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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs
Mission: School's out washington provides services and guidance for organizations to ensure all young people have safe places to learn and grow when not in school. Sowa is dedicated to building community systems to support quality afterschool, youth development and summer programs for washington's children and youth ages 5 through young adulthood.
Programs: The statewide program quality initiative works to ensure that afterschool and youth development programs meet high quality standards of practice through assessment, training, coaching and capacity building.
our grantmaking program supports expanded learning opportunities throughout the state. Currently, we provide grants in the summer with our feed your brain grant; throughout the school year for supporting first year refugee youth with our refugee school impact program; and in king county through the best starts for kids out of school time program.
youth development executives of king county (ydekc) is a coalition of youth-serving organizations working together to improve outcomes for young people in our region. We are building the youth development field in king county to provide these opportunities and promote equity. We do this through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership development.
school's out washington is an intermediary organization working to ensure all youth have safe places to learn and grow when not in school. We do not directly serve youth, but instead provide afterschool and youth development providers, communities, and decision makers with the resources, tools, skills, and knowledge they need to support youth in achieving positive outcomes in school and in life.