Support Nonprofits. Help Youth. Save Lives.
Wondering how you can help youth, prevent homelessness, and encourage the next generation? You can start by donating to and working for the following nonprofits.
Remember, a significant number of people experiencing homelessness have been through the foster care system, and a significant number are members of the LGBTQ+ community. Helping these youth is critical to impacting positive social change.
Remember, a significant number of people experiencing homelessness have been through the foster care system, and a significant number are members of the LGBTQ+ community. Helping these youth is critical to impacting positive social change.
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Seattle AngelsWe wrap community around children in the foster care system, as well as their caretakers, through our Love Box program. Click here.
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Friends of YouthFriends of Youth is a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting youth and their families in King and Snohomish counties. Friends of Youth positively impacts over 6,500 children, youth and their families each year, at 26 sites and programs in 18 cities across the Puget Sound region. In addition to operating the only overnight youth shelters on the Eastside, FOY offers youth development initiatives, in-home family support for young parents and guardians of children up to five years old, parent education, WISe Wraparound services, youth and family counseling, substance abuse counseling, therapeutic foster care, residential treatment and transitional housing for homeless young people and teen mothers. Click here.
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Treehouse for KidsTreehouse provides our community's youth in foster care with the academic and essential support they equally deserve to help them graduate high school with a plan for their future. Click here.
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Lambert HouseLambert House empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth through the development of leadership, social, and life skills. Click here.
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PFLAG (Bellevue & Eastside)This is the local chapter of PFLAG National, our nation’s oldest LGBTQ advocacy organization and a powerful grassroots network of volunteers. PFLAG Eastside serves residents of East King County communities, including Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah, Mercer Island, Sammamish, Bothell, Woodinville, Duvall, Snoqualmie, and Carnation. PFLAG unites people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) with families, friends, and allies and is committed to advancing equality through our three tenants.
1. Support for LGBTQ people and their family and friends. 2. Education for ourselves and others about the unique issues and challenges facing people who are LGBTQ. 3. Advocacy to change attitudes and create policies and laws that achieve full equality for people who are LGBTQ. Click here. |
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Seattle Counseling ServicesFounded in 1969, Seattle Counseling Service is proud to be the oldest LGBTQ-focused community mental health agency in the world. Seattle Counseling Service is a community-based organization that has been dedicated to promoting health and wellness within the LGBT community for 47 years. SCS began as a solely volunteer-supported effort in the summer of 1969 to fill an unmet need for community members to connect with one another in a safe and supportive environment. Over the years, SCS has become a nationally recognized leader in cutting edge approaches to therapy, education, intervention and recovery. Click here.
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HopelinkHopelink is the largest social services agency in east and north King County, serving 64,000 people every year. For more than four decades, Hopelink has helped homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities make lasting change in their lives. Through a number of different programs, Hopelink provides food, shelter, energy assistance, family development, transportation and adult education classes. Click here.
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