Our Programs
We've worked with over 100 young people facing serious felonies that could’ve taken years of their lives. Through our advocacy, we’ve diverted 146 years of jail time—a 76% reduction in sentencing. But what’s more amazing is how many have used their freedom to turn their lives around. Instead of being locked up, they’ve stayed in their communities, graduated from high school, gone to college, and even started businesses.
Call us old-fashioned, but we still believe guidance and support actually work to change lives. Talking at young people is one thing. But wrapping your arm around them and showing them a better way? That's when change happens. Our programs help them stabilize their lives with housing, consistent mentorship, and real job opportunities.
CP-FIT (Community Passageways - Family Integrated Transitions)
CP-FIT is our cornerstone program, focusing on court diversion and family engagement for youth and young adults ages 12 to 24. When a young person faces jail time, we take a holistic approach to helping them stabilize their lives—advocating to keep them out of the legal system, strengthening family support systems, and providing employment opportunities. We offer alternatives to prosecution with family support at the center, working to develop essential life skills, including: emotional regulation, mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. By building on the strengths of each young person's support network, we help create lasting change that keeps families together and young people on a path toward their goals.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive provides intensive support to young men ages 15 to 27 across King County who are usually gang-affiliated with no guidance, and face the highest risk of being victims of or participating in gun violence. Deep Dive steps in with daily engagement and mentorship from people in their community with lived experience who know what it's like to be in their shoes. The program delivers wraparound case management and comprehensive support including: healthy conflict resolution, trauma processing and healing, goal-setting, financial literacy, employment support, and legal system navigation. This high-touch program is geared toward keeping our young people alive, safe, and helping them get their lives on track.
Community Support Team (Regional Peacekeepers Collective)
The Community Support Team provides critical on-the-ground support, expertise, and resources to prevent, intervene in, and de-escalate gun violence incidents. As part of the Regional Peacekeepers Collective—King County's Regional Gun Violence Program—this culturally responsive team responds directly to shooting incidents, helping de-escalate crime scenes, and calming tensions in hospitals, and gun violence hot spots to prevent further harm. The team connects individuals and families directly impacted by gun violence with comprehensive support, including: emotional support for post-traumatic stress, medical follow-up, housing assistance, substance use treatment, job opportunities, mentoring, and other wraparound services to promote community safety and individual healing.
School-Based Programming
Our school-based preventative programming offers comprehensive support within educational settings, providing weekly healing circles, culturally relevant curriculum, and mentorship for students, while also offering culturally sensitive strategies and training for staff. Through peacekeeping circles that connect youth and staff, the program works to build understanding, humanize experiences, and strengthen school community connections. Additional services include: tutoring, behavioral support, and case management to help students overcome challenges and reach their full potential in a supportive, restorative environment.
Seattle Community Safety Initiative (SCSI)
SCSI is a comprehensive initiative designed to build and strengthen neighborhood safety, restore and rebuild community connections, offer resources for self-sufficiency, and promote neighborhood pride and ownership. The initiative operates through three key components: Community Safety Hubs that serve as central resources for residents; Hotspot/Crisis Response and Safe Passage Teams that ensure community members can move safely through their neighborhoods—particularly students traveling to and from school; and Training & Professional Development to build capacity among community members and partners. SCSI takes a community-centered approach to creating safer neighborhoods through presence, connection, and coordinated support.
LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion)
Our pre-booking, community-based diversion program redirects adults suspected of low-level drug and prostitution offenses away from jail and prosecution and into case management, legal coordination, and supportive services. This program also offers homeless outreach in Burien and West Seattle, helping the unhoused—from the youth to the elderly—by providing direct services, housing assistance, and shelter placement. By addressing root causes through compassionate support rather than punishment, LEAD helps individuals stabilize their lives and avoid the cycle of incarceration.
Recovery Navigator Program (RNP)
The Recovery Navigator Program provides community-based outreach, intake, assessment, and connection to services for youth and adults facing substance use disorder. Working in coordination with LEAD, RNP offers long-term intensive case management, recovery coaching, and connections to a broad range of community resources for individuals with mental, behavioral, or substance use disorders. We meet people where they are with immediate assistance, providing referrals to treatment and recovery support services, and supporting individuals who are unhoused or struggling with addiction. The program currently serves the Central District of Seattle, Burien, and North Highline.
Re-Entry Program ("Not Forgotten")
The "Not Forgotten" re-entry program serves individuals transitioning from incarceration back into the community. Led by staff with more than two decades of firsthand incarceration experience, the program takes a holistic, intrinsically informed approach that deeply understands both the personal and emotional impacts of incarceration. The re-entry team navigates complex systems alongside participants, providing comprehensive support with employment, education, stable housing, financial literacy, family reunification, and cultural connection. By bringing lived experience and a personal approach to this work, the program helps formerly incarcerated individuals successfully reintegrate into their communities and build sustainable, positive futures.
Youth Leadership & Engagement
Across all programs, we actively seek and create opportunities for youth to engage their leadership skills. This approach both leverages and builds their strengths while creating avenues for meaningful input into community decision-making. Through mentorship and apprenticeship models, leadership training, attendance at public forums, and public speaking opportunities supported by youth stipends, young people develop their voices and confidence. Youth participating in our programs have shaped policy at every level of government, including contributing directly to King County's Road Map to Zero Youth Detention, creating Black Student Unions in partner schools, and engaging in Seattle City Council elections through youth consortiums.