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Teen Peer Advocate Program offered at Asian Counseling and Referral Service

Promotes peer advocacy through weekly educational support groups at high schools in Bellevue. Also holds a weekly leadership and advocacy group, and participants learn by giving peer outreach and education presentations. By developing youth leaders known as TPAP Advocates, ACRS is building a youth-driven community that accesses and utilizes AAPI cultural strengths and core values like interdependence and group harmony to prevent dating violence. TPAP Advocates receive 40 hours of training on oppression, gender roles, dating violence, sexual assault, rape prevention and healthy relationships. Through training and advocacy, they develop leadership skills and healthy cultural identities.

Location

3639 Martin Luther King Junior Way South, Seattle, WA 98144

Hours

M-F, program hours vary.

Application process

Call for information.

Eligibility

Youth and young adults ages 13-21.

Fee

None.

Languages

Polish

Mon

Bicol

Teochew

Czech

German

Mien

Ilocano

Burmese

Shanghainese

Hmong

Laotian

Cambodian

Khmer

Tongan

Cebuano

Nepali

Samoan

Russian

Cham

Japanese

Bhutanese

Taiwanese

Hindi

Laomong

Khmu

French

Agency info

Asian Counseling and Referral Service

Offers individual and family mental health treatment including outpatient counseling, intensive day treatment, co-occurring disorders treatment and a program for people with a gambling problem. Offers substance use disorder treatment and a batterer's program. Also provides programs for youth, including substance use disorder treatment, mental health counseling and a violence prevention program. Offers case management services to enable elderly and disabled adults to live as independently as possible in their homes. Operates a food pantry, a meal program, employment services, ESL classes, citizenship classes and a legal clinic. Assists clients in applying for naturalization as well as food benefits. Some programs focus on serving Asians and Pacific Islanders.