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Offers year-round enriching experiences to meet the unique needs and interests of girls. In partnership with committed adults, girls develop qualities such as strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth. Programs include career exploration, creative arts, science and technology, travel, environmental education and leadership development.

Offers year-round enriching experiences to meet the unique needs and interests of girls. In partnership with committed adults, girls develop qualities such as strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth. Programs include career exploration, creative arts, science and technology, travel, environmental education and leadership development.

Offers year-round enriching experiences to meet the unique needs and interests of girls. In partnership with committed adults, girls develop qualities such as strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth. Programs include career exploration, creative arts, science and technology, travel, environmental education and leadership development.

Offers year-round programs for girls and boys including positive peer groups, leadership opportunities and skill and self-esteem building. Programs are offered at numerous sites throughout Seattle and King, Kitsap and North Mason counties.

Offers year-round enriching experiences to meet the unique needs and interests of girls. In partnership with committed adults, girls develop qualities such as strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth. Programs include career exploration, creative arts, science and technology, travel, environmental education and leadership development.

Description: Provides virtual group mentoring and one-on-one mentoring programs for at-risk youth in King County. Recruits and trains mentors, pairs them with at-vulnerable risk youths and supports the youth/mentor relationship to increase its power and duration. Group Mentoring: Blends history, social studies, civic education, economic and service-learning standards into an experiential learning framework to inspire critical thinking, life skills development and youth activism, encouraging youth to choose the road away from incarceration and toward higher education. Youth attend a virtual weekly group session, youth can attend from King County neighborhoods. Youth who attend must be in high school . One-on-one Mentoring: Youth are matched one-on-one with a mentor who helps them realize alternatives to destructive behaviors. Mentors assist and encourage the mentee to fulfill the goals they have for: education, vocation and a drug- or alcohol-free lifestyle. Also facilitates mentorship opportunities in which caring adults offer guidance, support and encouragement to at-risk youth. Tutoring: Provided for youth who need assistance with schoolwork, homework and support in math, science, reading etc. Parents must make commitment that their youth will attend Tutoring sessions.

Helps prepare low-income and/or first-generation Seattle high school youth for post-secondary education through academic instruction and tutoring, academic and personal counseling, life skills and leadership development, career exploration and planning, college application assistance, financial aid workshops and college tours. Also requires a six-week summer academic program at Seattle University with high school credit available.

Summer camps include field trips, cooking, STEAM, sports, swimming, computers, reading, music, games, arts and crafts and more. Youth are grouped by age. Leaders in Training (LIT) program teaches teens the skills needed to become a camp counselor.

Provides youth a voice in their community through leadership and service. Programs include Bellevue Youth Link Board, Bellevue Youth Council and Action Teams. - Youth Link Board is comprised of 12 youth and six adult board members, and is a youth advisory board that provides input on local and regional matters affecting young people in Bellevue. Provides recommendation on strategic plans and offers solutions from a program and systems level. - Bellevue Youth Council is comprised of students from each Bellevue middle and high school who represent youth in community decision-making, and assist in planning and implementing community service projects via the various Action Teams and Special Projects Planning Committee.

The 4-H Youth Development program provides hands-on learning opportunities for youth, K-12. The program is conducted by adult volunteers in partnership with WSU faculty and county staff. Life skills are acquired through fun, experiential 4-H educational activities.

Teaches life skills responsibility, problem solving, decision-making, increased self-esteem, record keeping, communication, leadership, and project skills/knowledge.

Offers programs including cooking, robotics, SMART Girls, Dude Time, Magic Club, Film/Book Club and tutoring.  Teens awards may be offered to teen Club members who have exhibited outstanding leadership and citizenship skills in school and at the club.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County provide a year-round, building-centered, positive and safe place for all kids, helping them to acquire skills and develop qualities necessary to make the right choices and become responsible citizens and leaders.  (Affiliated with Boys & Girls Clubs of America) Activities include: sports, arts and crafts, health and life skills classes, education and career development classes, character and leadership development classes.  Call for details on specific activities, classes, field trips, and planned events. Each day, Club members are given a variety of activities and programs to choose from. The Club offers enriching games, academic support, time to play with peers, an array of programs, and positive adult role models focused on supporting the developmental growth of youth. Provides programs and activities to prepare young people for real-world success. Believes that by focusing on Healthy Lifestyles, Academic Success, and Good Character & Citizenship, the children we serve will be better prepared to graduate from high school, go on to college, and thrive as adults.

