The 2024-25 Early Achievers Needs-Based Grant opened for applications on July 2, 2024. DCYF offers Needs-Based Grants to eligible licensed child care providers participating in Early Achievers. 

Early Achievers participants may be eligible for a $1,000 Needs-Based Grant if they meet at least one of the following criteria:

Olympia, WA – All child welfare cases in Washington state will now be considered an Indian child welfare case if there is reason to know a child may be an Indian child, or until it can be ruled otherwise under the newly revised Indian Child Welfare (ICW) policies and procedures that go into effect on July 1.

After two years of working towards reunification, one couple graduated from Yakima County’s Family Recovery Court (FRC) and were reunited with their two-year-old. The family will be celebrating this achievement on June 27 during a Reunification Month Ceremony.  

The Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) celebrated the first cohort of young people to earn their bachelor’s degree while at a juvenile rehabilitation (JR) facility.