Mount Vernon - Skills for Supervising People with Lived Expertise

Skagit Valley Family YMCA

1901 Hoag Road, 98273, Mount Vernon, WA, United States

ABC Training & Consulting

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Ashley (they/them) is a queer youth homelessness prevention expert, focused on putting power and resources into young people’s hands. They have spent nearly 15 years working at the intersection of youth homelessness and other caring systems in Washington State and across the US. During that time, they have built youth programs from the ground up with and for young people involved with systems, and love the challenge of collaborating with multiple stakeholders to build processes that work – because that is what young people deserve. Most recently, Ashley has been working with incredible local communities to build direct cash transfer programs, coordinate nationally around youth homelessness prevention, and redesign their homelessness response systems with quality by-name list data, prevention, youth expertise, and racial and LGBTQ justice at the center. Not only have they learned alongside those communities what it takes to make transformative change, but have gotten to coach the first two communities in Washington state to show measurable, sustained reductions in youth homelessness. Ashley holds a Master of Education in Prevention Science and Practice from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, focusing on the intersections of adolescent trauma and liberatory education praxis. They served as a Rappaport Public Policy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, working with the City of Boston Continuum of Care on implementation of their Rising to the Challenge plan to end youth homelessness.