Summer camps include field trips, cooking, STEAM, sports, swimming, computers, reading, music, games, arts and crafts and more. Youth are grouped by age. Leaders in Training (LIT) program teaches teens the skills needed to become a camp counselor.

Runs a weeklong day camp for youth ages 8-17. Activities include learning to play an instrument, songwriting and social justice and empowerment workshops. At the end of the week, campers get to perform their original song with their band at a local live music venue. Campers do not need to have any prior music experience and instruments will be provided.

Provides citizenship and leadership programs.  The Lipton Award is given to young adults who demonstrate courage, perseverance, challenge, fraternity and integrity through their participation in athletics and in daily life. Youth of the Quarter honors a club member who has demonstrated leadership qualities, club involvement and community service. Health Adventure program for youth in eighth grade allows participants the opportunity to experience jobs in the healthcare field and work closely with an adult role model.

Summer camps include field trips, cooking, STEAM, sports, swimming, computers, reading, music, games, arts and crafts and more. Youth are grouped by age. Leaders in Training (LIT) program teaches teens the skills needed to become a camp counselor.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County provide a year-round, building-centered, positive and safe place for all kids, helping them to acquire skills and develop qualities necessary to make the right choices and become responsible citizens and leaders.  (Affiliated with Boys & Girls Clubs of America) Activities include: sports, arts and crafts, health and life skills classes, education and career development classes, character and leadership development classes.  Call for details on specific activities, classes, field trips, and planned events. Each day, Club members are given a variety of activities and programs to choose from. The Club offers enriching games, academic support, time to play with peers, an array of programs, and positive adult role models focused on supporting the developmental growth of youth. Provides programs and activities to prepare young people for real-world success. Believes that by focusing on Healthy Lifestyles, Academic Success, and Good Character & Citizenship, the children we serve will be better prepared to graduate from high school, go on to college, and thrive as adults.

4-H is a positive youth development program, led by caring adult volunteers, that focuses on the development of life-skills in youth 5-19 years of age through a variety of projects.  4-H learning experiences are designed to help youth "do, reflect and apply" the lesson to life situations.  4-H members build self-confidence, make responsible decisions, give back to their community, discover the value of teamwork and expand their communication skills through self-chosen projects in which they have high interest.  4-H engages youth in life skill development in order to help youth become productive, caring, capable citizens who are prepared to transition into adulthood.

Offers a safe, positive place for middle school and high school kids to go after school. Includes a Best Buy Teen Tech Center, tutoring and mentor programs, a stage, dance floor, green room, teaching kitchen and art room. Also includes a leadership program and free meals every other week.

Summer camps include field trips, cooking, STEAM, sports, swimming, computers, reading, music, games, arts and crafts and more. Youth are grouped by age. Leaders in Training (LIT) program teaches teens the skills needed to become a camp counselor.

Offers a safe, positive place for middle school and high school kids to go after school. Includes a Best Buy Teen Tech Center, tutoring and mentor programs, a stage, dance floor, green room, teaching kitchen and art room. Also includes a leadership program and free meals every other week.

Provides a year-round, building-centered, positive and safe place for all kids, helping them to acquire skills and develop qualities necessary to make the right choices and become responsible citizens and leaders. (Affiliated with Boys & Girls Clubs of America) Activities include: sports, arts and crafts, health and life skills classes, education and career development classes, character and leadership development classes. Call for details on specific activities, classes, field trips, and planned events. Operates a club in Centralia and Chehalis.

Builds youth's self-confidence, self-esteem, interpersonal and communication skills.   Works with youth with disabilities on leadership skills as well as learning how to be self-advocates through community service projects, learning about disability disclosure and different disability resources (IEP, IDEA, etc.).

Offers a youth empowerment program that incorporates mentoring and leadership training.  Programming includes: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) Lab Program, the Robotics and Computer Literacy program, Kalahi, a Filipino-American folk dance group and an Adopt-a-street program.