The VYFS mission is to help Islanders raise thriving, resilient children and youth by fostering a community of emotionally healthy, resourceful families and individuals.  To further their mission and provide broad support to the Vashon Island Community, VYFS offers a wide variety of services in the areas of Counseling, Prevention, and Social Services.

 Mailing Address:
Vashon Youth & Family Services
PO Box 237
Vashon, WA 98070

• Classes for adults, youth, and families: anger management, childcare, child development, and much more

• Prevention services offer a variety of fun and educational opportunities, including

Parent Chat Groups,

Parent-Child Playgroups,

Parent University Workshops,

Parent Coaching,

Resources for Teens,
Partnership with VIPIT,

A list of Vashon Island Daycares, Alternative, Private, and Public Schools

• Vashon Healthy Community Network strengthening Vashon families, acting to reduce youth substance abuse, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and school drop out rates.

• JobFind for unemployed and underemployed adults

• VIVA, providing Island residents in financial crisis with support and referral to appropriate resources

Some services are fee-based and offered on a sliding scale, fully covered by Medicaid (med coupons) or partially covered by insurance; others are free or may require participants to meet certain income guidelines. For clients seeking counseling services, with advance notice, interpreters can be provided for sign language, hearing impairment, or non-English speaking clients.

Vashon Youth & Family Services is a United Way of King County agency. Funding for many of our programs comes from private donations, United Way of King County and designated donations, private foundations, and King County.

In this section of the site, you will find more detailed information about our programs as well as event and calendar listings. Surf our site, check things out, and let us know what you think!!

Vision for Vashon 

is a loose-knit network of individuals acting in response to the economic crisis and its impact on our community.

We exist to:

• Rally support now for the Vashon Food Bank and Vashon Interfaith Council on Homelessness to strengthen the community safety net that looks out for all of us.
• Rally support now for local businesses, including farmers and artists.
• Recognize longer-term opportunities, facilitated by the focus that crisis brings, to realize positive visions for Vashon – moving toward a more equitable and sustainable world, learning from others and ideally creating models for others to follow.  The crisis is an opportunity for new and creative thinking and acting.

What you can do today:

• Donate to the Food Bank and IFCH.  Please consider donating on a regular basis, to provide dependable support throughout the year.  Click Here for contact information.  (Check back soon for information about how to make automatic recurring donations through your credit card or bank account.)
• Please shop locally!  Buy from independent local stores, farmers, artists.  Use the power of your shopping dollar to help resolve economic inequalities that are a root cause of social, agricultural and environmental problems today.

·         Read landmark books that may change the way you think about your food and shopping choices.  (link to reading list page)

What you can do soon:

·         Participate in our upcoming series of community forums planned for early 2009 — check back here for more information.

• To participate in our planning discussion, join the Vision for Vashon Google discussion group.

Please give directly to the groups mentioned here.  We are not a fundraising organization.  Vision for Vashon has no budget and no overhead, and uses communications resources generously donated by others.

You can contact us through the Google Group or by emailing visionforvashon@gmail.com

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