Highline Times: New director chosen by New Futures
“It’s exciting to invest my time and energy into a program and mission that is improving the lives of kids and families in my local community,” Kreizenbeck said. “The move from global health research to New Futures is natural because there is a similar underlying philosophy to both endeavors…” (click to read full article)
Highline Times: Vintage Park purchase spurs affordable housing concerns
“If nothing us done, we will see this happen to places like Vintage Park over and over until our affordable housing dwindles into nothing…” (Click to read full article)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: New Futures helps immigrants lower language barriers
“Helping a child with homework can challenge the patience of any parent. But when the homework is in a language the parent can’t read, speak or write, the challenge can be insurmountable…” (click to read full article)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: New Futures wants to help more kids expand horizons
“Laura Silverstein is looking for a new rental complex, and she’s got some pretty specific requirements that aren’t high on most apartment hunters’ wish lists. ‘We’re looking for the lowest-income, highest crime-rate apartments with the most children…’” (click to read full article)
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Evaluation Blues, by Associate Director, Laura Silverstein and Casey Family Program’s Erin Maher.
“The families living in the Vintage Park apartments in King County, Wash., have two things in common: their daily hardships and their passion for their children’s success. Almost all are recent immigrants. Most live without enough food and clothing. Many speak only P’urhepecha, the language of an indigenous community in Michoacán, Mexico. All live in an apartment complex built in the 1940s as temporary housing for World War II veterans that now hosts mold and occasional gas leaks.” (click to read full article)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: A New Future tempts teens with the badge
“Surrounded by teens in a White Center apartment last week, King County Sheriff’s Deputy Peter Thalhofer first drew his baton, then his taser. “Fire it,” one of the bigger boys in the group said, clearly not intimidated by the deputy’s show of force…” (click to read full article)
Visit our Press Archives to read more press about New Futures.
“New Futures is doing what it can to help. It offers after-school programs for kids to help with reading. It helps families navigate and advocate within the school system. […]
[New Futures] hasn’t stopped poverty from growing, but it has cut crime, improved reading scores and helped foster better contact between parents and schools.”
Alwyn Scott
Editor, Puget Sound Business Journal
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