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.

The Everett field office received four perfect scores during their recent case review.

Everett rated higher than the state average on items 1 through 16. Permanency outcomes were also exceptional. Eight additional reviews had two or less areas needing improvement.