Case Management offered at Powerful Voices
Helps girls determine which services they need, when, and in what order. How to access them and provides adult guidance and support. Assists with developing and practicing skills such as communication, goal setting, time management, accountability, and self advocacy. Connects girls to the services they need most such as job readiness programs and employment opportunities, tutoring, credit retrieval, service learning projects, recreation, Aggression Replacement Training ( ART), mentoring, and resources for them to get their basic needs met. Our process to help girls define and determine success for themselves: - Intake and assessment - Relationship building - Designing a service plan-goal setting - Community advocacy and linking to services and resources - Implementing and monitoring the service plan - Quarterly evaluation of the effectiveness of case management.
Physical Address
1544 South Snoqualmie Street, Seattle, WA 98108
Hours
M-Th, 9am-5pm.
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Application process
Youth are referred by the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative and through self referrals, family, friends, school staff, outreach workers, counselors, probation officers, and community organizations. f a youth is not enrolled in SYVPI please check eligibility and contact the appropriate SYVPI Intake and Referral Specialist for that youths neighborhood network (choose depending on where they live or go to school) to inquire about enrollment. If a youth is already enrolled in SYVPI and would like them to Case Management, please contact a case manager. Referral acceptance depends on eligibility and available openings. Documents Required: Various paperwork is required once a youth decides that they would like to receive case management. Some of the paperwork requires guardian, school, and youth need signatures.
Fee
None.
Eligibility
Must be enrolled in the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative (SYVPI). Identify as female and be between the ages 12-18. If under 18, need youth guardian's permission for them to participate and their signature on forms.
Agency info
Powerful Voices
Invites girls to realize their dreams, engage their communities, and shape a more just world. Works with girls so that they can achieve physical and emotional health needed for social well-being. Girls learn to choose freedom from physical, psychological, and sexual harm. Personal safety and health are the critical foundation upon which we build healthy relationships and safe communities. We embrace the existence of many ideologies, racial or ethnic classifications, cultures, gender identities, generations, socio-economic classes, sexual orientations, nationalities, abilities and life experiences. Powerful Voices respects and appreciates the diversity of the girls we serve, and amongst Board, staff and supporters. Intentional inclusion of many voices leads to creative solutions for issues impacting girls and our community. JUSTICE: We believe in a more just society and work to promote equity. We work toward making equitable gains in health, economic, educational and legal systems. Recognizing that disparity exists among girls, we serve girls with the highest needs and those with limited access to opportunity. INNOVATION: We believe innovation enables us to fulfill our mission. We employ creativity and critical thought to develop new solutions and approaches. Our innovation honors proven practices while leveraging opportunities. INTEGRITY: We believe in acting with integrity. We are ethical, fair, honest, authentic and accountable. Integrity is fundamental to leadership, governance, operations and programming. WE LEAD PROGRAMS THAT BUILD GIRLS’ STRENGTHS AND RESPOND TO THEIR NEEDS. Through school- and community-based groups, girls will gain skills to develop healthy relationships, increase 21st century skills that lead to economic security, develop respect for self and others through the exploration of identity and develop leadership through activism and service. YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Girls will participate in group-based training focused on employable skills such as public speaking, project management, teamwork and communication. Projects will culminate in girl-led social justice projects such as workshops at Powerful Voices’ Girlvolution Conference and the production of a print and online Zine. CASE MANAGEMENT Girls affected by violence will be matched one-to-one with a Case Manager who supports them in setting and achieving goals in academics, employment and basic needs, while also developing skills such as communication, goal setting, time management, accountability, and self-advocacy. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Powerful Voices will partner with others to advance social justice through workshops for girls in detention, 1:1 mentoring (Adult Ally program), training other providers to use our curriculum (Girl Justice), and girl-led conference on social justice issues (Girlvolution). Powerful Voices will also be an active member of community coalitions such as the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative and King County Juvenile Detention Oversight Committee.