Welcome Community
Members!
Funding was made
available to organizations that serve high-need populations through
a competitive process. Five community-based organizations have
received grants to provide culturally relevant, family involvement
services to grant recipient schools. School representatives, the
City of Seattle, and the Office of Family and Community
Partnerships worked together to create this grant process.
Organizations are:
Neighborhood House Description
For 100 years,
Neighborhood House (NH) has been providing a broad range of
education and social services to Seattle and King County’s
low income, immigrant and refugee communities. Our mission is to
help diverse communities of people with limited resources attain
their goals for self-sufficiency, financial independence and
community building.
We have a diverse and
culturally competent staff of 120. With education and community
connections as priorities, we provide early childhood education,
youth tutoring, ESL/Citizenship, first language case management,
employment and job training and community health education
programs. We partner with families to provide first language home
visits, consultation, and workshops to help parents decode the
school system. We also work one-on-one with families to connect
with bilingual support in the school or facilitate access to other
academic or social resources.
For
more information please view their website at: www.nhwa.org/index.html
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Catholic Community Services’ Youth Tutoring
Program Description
The Youth Tutoring
Program’s mission is to tutor, guide and inspire at-risk
youth living in public housing to achieve academic success. We
create a challenging, safe, and enriching environment where youth
are matched with adults who offer academic support and mentoring
throughout their school years. We partner with parents and advocate
for students in their schools and in their communities.
YTP serves over 500
youth each year in six tutoring centers located in the low-income
public housing communities of Cedarvale Village, High Point,
Jackson Park Village, Rainier Vista, Yesler Terrace and the
mixed-income community of New Holly. For 15 years, YTP has provided
a culturally relevant program that has been highly successful in
producing positive results in students’ school performance.
An integral component of our program is our focus on connecting
family and school; our highly qualified staff is experienced at
reaching out to families as well as facilitating relationships
between families and their children’s schools in order to
improve academic achievement. Home visits by YTP staff,
multi-language parent feedback forms (Oromo, Amharic, Tigrinia,
Somali, Vietnamese, Cambodian), liaison with other community
organization’s multi-lingual staff, regular contact with
school counselors and teachers, and presence at community events
are just a few of the ways that YTP reaches out to families in
order to connect them with their children’s
schools.
For
more information please view their website at: www.ytpseattle.org/
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Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA)
Description
Refugee Women’s
Alliance is a nonprofit, multiethnic organization that promotes
inclusion, independence, personal leadership and strong communities
by providing refugee and immigrant women and families with
culturally and linguistically appropriate services. ReWA advocates
for social justice, public policy changes and equal access to
services while respecting cultural values and the right to
self-determination.
ReWa fundamentally
believes that all individuals have valuable strengths and assets to
share, and thus all our programs and services are built not only on
mutual respect, but also mutual learning. ReWA has been a
“cultural broker” between mainstream society and
refugee and immigrant communities in the City of Seattle, and King
and Snohomish counties, for twenty-one years. As a multicultural
agency, ReWA uniquely has the language and cultural capacity to
serve children and families from all over the world, and to provide
a bridge of understanding between them and their new community. Our
74 staff members speak 25 languages and dialects and come from the
very communities we serve. Daily, they work side by side with
families helping them to establish their lives in their new
adoptive country.
For more information
please view their website at: www.rewa.org/
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Urban Impact
Description
In September 2005,
Emerald City Outreach Ministries (ECOM) merged with Northwest Urban
Ministries to form Urban Impact. The mission of Urban Impact is to
strengthen families and raise servant leaders by building a
foundation of good health, quality education, economic opportunity
and a Christ-centered faith.
Urban Impact currently
has 3 main program sites:
Southwest Youth and Family Services
Description
Southwest Youth and
Family Services (SWYFS) has been in operation for 25 years and
helps people use their own strengths to make what they want of
their lives. Its mission is to empower youth and families through
culturally relevant counseling, education and family support
services in White Center, South Park, Delridge and West
Seattle.
SWYFS is a state
licensed mental health agency and the professional counselors work
as a team to provide high quality, strength-based services to the
community. They provide a comprehensive range of counseling
services for children, youth and their families. All services are
uniquely tailored to meet the needs of the individual and family,
including availability of services in both English and
Spanish.
The
Southwest Education Center (SWEC) aims to provide a positive
educational experience to youth who have dropped out of school,
have been expelled or have fallen behind in traditional
school.
The
Family Center helps people create solid family environments where
happy and successful children can grow. The Center provides
innovative family and parenting programs led by people from the
communities they serve. Programs are designed to respect each
culture. Languages include English, Spanish, Cambodian, Arabic, and
more. Community advocates help people navigate complex educational,
legal, social, and healthcare services.
For
more information please view their website at: www.swyfs.org/
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