Leadership Academy 2025
Spanish Below ¡Celebrating the New Community Leaders of the 2025 Leadership Academy! We are thrilled to announce the successful completion of Para Los Niños de Highline’s 2025 Leadership Academy. A truly inspiring group of Latina women has completed an intensive program from March through May, preparing to become impactful community leaders. Throughout the Academy, participants […]
Internship Graduation 2025
Spanish Below Our internship program has given 11th and 12th grade students the opportunity to work directly with mentors within our organization. Throughout the program, students visited various local nonprofit organizations, allowing them to gain a better understanding of different missions and community needs. In addition to these hands-on experiences, the interns participated in a […]
Change Champions: Para Los Niños
We are honored to have been recognized as a “Change Champion” in partnership with Boeing—an initiative that uplifts local organizations making a meaningful impact in their communities. During the match, on Saturday, April 19th, we were proud to represent our families and community as we were celebrated for our continued work supporting the Latin American […]
End of Year Celebration at PLN
Spanish below We hope this message finds you well! On December 20th we gathered to share and celebrate the diligent hard work carried out during 2024 at PLN. The board of directors, the staff and the collaborators had fun amidst games, laughter, gratitude and good wishes, recognizing our work, to continue improving day by day […]
Between Traditions and Art in PLN
Spanish Below PLN once again partnered with The Highline Heritage Museum, City of Burien, BUrke Museum, El Rey 1360, Northwest Orchestra, Highline College Start Zone, Somos Mujeres Latinas, Southwest Youth and Family Services and other sister organizations to plan and host La Posada, a Mexican Christmas tradition. Almost 400 people attended this celebration where games, […]
A Thank You and Pictures from Our ¡Celebración! Gala
A Thank You and Pictures from Our ¡Celebración! Gala Thanks to you, this year’s ¡Celebración! Para Los Niños’ Gala was a success! We at Para Los Niños de Highline want to thank you for supporting such a meaningful evening for us at ¡Celebración!, our Annual Gala on Saturday, November 16th. Together, as an organized and […]
Save the date for Giving Tuesday December 3rd, 2024
Spanish below Giving Tuesday is soon, and we’re thrilled to highlight the incredible progress we’ve made together over the past year! Our small team works hard to holistically support and raise awareness for Latino students, children, youth and their families through education, parent leadership development, and cultural heritage preservation. Join us on Giving Tuesday, it […]
Start of Programs 2024/2025 School Year
October began and at Para los Niños we started our Programs for the 2024/2025 School Year. With a full registration and a lot of enthusiasm, more than 130 families from our Latino community of the Highline Public School District participating in the various activities that each of the programs has prepared for the children, youth […]
End of the 2024 Summer Program at Para Los Niños de Highline
Spanish below With the participation of more than 100 children and youth from kindergarten to grade 12 belonging to the Highline School District, Para Los Niños completed its 2024 summer programs with great success. Elementary and Middle School The children participated in many sports, artistic, and concentration exercises through activities such as art, music, soccer, […]
We started our Summer Camp at Para los Niños!
Spanish below Around 90 children are participating this year in our Summer Camp, enjoying different sports, arts, cultural activities and recreational outings. They will have music classes, art, pool days, outdoor activities and much more. July promises to be a month of integration, creativity, learning and above all, a lot of fun for all the […]
Leadership Academy Graduation 2024
Spanish below On June 28, amidst great emotions, the graduation of the participants of the Para Los Niños 2024 Leadership Academy took place, a celebration for having successfully achieved their goal. Each participant shared a large part of their autobiography, sharing openly their human sensitivity. The purpose of this generation of leaders is to continue […]
Celebrating achievements in the community
Graduations at Para Los Niños de Highline We recently held graduation ceremonies with great pride and joy for each of our programs. More than 170 participants, including children, youth and adults, completed their classes for the 2023-2024 period: the High-Schoolers Programming Club and Internship programs, Computing for Adults, and Aprendamos Juntos (simultaneous education: English classes […]
Amarantha-Sandys ¡Gracias!
The young people participating in Para Los Niño’s Latinx Youth program, throughout the 2023-2024 cycle, learned different techniques to develop their creativity by making alebrijes, clay masks, calligraphy, and printing, among many other types of art. Thanks to the support and talent of the Mexican artist Amaranta Sandy, who with her teaching seeks the balance […]
UPower ¡Gracias!
We express our gratitude to UPower for its collaboration with Para Los Niño in the Latinx Youth program during the period 2023-2024. Coaches Azul and Sam practiced different sports with the young people such as soccer, volleyball, hockey, batting and others. Through their activities they promoted the formation of youth sports teams. Spanish below Expresamos […]
Expansión de Apple Health
¡Buenas noticias! A partir de julio de 2024, la Expansión de Apple Health dará cobertura de salud a adultos sin seguro médico que no cumplan con los requisitos de inmigración para recibir asistencia federal. La inscripción se abre el jueves 20 de junio para empezar con la cobertura a partir del 1 de julio. Por […]
David Paez ¡Gracias!
