As rain pours down outside foster youth support organization Treehouse’s office on a gloomy fall day, a group is gathered in a brightly lit conference room, considering the nonprofit’s future.
“Not all foster care is equal,” said Andrew Berube, who went into foster care when he was 13 years old. Now 22, he’s part of the first cohort of a new fellowship program with Treehouse that builds on the philosophy that children know their wants and needs as they grow, and that making a lasting, positive impact on the systems they experience means bringing more of them to the table. Treehouse is one of 13 nonprofits benefiting from readers’ donations to The Seattle Times Fund for Those in Need.
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