The SSPP strategy invests in efforts to support youth and young adults in King County who, as a result of systemic and institutional racism, are more likely to be excluded from higher education and employment and pushed into the criminal legal system. SSPP partners with community-based organizations to serve 12- to 24-year-old young people and their families, investing in direct service programs as an alternative to harmful punitive legal measures and driving policy and systems change work to shift the current juvenile legal system.
SSPP-funded programming builds relationships, provides guidance, and connects young people to opportunities that advance community-defined economic and educational success for young people and their families from any school district in King County.
This strategy invests in:
Sustaining the Gain (ages 5-24)
so that young people have equitable opportunities to be safe, healthy, and thriving.
Estimated annual reach:
1,400 youth and young adults
Funding Estimate (2022-2027):
$29,480,000
