Skookum Kids

Skookum Kids exists to mobilize communities to create a healthy foster care system. Physically located in south Bellingham, we care for kids and families from all of Western Washington.

We run a volunteer-staffed facility that cares for children entering or transitioning into foster care. With the children safe in our care during their first week of foster care, we buy critical time for caseworkers to find the right long-term placement. Our hope is the no child from our community would ever be placed in haste.