Attic Youth Center Allegations

The attic youth center has begun a search for a new executive director the organization announced via email wednesday.

Attic youth center allegations. The board is deeply disturbed by these allegations the board said in a memo emailed to attic youth center staff on tuesday. Philadelphia kyw newsradio a nonprofit in center city serving at risk youth during the pandemic says lgbtq youth need and deserve more help. Dear attic community ever since we learned about allegations of discrimination and sexual assault at the attic we ve been resolute in our commitment to ensuring investigations that bring to light all relevant facts and institute changes to prevent the possibility of this type of harm from happening at the attic. Several months after the attic youth center allegations were levied the new acting executive director shawnese givens spoke at the lgbtq state of the union about how the accusations had prompted the organization to examine its policies and procedures pay structure how power is distributed and how we talk about power and privilege in.

I have a niece a brown agender queer person who was in need of therapy. Our primary concern is the safety and wellbeing of the youth we serve reads the. The attic creates opportunities for lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning lgbtq youth to develop into healthy independent civic minded adults within a safe and supportive community and promotes the acceptance of lgbtq youth in society. Carrie jacobs the founding executive director who was relieved of her duties in march 2019 will assume a transitionary role aimed at ensuring organizational sustainability while shawnese givens will serve as interim executive director and jasper.

Shawnese givens interim executive director at the attic youth center says the center has always been focused on creating a safe and supportive community for at risk youth but during the pandemic lgbtq youth need help now more than ever. Around a year ago i called this place on recommendation and went through hell trying to get. A source came forward to say that alleged crime happened more than a year ago to a black youth that visits the center often. 1 review of attic youth center i want to believe that this organization does good things for the community but i haven t seen it and my personal struggle to deal with them has lead me to have a severely negative opinion.

It was later revealed that the allegations come from a former attic employee. Almost two weeks after former staffers made public allegations of racism unfair pay and other grievances against attic youth center executive director carrie jacobs and director of programs christina santos the nonprofit s board of directors has issued its first public statement about the situation.