Dear YDEKC friends, I think it is safe to say that we are all having ups and downs, moments of clarity and confusion, and times when our inner voices are shouting “you got this!” or “stop being so hard on yourself!” or “just get out of bed!” I’m there, too. Some days [...]

Breathe in...... Breathe out...... Now with school in Washington officially closed through the the end of the school year, we are thinking about how the youth development field (and nonprofits more broadly) can be supporting parents and young people not only in crisis mode, but as [...]

Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends: While there is nothing normal about these times, we hope some relief may be coming to you and your organizations through local responses like Round One grants from the COVID-19 Response Fund housed at the Seattle Foundation, and from federal [...]

Breathe in...... Breathe out...... Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends: Amazing how quickly things are evolving in this new normal (which is anything but normal), requiring leadership and trust to evolve daily, like the murmuration that Adrienne Maree Brown describes in her book [...]