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.
HEALING ARTS
Our Healing Arts program helps high-risk youth and young adults reduce episodes of personal violence, and promotes self-awareness and healing through trauma-informed support groups with mental and behavioral health activities. Youth engage in connective group spaces to process emotions through creative expression and mindfulness practices, learn stress-management skills, and build resiliency.
Additionally, and as needed, Healing Arts provides support for our staff to process vicarious trauma and offers tools to aid in responding to trauma.
