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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted on November 4, 2019 in Jim's Vision, Youth and Young Adult Engagement
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. Previously, Jim shared why the time is right for solutions in Washington and why solutions must lead to systemic and […]
Posted on October 14, 2019 in Anchor Community Initiative, Behind the Scenes
Working with schools is critical to ending youth and young adult homelessness. Megan Johnson joins the Anchor Community Initiative as the Student Stability Manager to create and implement a schools strategy. Megan tells us why this issue is so important to her, and why we need to work with schools to achieve our mission. Throughout […]
Posted on October 14, 2019 in Equity
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 what youth partnership means at A Way Home Washington. In the youth homelessness world, we know that we need the expertise of young people with lived experience to improve […]
Posted on October 7, 2019 in Equity
As an organization, we value equity and engaging communities in culturally sensitive ways. Our Communications Director, Sully, reflects on the importance of the words we use in our efforts to be an equitable and inclusive organization. As a communications professional and an advocate for racial equity, I know that words have power. I carefully consider […]
Posted on September 19, 2019 in Anchor Community Initiative, Behind the Scenes
When we’re working towards a big goal – like, let’s say, ending youth and young adult homelessness – choosing where to start can be the most challenging step. We ask ourselves, will this first step lead to the change we want to see? Our team learned how to answer this tricky question when Community Solutions […]
