Southwest Youth And Family Services

Programs: Counseling center: the counseling center is a licensed mental health facility, offers individual, group and family counseling for children, youth, and their parents and caregivers. In addition to therapeutic counseling, the counseling center provides case management services to middle and high school students at risk of academic failure or becoming involved in violence and the juvenile justice system; swyfs is one of the only organizations to offer this service in burien and seatac. Services are provided at the delridge office, at new futures sites, in schools, in homes and in the community. The counseling center served 467 individuals in 2014.

family center: the family center serves families with children from birth through early adulthood, most of whom are immigrant or refugee, as well as families of color, and families with members with developmental disabilities of any age. Services provided include information and referral; advocacy and support; parent education; play and learn activities; community resource and family engagement events; and the parent child home program, an early literacy home visiting program serving very low income families with two and three year old children. This program served 1535 people in 2014.

new futures: new futures is located in three low income apartment communities in burien and seatac, and serves very low income children youth and family residents with after school academic support and tutoring; summer programs including academic support, enrichment and recreation; youth development; early childhood education activities; and family support and advocacy to residents. Nearly 100% of those served are immigrant or refugee families of color, primarily hispanic; most adults speak english as a second (or third) language, if at all. To better serve families, more than 50% of program staff are bilingual. New futures served 1226 people in 2014.

education center: the education center serves youth who are significantly behind in the credits needed to graduate and are either on the verge of dropping out or have dropped out, including teen parents, for whom special support is provided. All students have access to counseling, and case management to help them stay in school and out of trouble. The education center served 149 students in 2014. Fiscal sponsor projects include equity in education coalition, king county alliance for human services, and north delridge neighborhood council.