College Success Program: We help youth and young adults transition successfully to community colleges by combining financial support with social support. We provide non-traditional scholarships, tutoring, career counseling, computers, academic advising, books, case management and advocacy for our target population.
Youth Outreach: SEA partners with other local nonprofits that provide basic services to homeless youth, in order to increase the range of educational opportunities that they are able to provide their clients. Past Youth Outreach projects include refurbishing a computer lab at a local group home, cooking for Teen Feed, providing books for shelters and school programs that serve homeless youth, providing book seminars and art lessons for homeless youth at partner nonprofits.
Education Advocacy Training: Our staff provides free consultation to other grassroots organizations, teaching them how to adapt our College Success Program to their own unique constituencies. We also offer training workshops and consultation to service providers at other nonprofits that serve low income and marginalized people, teaching them how to provide higher education advocacy for their clients. Currently, SEA staff is providing pro bono consultation to the Post Prison Education Program, an emerging nonprofit that helps people who have recently been released from Washington State prisons transition successfully to community colleges.
