For the past year, Echo Glen Children’s Center has partnered with Yoga Behind Bars (YBB) to provide trauma-informed yoga sessions for both staff and young people.

Last spring, Performance-based Standards (PbS), a DCYF partner and nationwide juvenile justice standards organization

The Treehouse CARES Project pays for tutoring, school-related items, and extracurricular activities, helping to eliminate financial barriers to success in school. Benefits are available to children and youth in foster care and young adults in Extended Foster Care (EFC).

Kinship care and suitable persons are at the heart of keeping children and youth connected to their families and community.

Exciting Changes for Families on the Horizon

The passage of the Fair Start for Kids Act in May provides DCYF with resources to stabilize child care, support providers in serving the children that come through their doors and allows more families to access affordable, high-quality child care.

"We know one of the most effective things we can do [for justice-involved youth] is to bring peer-to-peer assistance to them.” – Gov. Jay Inslee

Licensed foster parents, past and present, are invited to join DCYF’s 2021 annual review of the

We are excited to announce that DCYF’s Naselle Youth Camp recently received the Performance-based Standards

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