South and… Read More of “YouthCare’s Civic Justice Corps Rehabilitates the Community”
