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Last updated on October 2, 2008

Community for Youth inspires and supports youth to identify and achieve their goals through mentoring, learning experiences, and participation in a powerful community.

Description:
Community for Youth programs transform high school students who are struggling - with school, with family, with their direction in life - into young adults with confidence, determination, and self-awareness. Supported by a community of adult mentors who are relentlessly committed to their success, teenagers learn to make thoughtful choices, fulfill their commitments, acknowledge their mistakes and account for their actions. By taking control of their lives, students realize they can achieve more than they ever thought possible.

Steps Ahead (program for 9th graders) and Steps Beyond (program for 10th-12th graders) operate at Cleveland High School, Rainier Beach High School, and Chief Sealth High School, and are the largest mentoring and youth development programs in the Seattle high school system. Our program runs parallel with the school year, beginning in the fall and ending in June.

History:
Community for Youth was founded in 1986. The program was expanded with the 1989 launch of the Steps Ahead mentor program at Seattle's Rainier Beach High School. The program expanded to Cleveland High in 1994 and Sealth in 2000 and now serves 170 youth each year.

Contact people:

Margy Bresslour, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Kim Berardi, Outreach Manager, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (206) 957-2255

Address:

999 Third Avenue, Suite 1570 Seattle, WA 98104 (See a map)

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

Directions:

Our office is the Wells Fargo Building in downtown Seattle. The Wells Fargo Building is between Second and Third and between Madison and Marion. We also work out of our three High Schools, Cleveland on Beacon Hill; Rainier Beach in South Seattle; and Sealth in West Seattle.

Miscellaneous Information

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

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