For over 50 years, Southeast Youth and Family Services has dedicated itself to serving children and youth in our neighborhood.
Who We Are
Our staff are a diverse team who speak multiple languages and reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to providing family-directed services that are culturally relevant.
We rely on your donations to provide critical services to underserved communities. Donate today to help make a difference.
Donate Now
For over 50 years, Southeast Youth and Family Services has dedicated itself to serving children and youth in our neighborhood.
Who We Are
Our staff are a diverse team who speak multiple languages and reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to providing family-directed services that are culturally relevant.
We rely on your donations to provide critical services to underserved communities. Donate today to help make a difference.
Donate Now
In therapy, youth learn new ways to cope, get support, and build resilience during anxious times COVID-19 has taken a devastating toll on communities all over the world in the last year and a half. A virus that’s killed more than 5 million people has also fueled surges in anxiety, depression, insomnia, and the like,... View Article
Like a lot of folks in the foodservice industry, Earl Brown got laid off as soon as the pandemic struck. He loved his job as a chef at the Seahawks and Sounders’ stadium. Before COVID, he’d often cater on the side, but that work dried up quick, too. “It was really rough,” he said. “I... View Article
Young Bella Jones hit one early learning milestone after another in our ParentChild+ program. She mastered her ABCs and 123s, how to sit still, take turns, and so much more. By the time she turned 4, she could confidently write her name, finish puzzles on her own — she’d even make playdough all by herself,... View Article
Like so many people in Seattle and all over the world, Faye Baker took to the streets to protest racial justice and police violence after George Floyd’s killing. “I wanted to do something, I just didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know where to start,” she recalls. She knew she wanted to support a... View Article
Halfway around the world, a war is raging in the land they once called home. They come from opposite sides of a bloody conflict in Ethiopia, but here in Seattle, BeeLyn Weldearegay and Taye Degefu are dear friends and colleagues, both therapists at Southeast Youth & Family Services.
Leaders of 30+ nonprofits, including Southeast Youth & Family Services, have formed a coalition called Brave Commitments.
This GivingTuesday, your gifts to Southeast Youth & Family Services will help us meet new and evolving needs in our community. This is what we’ve been doing all year long — this long and difficult year — thanks to one outpouring of generosity after another. Your continued support will help us meet vulnerable youth and... View Article
As a Black-led organization with deep roots in Southeast Seattle, we acknowledge that systemic racism has caused deep and lasting trauma to the youth and families we serve, especially those in Black, Indigenous and communities of color — who live in unrelenting fear of police violence. Racism is reality that people of color have lived... View Article
We are incredibly humbled by the outpouring of generosity our community gave us during our Give8/28 fundraiser. When the online day of giving for Black-led organizations officially wrapped up at 8pm on August 28, we came in 15th among 474 nonprofits nationwide. Then the donations kept coming. Our community kept showing up. Every dollar means... View Article