On May 20 at the Seattle Sheraton - four wonderful students from our New Futures and Education Center programs will take the stage to receive an educational award for post-secondary education. This is a rare opportunity to hear from the students directly about how SWYFS has helped them change their future. Register today: http://www.swyfsbreakfast.eventbrite.com

Southwest Youth & Family Services Get Inspired! Breakfast

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Join us for this fundraising breakfast to learn more about our enriching and vital programs for youth and families served through our New Futures sites in White Center, Burien and SeaTac. For more information on Southwest Youth and Families or the New Futures programs - please visit our website at w…

TRAINING DAY BEGINS! The Middle and High School program are starting to prepare for a 5K walk/run around White Center at the end of March. Will be a fun event full of super heroes and good feelings. Proceeds benefit White Center Foodbank and the White Center Community Development Association, as well as the YES! Foundation.
See you there!

White Center 5k Walk & Run

White Center's 3rd Annual 5K Walk & Run is on Saturday, March 28nd from 8-11am!! [Doors open at 8, Run/Walk begins at 9]!

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Earlier today, the 1st-2nd grade students at Windsor Heights went on a field trip to the Jungle Gym. We would like to give a big "thank you" to their wonderful staff for making it such a fun and memorable experience!

Congratulations and Good Luck to Deja in our Teen Parent GED program. She has passed 3 of the 4 GED tests, with the 4th coming up within the week. We are confident she can do it - and so is Seattle Central Community College - as she will begin classes later this month. We are so proud of you!

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Last week’s kinship celebration at Woodridge Park centered on sharing family food traditions. There were spicy dishes, vegetarian dishes, recipes that have been around for over 50 years, healthy dishes that are made weekly, dishes that reminded people of certain family members, and so much more! What a fantastic way to learn from each other & celebrate families!

Happy Valentine's Day from our Teen Parent GED class!

Congratulations to our own Lily Chim, West Seattle Rotary's Student of the Month! Keep up the great work Lily! We're so proud of you.

Valentine's is upon us and we are making cards to send love to our fabulous donors and people who make programming possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you and Happy Valentine's Day!

Last week in Windsor Heights' early learning program, Colorful Hands, parents joined their children to learn about dental hygiene. We love seeing those beautiful smiles!

Tonight we have 30 people going to KURIOS by Cirque du Soleil in Redmond, thanks to their donation of tickets. Here is a story of one of those students who was given this opportunity to celebrate his improvements with his mother. He was referred to Southwest Network; Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative last year because of discipline and truancy issues. He would get kicked out of his class everyday for being extremely disrespectful to his teachers. Things got so bad that he had to complete summer school and was nearly required to repeat the 7th grade because of his actions. He has shown tremendous improvement this year; he has not been suspended and attends school every single day. He is no longer receiving referrals for being disrespectful to his teachers and is passing most of his classes. He is looking forward to taking his mother to see Cirque de Soleil tonight, as his mother has always been a big fan and never been able to afford to go. She is proud of her son's accomplishments and thrilled that he has asked her to go with him tonight.

"I am glad I am in New Futures... It's fun for my brain. You wanna know why? It has all the things we need for like learning and stuff."

-Enrique, Arbor Heights 1st grader

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Last week, 6th-8th grade students from all three New Futures sites gathered together to participate in an incredibly fun workshop organized and facilitated by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Our youth extracted DNA from strawberries, built structures out of spaghetti and marshmallows, and competed to see whose aluminum foil boat could hold the most pennies before it sank. If you're wondering, the winner successfully held 258 pennies! Thank you, SHPE Puget Sound!

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Meet Don Marcelo, our class pet at New Futures Woodridge Park. Don Marcelo is a busy guy. Each week he visits a different student from the after school program. Here's a glimpse at some of his adventures!

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Seahawks month is coming to a close and our countdown to Super Bowl XLIX chain is getting short! We had so much fun learning about different aspects of the Seahawks this month; seismography and the impact of the 12's, ospreys(nicknamed seahawks), Roman Numerals, the PNW coastal Native American influences on the logo and jersey design, and last but not least, football. Through all the fun games, worksheets and art projects we have really come to appreciate our Hawks on a deeper level this month! We are all rooting for you in Arizona! #GOHAWKS #SuperBowlXLIX

Are you interested in event planning? We're gathering volunteers for our event planning committee for the Get Inspired! Breakfast on May 20. Please email us at development@swyfs.org if you are interested in helping - or attending!

Check out our brand new video! http://youtu.be/b_ZtwG7R3GI

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Thank you to KURIOS by Cirque du Soleil - for the donation of 30 tickets to the show on Feb. 3 at Marymoor Park! This is an experience that many of our families and students would not be exposed to without your generous donation.

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Check out Woodridge Park students' first day participating in an SOS Outreach program that will teach them how to ski and snowboard over a 5 week period! Along with skiing and snowboarding each week students focus on a core value like courage. Everyone did a great job continuing after many falls and encouraging each other! We are looking forward to learning more this week!

Today, 20 students are taking their end of course test for math in our Education Center. Wish them luck!

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Always a nice reminder that even champions start small! You never know who might be the next star in the NFL, classroom, city council, fire department, or really wherever a child wants to apply their talents in life. With some support and nurturing kids can overcome great odds to become someone truly remarkable someday!

(Jermaine Kearse, Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch)
#GoHawks #GONEWFUTURES

To use some words from a great leader, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr. Be part of something that matters. Get involved with Southwest Youth & Family Services. http://www.swyfs.org/get-involved/volunteer/

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Southwest Youth and Family Services needs YOU! Many of our programs would cease to exist without people volunteering their time and energy to make them happen. We have fun and rewarding volunteering opportunities on both a long-term and short-term basis … Continued

Save the Date: Southwest Youth and Family Services Get Inspired! Breakfast is on May 20 at the Seattle Sheraton. http://swyfsbreakfast.eventbrite.com

Southwest Youth & Family Services Get Inspired! Breakfast

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Join us for this fundraising breakfast to learn more about our enriching and vital programs for youth and families served through our New Futures sites in White Center, Burien and SeaTac. For more information on Southwest Youth and Families or the New Futures programs - please visit our website at w…

Congratulations to Kathy Arana, one of West Seattle Rotary’s Student of the Month winners. We’re so proud of your accomplishments! Keep up the great work.

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PenguinPalooza continues at Woodridge Park. Last week students took a trip to the Woodland Park Zoo where they got up close with Humbolt Penguins. Did you know the exhibit uses geothermal heating and cooling to maintain the Humbolt's ideal water temperature of 50-60*F?!

Are you interested in event planning? We're gathering volunteers for our event planning committee for the Get Inspired! Breakfast on May 20. Please email us at development@swyfs.org if you are interested in helping - or attending!