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Our 2020 Legislative Wins

Posted on March 18, 2020 in Legislative Advocacy

On March 12, the legislative session concluded with many victories for the movement to end youth and young adult homelessness. I’m grateful to our legislative champions who passed all our policy and budget priorities. At a time when people experiencing homelessness, including youth and young adults, are especially vulnerable to a public health crisis, we […]

Data to End Youth and Young Adult Homelessness

Posted on February 18, 2020 in Anchor Community Initiative, Behind the Scenes

Data is a critical component of the Anchor Community Initiative. Our Data & Evaluation Director, Liz, explains what data communities are collecting and how it will help communities end youth and young adult homelessness and achieve equitable outcomes. Ending youth and young adult homelessness requires accurate data that tells communities how many young people are […]

Why We Need a Centralized Diversion Fund

Posted on February 18, 2020 in Jim's Vision, Legislative Advocacy

Update: The House and Senate have both included $500,000 towards the Centralized Diversion Fund in their budgets! Please join us in thanking our elected officials for this investment. Email and tweet your legislators here: https://p2a.co/HVFll02 We know that youth and young adult homelessness has many faces. It can look like the high school student who […]

Congratulations, Pierce and Walla Walla!

Posted on February 10, 2020 in Anchor Community Initiative, Behind the Scenes

For the past ten months, our four Anchor Communities have had a singular focus: answering yes to all questions on the Youth and Young Adult By-Name List scorecard and reaching quality, real-time data. In February, two of our Anchor Communities reached exciting milestones: Walla Walla became the first Anchor Community to say yes to all […]

Our 2020 Legislative Priorities

Posted on January 10, 2020 in Legislative Advocacy

Recently, the CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Nan Roman, shared the three elements she’s observed in communities that have successfully ended homelessness: data, funding, and buy-in from political leadership. Throughout the year, we work hard to make sure communities around the state have all three of these elements. During the legislative session, […]

Meet Our Community Engagement Coordinator!

Posted on December 16, 2019 in Youth and Young Adult Engagement

For the past nine years, I’ve been working to end youth and young adult homelessness in different capacities. I’ve worked in advocacy, direct services and creating partnerships. From all these experiences, I’ve learned that to transform systems, we need to listen and bring people together. I started my work in this field at The Mockingbird […]

Our 2019 Highlights

Posted on December 11, 2019 in Uncategorized

Our Executive Director, Jim Theofelis, has dedicated his life to helping young people, as an advocate, a clinician and a leader in the movement to reform foster care and end youth and young adult homelessness. He reflects on what 2019 meant for A Way Home Washington and the movement to end youth and young adult […]

What a Data-Driven Culture Means to Us

Posted on December 11, 2019 in Equity

At A Way Home Washington, our core values include equity, youth partnership, trauma-informed practice and a data-driven culture. Our Data and Evaluation Director, Liz, writes about how data informs our work at A Way Home Washington. “You don’t count unless you’re counted.” It’s a common refrain in the data community, and for me it gets […]

What Trauma-Informed Practice Means to Us

Posted on November 19, 2019 in Equity, Youth and Young Adult Engagement

At A Way Home Washington, our core values include equity, youth partnership, a data-driven culture and trauma-informed practice. Our Coaching and Improvement Manager, Ashley, writes about how trauma informs our work at A Way Home Washington. “When you get housed, staff is constantly hounding you to get a job and make the rent. When I […]

Centering Youth Voice

Posted on November 18, 2019 in Anchor Community Initiative, Youth and Young Adult Engagement

Youth partnership is critical to ending youth and young adult homelessness, and it is one of our core values at A Way Home Washington. Sierra Phillips is one of our youth partnership consultants, and she shares how she has seen this work make an impact on youth and young adult engagement. Adultism training. Being unafraid […]

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