The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) was selected as one of nine recipients of the Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families grant, administered by the Children’s Bureau within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration on Children, Youth and Families.

In September 2019, DCYF licensed its first outdoor, nature-based preschool program: Kaleidoscope Forest School on Orcas Island.

I wanted to give you a brief update on our DCYF decision packages submitted to the Office of Financial Management last week. The DPs are publicly available on OFM’s website. Here is the link: https://abr.ofm.wa.gov/budget/agency/requests. It only works in Chrome, Edge or Mozilla but is public so feel free to share.

Former youth of Green Hill School (GHS) return to encourage community and agency leaders to continue their work for better and improved reforms in the juvenile justice system. At this year's Pursuit for Change panel, youth shared powerful stories of troubled past overcome by a will to transform their lives, some who had as recently as six months ago were released from GHS.