[gallery type="rectangular" ids="1077,1090,1089,1088,1087,1086,1085,1084,1083,1082,1080,1079,1078"] Trust is as easy to destroy as it is difficult to gain. The staff of SAY's Coffee House Teen Shelter would be quick to tell you that it is often the first thing a young person loses when faced with homelessness. For many youth forced by circumstance to...
Read MoreHosted by La Tortilla Factory Over 1,128 kids will sleep on the streets of Sonoma County tonight. With programs like our Coffee House Teen Shelter and ...
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[gallery type="rectangular" link="file" ids="781,782,783,784,785,786,787,788,789,790,791,792,793,794" orderby="rand"] This month, our Dr. Coffee Teen Shelter hosted a cooking demonstration with Dr. Wendy Kohatsu, Mariah Hansen, PsyD and 5 wonderful resident doctors from Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa and Vista Family Health Center. These amazing doctors put on a healthy cooking demonstration for staff,...
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Youth homelessness has risen by over 61% in the last 2 years. While family homelessness has decreased (read more in the Press Democrat here) young adults are having a harder and harder time finding affordable housing and jobs. Overall, 1 in 4 homeless people in Sonoma County is under 25...
Read More701. You may have heard us talking about the 701 homeless youth who are on the streets in Sonoma County before. Have you ever wondered how we get to that number? Or wondered where those youth are? At SAY it's vital to know how many youth are living out on...
Read More[gallery link="file" columns="4"] From the desk of Susie McGavin, SAY's Director of Operations: This all started out with me taking an opportunity to use the coins in Kiera's piggy bank to teach her about coins, practice sorting, and sneak in a little math. We emptied her piggy bank and when we...
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Staff from Agilent Technologies participated in the United Way Day of Caring on September 12, at three SAY program sites: the Sunflower Community Garden, Tamayo Village, and the Coffee House Teen Shelter. These amazing volunteers tackled some ambitious projects: they brightened our hallways with new paint at Tamayo Village, gave new...
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When teens and parents who are in crisis call our free 24-hour hotline, our trained crisis workers offer conflict resolution, crisis intervention, and community referrals. Over 750 people called our hotline last year, and 68% of the crisis calls were safely resolved by our shelter staff over the phone, stopping...
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We have a new toll-free crisis number for our teen shelter, and we're promoting it our all month with ads on Sonoma County Transit buses. If you, or someone you know needs help, please save our new crisis number: (888) 729-0012. You can call us anytime, our shelter staff are available...
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[caption id="attachment_346" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Nick Mallonee is a Counselor at SAY's Dr. Coffee Teen Shelter"][/caption] As a counselor at the Dr. James E Coffee House Teen Shelter, I liaise with the Sonoma County Probation Department, and receive referrals from them for kids who are in need family therapy...
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