Youth & Family Services

Samaritan Center of Puget Sound is having a very positive impact in the community by improving the lives and future of youth at-risk and their families in the Puget Sound area. Samaritan counselors provide a safe place for the youth to learn to relate to adults, address life and family issues and work on developing positive life skills. The program currently includes four areas of need where Samaritan is partnering with others to have a positive impact on the lives of youth.

Youth in Need & Their Families

These are youth and their families who are not being reached through the Street Youth Ministries. They may be homeless or from troubled families. We are excited about this increasing service to youth-at-risk. We have on our staff, therapists who specialize in work with children and their families. Please call to find out more about these needed services and how you can help low income families help their children by making a donation to this fund.

For more information, contact us: (206) 957-4697

Eastside Academy

Eastside Academy enrolls students who, due to behavioral and emotional difficulties, are no longer welcome in regular schools (public or private). They are facing life without the interpersonal skills necessary to create an independent life for themselves and in most cases there is a lack of parental support. Samaritan therapists work with youth, families and staff as well as supervise two interns who are working with the youth in individual and group settings.

Street Youth Ministries

Street Youth Ministries (SYM) serves homeless youth between the ages of 13-22. They are committed to helping youth exit street life and work with hundreds of teens every year. They believe that therapy is a critical step in helping youth exit street life. This program uses therapists working with youth and staff in addition to having therapists provide supervision of interns who are available on a frequent basis to interact with the youth.

 

Project Goals & Objectives, Impact, Future Funding

With Street Youth Ministries, Samaritan teaches homeless youth to: accept & take personal responsibilities; learn empathy, sensitivity & friendship skills; learn to trust adults & develop adult role models; and learn how to plan ahead & make choices.

With Eastside Academy and Seattle Urban Academy (SUA), Samaritan will: increase students' level of functioning; achieve individual student goals set jointly by therapists and student; reduce suspensions and expulsions; improve or establish relationship between student and adult(s) – at school, home and/or in the community; increase students ability to focus on or feel more hopeful about their future.

This is an ongoing program of emphasis at Samaritan with future funding coming from a variety of sources. The emphasis will be on grants from Foundations and Corporations as well as building a base of individual donors who support the program annually.