Improving the Lives of

Youth, Family, & Veterans

Safe Homes started reorganizing itself for the digital world in order to bring in new talent and new audiences even before COVID hit. “We were very much looking to embrace technology and engage with our community in the broadest sense, in a slightly more dynamic and meaningful way”. Therefore, Video ART became an important tool for learning, teaching, and communicating within the Safe Homes ecosystem.

 

While the pandemic has been hard, the pro is it helped to drive a wider change in finding fresh stories and fresh lenses to “bring youth voices to the center of the table” by accelerating the Video ART messaging plans which helps to facilitate telling those stories with “integrity and urgency”.

Safe Homes reinvented mission is multidisciplinary in nature and include work from the performing, visual, media, design, and literary arts.


Our work and support of civic engagement, arts education, and the creative economy, can positively impact every community across the state. In addition, we continue to provide services that support Arts & Cultural Activities that create diverse connections and collaborations, and champions innovation and cultural equity.

Community-based Non-Profit Organization

Making a Difference in the Pierce, King and Snohomish Counties.

Safe Homes is committed to helping the youth, their families, and veterans. Since 1995, the founder and principal, Janis Clark, has helped thousands of families and individuals to live a better life. Want to learn more about Safe Homes? Give us a call today!

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COVID-19 Response and Recovery

Safe Homes Board of Director’s under the leadership of the Founder/President & Visionary, Janis Clark created several programs and pilots:

In 2023, Safe Homes Youth CAPS Division presents The Timpani Project® - designed to reach 3,000 individuals, distribute 5,000 COVID-19 Home Test Kits and 300,000 Digital Impressions through the Youth Empowerment & Advocacy (YEA) Team Model Cascaded Approach (In-person advocacy events, Pop-Up’s, Community Tabeling Events/Celebrations, Tailgates). To recruit and train 100 K-12 BIPOC & LGBTQ+IA (Two-Spirited) youth “to bring their voices to the center of the table” from Pierce, King, Snohomish Counties.


The Timpani Project® -will enable those youth to take active leadership roles in promoting COVID-19 updates, information and messaging to establish testing infrastructure and protocols for the distribution of COVID-19 Home Test Kits along with Communication of the Importance and Value of Messaging through Video ART that ensure safe, uninterrupted, full-time, in-person learning for K-12 and Healthy Children, Youth, & Families.


The Timpani Project® - is within a core set of infectious disease prevention strategies that has been established as part of the everyday operations of Safe Homes, its partnering community-based and faith-based organizations serving children, youth and families within the K-12 schools and child cares. For the purposes of the Youth CAPS Division a core sub-set is COVID-19 Testing Access.


         In 2022, Safe Homes PILOTED, the “Timpani Project” that was funded by Health Commons Project, L2R Impact Fund. The Timpani is an instrument that has its roots in ancient times and can be traced to the primitive past. The ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Hebrews and other people used percussion instruments similar to the Timpani. It is with this backdrop that Safe Homes used “The Timpani” as a symbolic communications tool to help reach historically marginalized and underserved communities with information and education about COVID-19 Testing Access, Messaging and Vaccination. 


“The Timpani Project” 2022 - Outcome Based Evaluations (OBE) w/Logic Model-Results Driven:


  • Trained and developed 75 K-12 BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirited) youth in Pierce, King, Snohomish Counties utilizing the Youth Empowerment & Advocacy (YEA) Team members on COVID-19 information, awareness, testing and vaccination. The YEA Team engaged in leading research focused on successful K-12 COVID-19 messaging and key stakeholder messaging and shared those messages during in-person advocacy events and increased distribution of COVID-19 Video ART Messages with 60,000 impressions over selected digital platforms.
  • Reached 1500 individuals and key stakeholders through Video ART by sharing those messages during In-person Advocacy Events, Community Tabling Events and Cultural Celebrations with significant artistic components “in bringing youth voice and their active leadership to the center of the table” for COVID-19 Video ART Messaging.
  • Increased distribution of COVID-19 Video ART Messages with 60,000 Impressions on selected Digital Media Platforms.


  • In 2021, the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a grant for the MILWIN Division through the Nonprofit Community Recovery Grant Program. This grant award will assist with Safe Homes post-pandemic economic recovery.
  • In 2021, “Ready Set Test” – a parent centered pilot that expands the existing “Prevention Reboot”; that focuses on students in need of support socially, emotionally, and/or academically as a result of COVID-19 school closures and “stay-at-home orders”. Funded by The City of Seattle, Department of Education and Early Learning (DEEL).
  • In 2021, YCAPS Division: Prevention Reboot (PR) – The mission of PR is to strategically champion learning beyond the classroom so that all youth thrive in a community-setting. Funded by School’s Out Washington Elevate.


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Janis Clark founded Safe Homes in 1995 to answer the needs of struggling youth and families. Safe Homes expanded in 2009 to help women transitioning from military to civilian life. Safe Homes also provides services to help military service members, veterans, and their families.

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Cultivating Strong, Resilient Youth

Janis Clark was inspired to minister at the Morgan Family YMCA on Pearl Street in Tacoma's Late-Night program in the winter of 1994. It was there that Ms. Clark discovered that a young lady was being molested by her mother's boyfriend. Struck with emotion, she made a commitment and Safe Homes was born shortly after. With the aid of the Brotherhood Church of God, Janis began going to schools to help youth lead strong, value-driven lives.

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