Recent News:

YMCA launches new brand to roll out over the next year.  See NY Times article "YMCA is Downsizing to a Single Letter" and St. Petersburg Times article "YMCA Launches New Brand to Draw Attention To What It Can Do for Communities." (July)

YMCA Independent Living Conference for young adults is June 27 at The 2100 Building. (Jun)

The Friends of the College Success Program's Off-Broadway play 'A Gulag Mouse' is June 4-6 at Seattle Central Community College.  Proceeds benefit former foster youth (Jun)

YMCA to partner with Children's Hospital and University of Washington on a five-year research study to evaluate and improve sexual health risk behaviors in foster youth. (May)

New grants through Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) expand YMCA's emergency rental assistance program.  The grants amount to more than $10K. (May)

YMCA Young Adult Services WAGES program featured in RE Store blog.  RE Store provides internships and employment readiness to Y youth transitioning out of unstable living situations. (May)

YMCA receives a $100K award in partnership with YouthCare and UDYC to provide employment services to homeless youth and former foster youth through a City of Seattle grant. (Feb)

Teens receive mental health counseling and other services through new partnership between the City of Kirkland and the Bellevue Family YMCA. (May) 

YMCA receives $141,685 from King County to provide permanent housing subsidies to formerly homeless young adults exiting YMCA transitional housing. (May)

YMCA staff Paula Carvalho-Johnson and Shawli Hathaway were 2010 Award Honorees at the Passport to College Conference in Seattle.  Both were nominated "for their continued effort to provide exemplary support toward the retention and graduation of alumni of care students." (May)

The YMCA was featured in the West Seattle Herald articles "Former Foster Child Educated in Several West Seattle Schools" and "Foster Care Youth & Grads Served by YMCA in WS." (Apr)

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