Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends, Well, here we are on May the fourth, and entering Phase One tomorrow of the extended Stay Home, Stay Healthy protocols for Washington State. Our member organizations continue to offer the essential service of child care for school age children [...]

Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends, This race (marathon? ironman? ultramarathon?) we are running without knowing the course or distance is pretty exhausting, eh? We are trying to pace ourselves  — and hope that you are too — and we know that each of us is experiencing a very [...]

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 [...]