Aspire Transitional Housing, AHAS provides tutoring to children, youth, and adults who live in transitional housing (contracted program through AHAS Service Center). Part of Higher Education Transitions Collaborative.

Boys and Girls Clubs (Portland area), partner to provide AHAS at Prairie View Housing Programs meeting space for
school-year events. Part of Higher Education Transitions Collaborative.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington, partners with AHAS as one of several collaborating organizations to
provide Back on Track (BOT) and Alternatives to Expulsion Coalition programming.

Clark County Juvenile Court, one of several partners with AHAS to provide Back on Track (BOT) and Alternatives to
Expulsion Coalition programming; co-applicants for grant funds.

Clark County Public Health, partner with AHAS and the Youth With Barriers Health Disparities Project on curricular interventions for prevention of youth violence and youth obesity.

Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center, partner to provide AHAS Outdoors and other environmental education opportunities. Two cooperative grants for AHAS educational services; No Child Left Inside, State of Washington, partnership grant; SWIFT Youth grant—AHAS students built a “green” outdoor classroom, “by youth, for youth,” used by 1,500 school children each year.

Community Choices, partners with AHAS and the Youth With Barriers Health Disparities Project; collaborator in pending grant application, represents over 40 organizations focused on mobilizing people around issues and solutions that impact youth obesity.

Dignity Village, Alternative Housing Collective, Portland; community gardens project; arts exhibition and technology project. Member of Advisory Board.

Dream Big Community Center, partners to provide meeting space for AHAS writing workshops delivered as part of programming of the AHAS Higher Education Transitions Coalition.

Dreaming Zebra, Partners in Art Education, provider of art supplies for summer AHAS program; collaborate in goods procurement.

Evergreen Public Schools, partner to present largest AHAS Summer Program, K-12, school year tutoring programs, and Art Saturdays. Evergreen provides transportation, educational site and maintenance, a dedicated employee for Play School a shared PreK transitions program with shelters. See http://www.evergreenps.org/AboutEPS/Pages/CommunityPartnerships

ESD 112, Youth Workforce and Truancy Programs. AHAS partners to provide Higher Education Transitions Coalition program services—AHAS has designed and offers a series of five workshops. Participants are below federal guidelines for poverty and are certified to experience at least one additional barrier to educational/employment opportunity. (Contracted program through AHAS Service Center). Also partner to provide credit recovery through participation in AHAS programs. Collaborative grant procurement.

Fort Vancouver, National Parks Services, partner to provide summer history immersion program. Field trips and overnight trips for AHAS enrolled students; AHAS student internships at Fort Vancouver; and, summer employment for 1-3 AHAS students. Consultant to provide educational support for their programs. Collaborative grant procurement.

Youth With Barriers Health Equity Coalition, partner with the Youth With Barriers Health Disparities Project, Harney Heights Neighborhood Project. Seeking Collaborative grants.

Ignite, Alternative Education Program, Evergreen Public Schools, alternatives to expulsion, credit recovery.

International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, (AHAS) Collaborating Site to develop social research innovations.

Kwamba Pictures, partner in K-12 student creations of environmental video public service announcements; See http://www.kwamba.com/services.participatory.html

LINKS at ESD 112, partner to provide AHAS Scholars Program.

ML King Elementary, Vancouver Public Schools, partners to provide summer program, K-5; school-year participation in AHAS programs. Summer site, 2009 and 2010.

Play School, AHAS Early Literacy and Early Grades Transition Project; Evergreen Public Schools. AHAS (with Giving Circle grants) created the Play School curriculum, and piloted in school-year and summer programs; Evergreen adopted the program and provides teacher for Play School students.

SHARE partners to provide free meals (breakfast, lunch, and snack) at all AHAS summer programs—for youth, families, and teachers and volunteers; collaborative grant procurement; coordinate busing of all children living in shelter to AHAS summer programs. Collaborators in funding requests.

Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (VSAA), Vancouver Public Schools, partner to provide Day of Service Program at VSAA, and to provide theater education, summer program, pilot 2009.

Washington Reading Corps at ESD 112. Pilot in 2007, three Washington Reading Corps tutors attended 20 hours each
AHAS, working with literacy projects; 2008, All (15), Clark County Washington Reading Corps tutors attend 30 hours of AHAS summer program. Five, Cowlitz and Skamania County tutors also attended.

Washington State Cooperative Extension Service, Food $ense Program and Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). Cooperative extension partners with AHAS to provide nutrition education to parents and children. Co-applicants for funding.

Washington State University, supervisor of internships with students in WSUV Departments and/or Programs in
Human Development, Digital Technology, Public Affairs, Center for Social and Environmental Justice, Political Science, and English have been completed with participation in the AHAS “laboratory school” and AHAS school-year programs.

YWCA Clark County, Independent Living Skills for Youth in Foster Care. With Higher Education Transitions Collaborative; referrals of foster children and foster youth, collaborators in grant requests.