Publishes poetry, writings, and personal stories accepted from youth across Washington state in The Mockingbird Times.  
The Mockingbird Youth Network is a statewide initiative bringing together youth and alumni of foster and kinship care to provide leadership training and help them realize their potential as productive citizens. 
Provides stipends for homeless youth participants. Youth and young adult writers are paid for publications.

Youth Services offered at Mockingbird Society

Provides opportunities for youth who have experienced foster care and/or homelessness to connect for peer support, develop advocacy skills, submit writing and personal stories, and be published in a locally produced newspaper.

Organizations that print and/or distribute or otherwise make available daily, weekly or other regularly scheduled papers that contain news, editorials, features, advertising and articles about other matters of current interest.

Newspaper Publishing/Distribution

Programs that seek to ensure broad participation by community residents in government decision making and the political process by encouraging them to serve on government boards and commissions; attend public hearings, council meetings, town meetings, school board meetings and other forums in which public policy issues are being discussed and decisions are being made; communicate with elected officials via correspondence, email, telephone or other means; participate in programs designed to familiarize people with local government departments, facilities and services; and use other similar vehicles to become proactively involved in community affairs.

Community Involvement Programs

Programs that intercede on behalf of individuals to help them establish eligibility for or obtain needed services when they have been denied benefits or services for which they are eligible, when they need assistance to communicate their needs to a service provider or to otherwise effectively represent themselves, or when they have a complaint about a service. Individual advocacy attempts to reach equitable settlements without resorting to litigation and seeks to meet individual needs without attempting to change social institutions.

Individual Advocacy

Programs that provide opportunities for individuals of all ages to develop their leadership and management skills through participation in activities which require planning a workscope, organizing ways to achieve planned objectives, motivating members to complete tasks they have agreed to perform and evaluating the group's progress; or through training which addresses these skills.

Leadership Development

Organizations that support measures that address the needs of people who are, or are at risk of becoming, homeless including the need for shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, medical care and basic human rights.

Homelessness Advocacy Groups

Provides an opportunity for youth and young adults to engage in local decision-making processes, meet with policymakers and funders, and prepare for and engage in public speaking opportunities. 
Holds monthly chapter meetings to develop supportive relationships, build skills, and discuss current issues impacting homeless youth and young adults. 
Provides youth-focused training, including Storytelling for Advocacy, and Legislative Advocacy. 
Public speaking engagements including panels, workgroups/task forces, media requests, keynote speeches, and custom trainings and presentations that center the voices of lived experience experts.

Youth Advocates Ending Homelessness offered at Mockingbird Society

Helps youth ages 13-24 engage in local decision-making processes, meeting with policymakers and funders, and preparing for and engaging in public speaking opportunities.

Programs that provide opportunities for students and/or school-age children and youth to make a contribution to their local community through volunteer service projects or other forms of assistance. The purpose of the program is to develop leadership skills and good citizenship practices in youngsters who are interested in service to others.

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Youth Services offered at Mockingbird Society

Youth Advocates Ending Homelessness offered at Mockingbird Society