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Contacts

Independent Living Program Manager
Rick Butt
phone:(206) 923-4891,
email: rlbu300@dshs.wa.gov
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

Emergency Hot Line

Office of the Family and Children's Ombudsman
Toll free phone: 1-800-571-7321
Phone: 206-439-3870
FAX: 206-439-3877

What’s New @ Washington

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Yakima Valley foster children lent a helping hand to college

Yakima Valley Herald, Nov 17 2009, YAKIMA, Wash. -- Like a lot of freshmen, Taylor Judd is living in the dorms and getting used to college. It's her first quarter, and she's still figuring things out.

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Foster Kids Struggling in Tough Economy

by Audrey Asistio, Foster Kids Struggling in Tough Economy
CBS KIMA TV • April 13, 2009 YAKIMA --

Once Tim Byrd graduated high school, foster care was finished, and he was on his own. Byrd explained, "They have their parents to fall back on if they don't have a job. I have to support myself, so I have to find someway to get money."

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Youth Boards

Age range of board members 14-24

Washington Legislative Youth Advisory Council
Email: best.judi@leg.wa.gov
Phone: (360)786-7451

Passion to Action (“Nothing about us without us”) for more information email: ilskids@dshs.wa.gov
or contact Rick Butt
Email: rlbu300@dshs.wa.gov

Additional Resources

Treehouse for Kids - Treehouse programs offer kids in foster care what all children so desperately need: a safe place to dream.

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Statistics

There are 10,068 children in foster care in the state of Washington.


Who are Washington's children waiting in the foster care system?

10,068 children in foster care
23.0% of foster children are between ages of 0 and 5
24.7% of foster children are between ages of 6 and 12

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