Auburn Youths Resource's mission is to assist families and youth by providing counseling, prevention, and support services with the goal of helping them to become healthy, loving, and self-directed individuals.

Description:
Auburn Youth Resources (AYR) is a private, non-profit child and family agency serving South King County for the past 37 years.

AYR operates four major community-based programs providing counseling, residential treatment, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and street outreach. We provide our services in nine locations in Enumclaw, Auburn, and Federal Way.

Our counseling programs in Auburn and Enumclaw provide individual, group, and family counseling services. In addition, we provide Family Reconciliation Services and Family Preservation Services. These programs are designed to support families and prevent out-of-home placements for adolescents. Our anger management groups target the development of new skills to deal more effectively with anger. All of these programs are augmented by comprehensive case management services.

Auburn Youth Resources operates two residential programs. The South King County Youth Shelter (SKYS) is an eight-bed interim care facility serving children 10-17 years old. The goal of placement is to stabilize the youth in crisis and facilitate the return of the youth to his/her family home. Severson House is a seven-bed transitional living program serving boys ages 15-17. The goal of placement is to teach young men independent living skills that they need to successfully launch into adulthood.

Auburn Youth Resources is a state certified drug treatment facility and offers services that range from prevention to treatment for substance abuse, prevention of violence, and teen pregnancy counseling. These services are offered for individuals, families, schools, and other community organizations.

Our street outreach program is designed to target homeless and runaway youth along the Highway 99 corridor from SeaTac to Federal Way. The goal of the program is to identify the individuals and provide assistance and referrals in an attempt to get them off the streets and into safe and stable housing. Last year the program made contact with over 1900 homeless youth.

Auburn Youth Resources, a United Way member agency, is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and is supported through funding from City, County, State, and Federal funding, third-party reimbursements, service fees, corporations, foundation grants, and private donations.

Services are provided regardless of national origin, religion, gender, sexual preference, Aids diagnosis, HIV status, or disability.

History:
II. History of Agency
A. Past
Auburn Youth Resources (AYR) began in 1973 with three part-time staff and a small volunteer Board of Directors. The total agency budget was about $16, 000 and we served a variety of "troubled youth". Seven years later, we opened a satellite agency in Enumclaw and ten years later, we became a licensed drug treatment agency. In 1986, we opened the first runaway shelter in South King County and in 1989 we opened the Severson House, a transitional living program for young men. In 1997, we became licensed mental health agency able to accept medical coupons for treatment.
B. Present
AYR employs approximately 85 people, has a Board of Directors that numbers 21. We annually work with over 5,700 children, youth and families through a number of programs. You'll find us in the Auburn and Enumclaw schools, on the streets with homeless youth from Southcenter to Federal Way, providing services in nine locations including two group homes.
C. Future
AYR is a part of the fabric of our community. For 37 years, we have met the needs of youth and their families in our community and will continue to do so as the needs arise. The South King County area will continue to see growth and AYR will find ways, as we always have, to expand our services to meet the needs of a dynamic region.

Contact person: Trudy Ginther, Administrative Assistant, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (253) 939-0667

Address:

816 F Street SE Auburn, WA 98391 This location is handicap accessible (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.ayr4kids.org/

Directions:

Directions to AYR South Campus 936 Auburn Way S Auburn WA 98002 From I-5 North or South and Highway 167: take the Highway 18 east exit. Head East until the Auburn Enumclaw exit. Take the Auburn/Enumclaw exit (off to your right).. . . (more)

Miscellaneous Information

Liability
	Yes
Does your organization welcome court-ordered community service volunteers?
	No
Does your organization have volunteer positions for youth 12-18?
	No