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Youth Leadership Summit  

Join us on August 4, 2021 for our second-ever virtual Youth Leadership Summit! The Youth Leadership Summit is an inspiring, youth-led event where youth from across Washington state come together to present their advocacy recommendations to legislators and policymakers, rooted in their lived experiences of homelessness, foster care, and other systems. Please click here to register. We hope you can join us!

In the meantime, catch up last year’s Summit! Or learn more about the power of youth voice by watching the video below.

For further questions about this year’s Youth Leadership Summit, please contact Fernando Clara, at fernando@mockingbirdsociety.org.

These Are Community Issues

"A lot of young adults are already working on this. but to get any further, we need help from all of the community to continue making progress and going forward.”

– Dakota Neuman, Mockingbird Chapter Leader

Each year, 9,000+ young people enter foster care in WA state alone. And for the vast majority of these young people, entering the system leads to overwhelmingly dismal outcomes – outcomes we wouldn’t wish for any child.

Our systems must do better. For twenty years, Mockingbird's young leaders have been dedicated to transforming foster care and ending youth homelessness - and we hope you'll join them. We can all be part of this work. By supporting Mockingbird’s young people, you’re supporting a stronger community, because these issues impact all of us.

The Mockingbird Society’s mission is to transform foster care and end youth homelessness.

Working in partnership with young people who’ve lived through the systems we’re transforming, we change policies, perceptions, and practices that stand in between any young person and a safe, supportive, stable home.

Our Voices

King County Report

A Youth and Young Adult Community Response to the Regional Action Plan
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Notes From Annie

Our Collective Power is Strong

Dear Mockingbird Community, We are in a moment of change. The widespread and continuing protests after the murder of George Floyd have pulled back...
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Stories of Impact

Mockingbird Families Come Together in Crisis

In a time of crisis, Mockingbird Families find creative ways to support each other It’s the first Saturday of the month, and my husband and I look...
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