Snohomish County Youth Rap

On the fourth Tuesday of every month Snohomish county professionals working with the Youth in your community get together to network and share resources. This is an opportunity for an agency to bring awareness of their mission as well as to collaborate with neighboring agencies sharing similar work. Sandra Neumann, Teen Parent Advocate attends this meeting on behalf of Deaconess Children’s Services.

Some exciting resources presented during the September meeting were:
•Parenting classes focusing on parenting teenagers are available at Cocoon House, also available in Spanish.
•Y3 engagement gives High School drop outs ages 16-21 an opportunity to return to school obtaining an Associates Technical Arts degree with transfer credits to High School completion. This program provides free tuition, books and other fees.
•Youth Suicide Prevention brings awareness of this important issue, is available to provide crisis response and offers training to agencies and schools.
•United way 211 website database allows people and agencies to access 211 any time and allows searches to be grouped by population and needs.
•Youth United is engaging youth in volunteer opportunity mimicking the United Way Day of Caring. You can register on line and find them through facebook.
•The Youth Action Team, also part of United Way, is working with High School recruiting Captains and their peers to engage in community events
•Links and Alliances is holding their 13th annual conference for Youth, Parents, Educators, and community providers.
•WSU extension 4-H is holding an all day event on Saturday November 14th in Everett for kids ages 5-19 with workshops ranging from building robotics, mask making, trains, finances, bugs and so much more.
•Volunteers of America offers a life skills education program which provides classes on parenting, finances, cooking and cleaning.