Dawn Stueckle
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Dawn has worked with young people in San Francisco for more than two decades, starting campus-based girls’ support groups at Lincoln High School and A.P. Giannini Middle School in the early 1990s and co-founding in 1992 the organization that would later become Sunset Youth Services. In addition to providing leadership for the nonprofit, managing staff, connecting with donors, and building relationships with young people served by Sunset Youth Services, Dawn partners with numerous community coalitions and city agencies as an advisor, change agent, and voice for the disenfranchised youth of the city.
In 2018 Dawn was elected to co-chair the Juvenile Justice Providers Association (JJPA)–– a consortium of community-based organizations that she helped establish in 2004 and which plays an important role in local policy-making, youth advocacy and has a strong voice in how funds are used to meet the needs of vulnerable youth.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
We are guided and informed by our relationships with our young people and families.
We are compelled to improve and co-create programs with our young people who are at the center of important decisions affecting them and who know better than us how to serve their communities.
We value diversity, equity, and inclusion across all identities. We are committed to the work of dismantling white supremacy culture and oppression in all forms both internally and externally, implicit and explicit. We are committed to continual learning and being held accountable for our decisions affecting the people we serve.
Everyone is welcome to bring their whole selves into our space. We are committed to a culture of safety and wellbeing in which differences are celebrated and everyone is valued and respected.