Employment Services
Ages 18–24
Comprehensive employment and job-readiness services for young adults, with individualized support for education and employment development — including resume development, soft-skill building, career exploration, and education and/or employment navigation.
For more information email eduemploy.support@friendsofyouth.org.
Eligibility
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Currently residing in King County
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Ages 18–24
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Experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness
Services
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Comprehensive employment services including support applying for jobs, exploring career pathways, interview preparation, connections to local employers, and more.
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Readiness skills coaching to support young adults in finding and maintaining employment.
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Individually focused continuing-education support for local GED programs, two- and four-year colleges, apprenticeships, and vocational training
Additional Resources
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Safe Place
24-hour crisis hotline for youth ages 12 - 17. Safe Place coordinators assess crises, provide outreach and referrals to appropriate shelter and support services.
All King County Library locations, metro buses, local businesses, and non-profit organizations are official Safe Place sites—2,100 sites in total. See a map of Safe Place locations here!
Text or call - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
1.800.422.TEEN (8336)
We Believe in Equity and Inclusion
Friends of Youth welcomes, honors, and celebrates our clients, colleagues and communities’ diverse identities, histories, knowledges, languages, and cultures. Our organizational values shape the way we work individually and collectively, as we prioritize young people’s belonging and achievement. We work to challenge, alter, and ultimately dismantle interconnected systems of structural and historic oppression. We collaborate with community stakeholders and partners to develop policy and decision-making frameworks that advance racial equity.