DCAYA’s mission has been endorsed by a breadth of local youth-engaged organizations as members, now numbering over 50. Our members are nongovernmental youth-engaged organizations operating in all of the District’s wards, providing all manner of opportunities and supports, and serving all subpopulations of young people. Our organization members range from single-purpose groups with all-volunteer staff, small budgets, and a low volume of service users to multi-purpose agencies with diverse funding streams, large staffs, and thousands of service users.

What binds us together is our shared commitment to the positive development of youth and their families and the safety and stability of the neighborhoods and city in which they live, study, work, and play. Members embrace the premise that the youth-engaged sector needs an organizational venue in which to build common values, represent the sector, and communicate unified positions to key stakeholders and the general public—that forum is DCAYA.

DCAYA Members

Advocates for Justice & Education, Inc
Alcanzando Metas Foundation
Asian American Lead (AALEAD)
Beacon House
Benning Learning Communities Initiative
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington
Brainfood
Bread for the City
Break the Cycle
Center for Youth and Family Investment
Chess Challenge in DC
Child and Family Services Agency
City at Peace
College Bound
Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support Collaborative
Community Preservation and Development Corporation
Covenant House, Washington
Dance Institute of Washington
DC Action For Children
DC Assembly on School-Based Health Care

DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
DC Fiscal Policy Institute
DC Hunger Solutions
DC Lawyers for Youth
DC Metro PFLAG
DC Primary Care Association
DC Public Library
DC Scores
DC Tobacco Free Families
DC Youth Advisory Council
Different Avenues
Dream City
Earth Conservation Corps
Emergence Community Arts Collective
Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY)
FAIR Fund
FAN (Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso) DC
Financial Literacy Foundation
For Love of Children (FLOC)
Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop
Friendship House Association, Inc
GCH Endowment
Heads Up
Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Council
Higher Achievement Program
Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund
Horton's Kids
Inquiring Minds Consulting
Institute for Behavioral Change
Interfaith Child Advocacy Network of Metro Washington
Interstages
Jubilee Housing
Juma Ventures
Junior Achievement
Kid Power DC
Kimsey Foundation
Latin American Youth Center (LAYC)
Life Pieces to Masterpieces, Inc
LifeSTARTS
LINK (Linking Communities for Educational Success)
Marshall Heights Community Development Organization
Martha's Table
Mary's Center for Maternal & Child Care
Mentors, Inc.
Mentoring ToDAY
Metro TeenAIDS
National Alliance to End Homelessness
National Organization of Concerned Black Men
National Center for Children and Families
Operation HOPE Banking on Our Future
Perry School Community Services Center, Inc.
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC
Polaris Project
Public Defender Service
Raising Expectations Inc.
Reach4Success
Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc.

See Forever Foundation: Oak Hill Academy
The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL)
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Sitar Arts Center
Urban Alliance Foundation
Vietnamese-American Community Services Center (VACSC)

Visions To Peace Project
Washington Youth Choir
Wellness, Inc
Wider Opportunities for Women
Women Empowered Against Violence, Inc. (WEAVE)
Youth Action Research Group (YARG)
Young Women's Drumming Empowerment Project
Young Women's Project
Youth Education Alliance (YEA)
Youth Leadership Support Network

YWCA of the National Capital Area

Other Allies

Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation
Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support Collaborative
Council of Latino Agencies
DC Creative Writing Workshop
Fair Chance DC
DC Youth Advisory Committee – Executive Office of the Mayor

VSA arts
The Fishing School
Justice 4 DC Youth Coalition (JDCY)
The Kennedy Center
Project Northstar
Reaching Inside for Self-Esteem Inc.
2M Center