Children and Youth Gender- Violence Community Advocate

Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?

YWCA SKS is the region’s largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.

We’re women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you’ll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work—
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YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish is seeking a Children and Youth Gender-Based Violence Community Advocate who is passionate about supporting Black and African American youth and families impacted by gender-based violence. At YWCA, this work is grounded in our long-standing commitment to racial justice, survivor advocacy, and community-centered care. We believe meaningful change happens when people are supported with dignity, consistency, and respect and when staff are supported just as intentionally.

In this role, you’ll work directly with children and youth ages 6–18, providing trauma-informed, culturally relevant advocacy in schools, community spaces, and family settings. You’ll help young people build safety, confidence, and connection while strengthening family stability and community partnerships. This is hands-on, relationship-based work with room for creativity, leadership, and growth.

You won’t be doing this work alone. You’ll be part of a collaborative, values-driven team that recognizes lived experience, invests in staff development, and understands the importance of sustainable, supportive workplaces.

Note:

This position is fully onsite and includes regular presence in YWCA offices, schools, and community settings across Seattle and South King County. This position has a social justice component allowing for critical thinking around how the external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty.

As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.

• Family and Youth Advocacy
• Provide culturally relevant advocacy with trauma informed approach to the children and youth (ages 6+) of survivors of gender-based violence, fleeing imminent danger.
• Conduct initial intakes to evaluate the needs of survivors and children/youth.
• Offer crisis intervention, grounding, and coping strategies in shelter, community, school, and office-based settings.
• Serve as a positive role model for children and youth by demonstrating healthy communication, boundaries, problem-solving, and respectful relationships, while encouraging self-esteem, resilience, and personal growth.
• Work alongside YWCA’s Housing Advocates to ensure children have access to available and appropriate youth services (i.e., high school personnel, McKinney Vento and Department of Children Youth and families (DCYF) and Child Protective Services (CPS) counseling and community
  -based youth programs)
• Support parents and youth in learning strategies for staying safe and developing individualized, age-appropriate safety plans related to home, school, online spaces, and relationships.
• Provide education to children and youth on healthy relationships, boundaries, consent, and personal safety.
• Partner with GBVSS Housing Advocates to identify families and address the needs of children.
• Implement YWCA GBVSS 8-week children/youths’ curriculum; that assists in the healing process.
• Develop and maintain an ongoing network of resources for children with coordinated referrals to link children and families.
• Attend DCYF and CPS case meetings for relevant families.
• Provide wrap around services not limited to emergency basic needs, direct resources to increase economic self-sufficiency, promote health, mental wellness, etc.
• Co-facilitate parenting classes through independent contracted licensed clinician.
• Maintain accurate and confidential client files/spreadsheet, complete HMIS, timely data collection and monthly reporting including narrative writing.
• Community and School Outreach
• Manage…