David Paez is a business administrator by profession, passionate about chess and mental games. “I believe in the importance of mental exercise in young people, which contributes a lot to their lives and develops different skills such as; makes decisions, analysis, concentration and memory, including the development of emotional intelligence”. For him it is a […]
Richard Le ¡Gracias!
We want to thank Richard Le for helping the youth in Latinx Program. He has been tutoring our youth and helps them with homework that ranges grades from 9th -12th and subjects such as math and history. When there is down time he also joins UNO games, Smash Bros competitions, Kahoot trivia along with other […]
Internship Graduation 2024
On May 31, the graduation of the young people who participated in the Para Los Niños Internship Program took place. This program ran from February to May of this year, with a total duration of 40 hours and with the participation of 10 young people from grades 11 and 12 belonging to the Highline School […]
2023 Annual Report
We are excited to share our 2023 Annual Report with you! Para Los Niños de Highline has come a long way in 21 years! We invite you to click this link https://plnwa.org/2023annualreport/and look back on last year and all that we have accomplished as a community in 2023. Enjoy the pictures and stories from our […]
Vote!
Vote, get informed and stay up to date in Spanish, Rain Language, Purépecha and Mixteco Bajo and English! Always seeking to inform our communities, it is a pleasure to share with you a video that we have created to inform, motivate and provide easy access to the information offered by the King County Elections Department. […]
Aprender y Crecer en Comunidad
Como parte del programa Creciendo en Comunidad, en PLN se han estado impartiendo diversos talleres para madres, padres, cuidadores de niños desde 0 a 5 años y mujeres embarazadas, en los cuales han aprendido diversas formas para que sus hijos puedan confiar en sí mismos, desarrollar las relaciones positivas desde temprana edad y diversas técnicas […]
Manteniéndonos Activos y Saludables
En Para los Niños se iniciaron las clases de zumba con la finalidad de bridar oportunidades a nuestra comunidad y desarrollar hábitos que contribuyan a mantener su bienestar físico a través de movimientos y pasos de los bailes latinos. Con esta nueva actividad los participantes hacen ejercicio, socializan y mejoran su estado de salud de […]
Welcome to Samantha Rosas our New Para Los Niños de Highline Chair
Para Los Niños de Highline would like to sincerely thank Bevin Taylor for her service as Chair for more than three years. We want to acknowledge this transition within our organization as her guidance as chair has had such a meaningful impact, we are so happy she isn’t leaving us entirely yet. She has transitioned […]
Legislative Day in Olympia
On Wednesday, February 7, a group of mothers who graduated from our Leadership Academy program at Para Los Niños de Highline was present at the Capitol of the city of Olympia Washington, in collaboration with the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Organization (WAISN, its acronym). in English). Where we advocate for Immigrants and Refugees so that everyone regardless of their immigration […]
Día de Reyes 2023
In many Latin countries the generosity of the season and gifts to children is celebrated in many Hispanic and Latin countries as The Kings Day on January 6th. Our Aprendamos Juntos, Play & Learn, and Leadership Academy programs celebrated this traditional day on the 4th of January of this year. We want to thank Remitly […]
A Thank You and Pictures from Our Progreso Gala
Thanks to you, this year’s Progreso Para Los Niños Gala was a success! We would like to take this moment to thank you for your participation and continued support of Para Los Niños. Together, we raised $67,846 to support our programs and services. Your generosity and involvement make it possible for us to continue assisting […]
Black History Month 2022
Black History Month 2022 While Black History Month is celebrated officially throughout February, it should be an every-day effort to uplift Black voices and celebrate Black stories. It’s also important to acknowledge that both the United States and Latin America have a history of overlooking the achievements of Black folks. We typically associate Black History […]
New partnership with Glacier Middle School and our program “Aprendamos Juntos”
We are celebrating! Our Aprendamos Juntos program has a new partnership with Glacier Middle School. We thank the principal, Vicki Fisher, and Highline Public Schools for allowing us to have our program on their premises. The Aprendamos Juntos program integrates the simultaneous learning of children and parents to drive academic success, children’s emotional development, and support […]
December 2021 Newsletter
Pilot Promotoras de Salud Cohort: Ready to Serve “(I appreciated) the knowledge we acquired about culture and personality – since this will help me perform my job as a promotora in the organization and my community.” – Participant in Para Los Niños’ pilot Promotoras de Salud cohort When parent leaders at Para Los Niños recommended […]
From Mexico to Burien: La Posada
Versión en Español Also in December, PLN partnered with The Highline Heritage Museum, City of Burien, Southwest Youth and Family Services and other sister organizations to plan and organize La Posada, a Mexican Christmas tradition reenacting Mary and Joseph’s journey to find shelter. Several Adult English students wrote about Las Posadas celebrations in their Mexican […]
Class Booklet: Cultural Traditions and Family Me
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