Teen Advocate Groups

• Advocates for Youth
  Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates believes it can best serve the field by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health.
  
  
• Atlantic Street Center
  Atlantic Street Center is a private, non-profit organization that provides mental health counseling, youth development activities, early literacy programs, and parent and family support services to approximately 3,000 multi-ethnic, low-income families in Seattle’s central and southeast neighborhoods.
  
  
• Community for Youth
  This program inspires and supports high school students to achieve their goals through mentoring, learning experiences and community participation.
  
  
• Global Youth Action Network
  GYAN is a youth-led organization that unites the efforts of young people working to improve our world. The Network connects many thousands of organizations in over 190 countries and a growing membership is now helping to shape the future direction of GYAN.
  
  
• National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth
  NCFY is an organization where communities and families can obtain information on issues of youth and families.
  
  
• National Youth Rights Association
  NYRA is a youth-led national non-profit organization dedicated to fighting for the civil rights and liberties of young people.
  
  
• Safe Futures Youth Center
  SFYC was founded in June 1996 as a City of Seattle Human Services Department-operated program targeting at-risk Southeast Asian youth and families.
  
  
• Seattle Young People's Project
  The Seattle Young People's Project is a youth-led, adult supported organization that empowers youth (ages 13-18) to express themselves and to take action on the issues that affect their lives.
  
  
• The Service Board
  The Service Board provides Seattle area high school-age youth with life-changing experiences that build self-knowledge, skills, courage, and determination.
  
  
• Southwest Youth and Family Services
  Southwest Youth & Family Services helps people use their own strengths to make what they want of their lives. They offer counseling, education, and family support programs for people in West Seattle, White Center, and South Park.
  
  
• Student Press Law Center
  The Student Press Law Center is an advocate for student free press rights and provides information, advice and legal assistance at no charge to students and the educators who work with them.
  
  
• University District Service Providers Alliance
  The University District Service Providers Alliance is a coalition of nonprofit organizations in Seattle's University District working together to create a comprehensive continuum of care for homeless and street-involved youth and young adults.
  
  
• YWCA
  The YWCA serves some 50,000 women and families in King and Snohomish counties each year with services to end homelessness, create self-sufficiency, care for youth and provide safe havens.
  
  
• Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
  The Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, in the historic Youngstown/Frank B. Cooper School, is a service of the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, and aims to build community through arts education, performance and collaboration.
  
  
• Youth Advocates
  Dedicated to serving the youth and families in our community in crises through a variety of services, both traditional and non-traditional.
  
  
• YouthCare
  Every youth should have a warm place to stay, healthy food, caring adults, and opportunities to grow and succeed. YouthCare delivers services that meet the needs of Seattle’s homeless and at-risk youth.