Summary
Organization name
Friends of Echo Glen
Category
Philanthropy & Voluntarism
Address
704 228th Ave NE Ste 204Sammamish, WA 98074-7222
Friends of Echo Glen, a DBA under Smile Power, is a 100% volunteer community that exists with the sole purpose of helping the youth at Echo Glen Juvenile Correction Center to rewrite the scripts of their lives. These teens have immense untapped potential. We help them gain self-esteem by providing essential building blocks for healthy development thus breaking the cycle of neglect and abuse.
Echo Glen is a Washington State Correction Center and a school operated by the Issaquah School District. The facility has approximately 85 male and female youth in residence, ranging in age from 10 to 25 years old. They come from every part of the state, and all have great untapped potential.
90% of young people in the juvenile justice system have experienced childhood trauma such as homelessness, gang violence, and physical and sexual abuse - which affects almost all of the incarcerated girls. Many of their families have also experienced inter-generational trauma. This seems to be a continuous cycle -one that Echo Glen staff is determined to break. Nearly all of these young people have dangerously low self-esteem; they crave positive attention from adults and need good role models.
Organization name
Friends of Echo Glen
Category
Philanthropy & Voluntarism
Address
704 228th Ave NE Ste 204