Samaritan Services for At-Risk Youth & Their Families

Samaritan Center of Puget Sound maintans a number of services for youth and families who find themselves in serious financial and emotional trouble. We recognize that when a crisis brings a child or adolescent into counseling, it raises intense issues for the whole family. Our therapists are trained and experienced in helping the adults work through the complexities of the situation so they can provide the care that their children and adolescents need.

Our Youth-At-Risk Fund provides counseling and mental health services for youth and families who are not able afford the full cost of the care they need. We also have a therapist who works exclusively with homeless and at-risk youth on the streets of Seattle, and provide supervision for counselor-interns who are working with at-risk youth on the Eastside.

Youth-At-Risk Fund

In the current troubled economic times, more and more of our clients are in need of fee assistance. The help that they desperately need is too often beyond their means.

Samaritan's Youth-At-Risk Fund was established to meet this need, providing quality counseling for youth and families with severely limited incomes. When youth are able to work with a skilled and caring therapist, positive change can occur. Hope is restored, and relationships can heal and grow.

Among the donors who make this much-needed fund available to youth and their families are the Glaser and Dupar Foundations.

To learn more about the Youth-At-Risk Fund,

call our main office at
206-527-2266.

 

 

Counseling and Mental Health Services for
At-Risk and
Homeless Youth

Samaritan has a full-time mental health counselor who works with homeless and at-risk youth in Seattle's University District and in Downtown Seattle.

She meets her clients in the drop-in centers where they come for help. Their stories are about loss, fear, anger, trauma and abuse, addiction, chronic illness, self harm and poverty. Gaining their trust and then helping them connect with the available resources is a daunting and seemingly endless challenge.

We are grateful that a number of our financial supporters, including the Stewardship and the Lucky Seven Foundations, assist in making this innovative program a reality.

Supervision for Interns at
Eastside Academy

Experienced, state-licensed mental health counselors who are members of Samaritan's clinical staff provide supervision for some of the interns who provide counseling at Eastside Academy, a program based at First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue -- providing education and other essential services for at-risk teens.

Samaritan is commited to collaborating with the many other agencies and churches whose mission is to care for young people who, without our attention, would be in danger of falling through the cracks of anr overburdened school and welfare system.

 

 

To contribute to the Youth-At-Risk Fund and/or our services for at-risk and homeless youth, please contact Samaritan's Development Director
at 206-527-2266 x109.