YDEKC Field Notes — April 2021

Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends:

We are so excited to introduce you to two new phenomenal women who have joined our small but mighty staff team at YDEKC! As we continue to shape our programming and policy work moving forward in service of our renewed mission, we are thrilled to have Na’Quel Walker join our program team, and Guneeta Chadha join our policy team. We hope you will have the chance to meet them soon! Here they introduce themselves in their own words so you can get to know them a bit.

READ MORE: Welcome, new YDEKC staff!

TODAY at 9:00 AM-April 22 — Register for a chair-based yoga session!
April 21, 1:30-2:30 PM — (for our Members) Advocacy Hot Topics with CM Zahilay.
April 21, 3:00-3:30 PM — Partnership Quick Connections, Part VI: Identifying Resources Through Relationships.
April 22, 9:15-10:15 AM — (for our Members) YDEKC Member Connect: Executive Leaders Check-in.
May 5, 9:30-10:30 AM — (for our Members) Advocacy Coffee Talk.
May 19, 3:00-3:30 PM — Partnership Quick Connections, Part VII: Strategies to Sustain a Multi-Organization Out-of-School Time Collaborative.

New! Read YDEKC's Deep Dive into the American Rescue Plan and ESSER III Funding Stream.
Apply by April 29 — CCER's Summer 2021 Elementary Learning Support Grant Opportunity.
Submit by May 4 — Executive Leaders in King County, please complete the Wage and Benefits Survey!
Apply by May 7 — Youth Healing Project grant opportunity for youth-led projects and grassroots community-based organizations.
New DOH guidelines for youth development and child care programs.

April 21 — Centering Healing in our learning spaces.
May 4 — Bring the Fun to Virtual Learning!
Support your own well-being and live into your anti-racist commitments through concrete daily actions with the Greater Good Science Center's monthly Happiness Calendar.
This recording and handout from the WA State Department of Health offer guidance for addressing burnout and building resilience during the workplace during COVID-19.
Get inspired by this recent BSK article, Stories of Resiliency & Strength: “The Youth is the Truth”, featuring YDEKC members, Y-WE and Soar.

Apply now — Rain City Rock Camp is hiring an Executive Director.
Apply by April 24 — Communities in Schools of Renton-Tukwila is hiring a Development Director. (For more job listings, see the KCYDN!)
April 17-June 16 — Attend one or more sessions of the PSESD's Humanizing the Data Conversation: An Equity Spring Series.
April 22 — Foundations for Summer Learning.
April 22 & April 30 — Upcoming Communications Capacity Building Workshops with Communities of Opportunity.
April 27-28 — Understanding and Addressing Anti-Blackness in ELO's.
May 15 — Trauma Informed Youth Work.

FEATURED YDEKC MEMBER - AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS PUGET SOUND

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This month we are excited to highlight After-School All-Stars (ASAS) Puget Sound, a YDEKC Member since 2016! They have provided free, comprehensive after-school programs for students in underserved communities since 1993, working to keep children safe and help them succeed in school and life. We are so grateful for Executive Director Ranna Daud's leadership on our Advocacy Committee this past year. To hear from Ranna about ASAS Puget Sound's work helping to close the opportunity gap through experiential learning, please watch the video below:

ASAS Puget Sound | Helping Us Close the Opportunity Gap

ASAS is currently offering free virtual after-school programs to students of Meeker, Dimmit, or Showalter Middle Schools. Sign your student up here for classes in art, dance, yoga, coding, music production/songwriting, creative writing, "Shark Tank" career exploration, environmental science, and social-emotional learning! Learn more by heading to their programming page.

If you'd like to support ASAS Puget Sound, considering joining Edouardo Jordan — James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur — and ASAS for their upcoming virtual fundraiser on May 6!