Company Profile
Company Overview
Atlantic Street Center focuses our efforts on helping children of all ages to flourish academically, emotionally and socially in the present, while helping them develop the skills and strengths they need to grow up to become successful, productive adults. We also serve the family by providing a variety of services to parents and other family members.
Specific services and programs include early literacy services for young children and their parents; youth tutoring and summer school for school aged youth; social and leadership skills development for teens and pre-teens; parenting classes and support groups for parents of all ages; life skills classes for adults; and mental health counseling for children and families.
We direct our resources toward low-income children and youth of color in Seattle's central and southeast neighborhoods. Each year, our direct service staff serves more than 3,000 youth and their family members. All services are free to participants. Costs are met through public and private grants and donations.
Company History
A brief history of Atlantic Street Center
Atlantic Street Center was founded in 1910 as a Settlement House for the large number of Italian immigrants relocating to Seattle’s Rainier Valley. Services were in high demand, and before long The Settlement House was providing medical, educational, and social aid to neighborhood families.
Soon it became clear that more space was needed, and in 1927 a much larger building was constructed on South Atlantic Street (pictured above). Administrative operations are still housed in this building today.
Not long after, The Settlement House implemented a school-based services model to address rising youth delinquency rates in Seattle. Atlantic Street Center still offers school-based services today.
By the mid 1950s, the Settlement had changed its name to Seattle Atlantic Street Center, hired staff with experience in social services, and began providing educational, recreational, and counseling services.