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.
PRESS
Intel Works with SYS, Donating Laptops
August 2022
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Sunset Community Festival's Return Inspires Optimism
November 2021
News Article

SYS Provides Stability for SF Youth

Continued Outreach During the Pandemic
August 2020
News Article
ABC News: Dine11 and Sunset Youth Services
Partner to Feed the Hungry
May 2020
SF Giants Coach and Manager on
Dine11 and SYS Efforts to Feed SF Families
May 2020
SF Commons Nonprofit Spotlight on
Sunset Youth Services' COVID-19 Response
April 2020

SYS Wins 2019-2020
SF Symphony Award
September 2019
Press Release

Upstar Records Celebrates 10th
Anniversary Album Release
June 2019
Press Release

District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar presents Certificate of Honor to Upstar Records on behalf of the Board of Supervisors

SYS staff, youth, and District 4 Supervisor, Katy Tang at
8th Annual San Francisco Leadership Peacemaker Awards
SYS staff and youth celebrate with District 4 Supervisor Katy Tang
at 8th Annual San Francisco Leadership Peacemaker Awards

Co-founders Delvin Mack and Dawn & Ron Stueckle
with Assembly member Phil Ting at The State Assembly

SYS youth musician, Kyle Shin "Son of Paper" makes the front page of the Richmond Review


