In 2023, Safe Homes Youth CAPS Division presents The Timpani Project® - designed to reach 3,000 individuals, distribute 5,000 COVID-19 Home Test Kits and 300,000 Digital Impressions through the Youth Empowerment & Advocacy (YEA) Team Model Cascaded Approach (In-person advocacy events, Pop-Up’s, Community Tabeling Events/Celebrations, Tailgates). To recruit and train 100 K-12 BIPOC & LGBTQ+IA (Two-Spirited) youth “to bring their voices to the center of the table” from Pierce, King, Snohomish Counties.
The Timpani Project® -will enable those youth to take active leadership roles in promoting COVID-19 updates, information and messaging to establish testing infrastructure and protocols for the distribution of COVID-19 Home Test Kits along with Communication of the Importance and Value of Messaging through Video ART that ensure safe, uninterrupted, full-time, in-person learning for K-12 and Healthy Children, Youth, & Families.
The Timpani Project® - is within a core set of infectious disease prevention strategies that has been established as part of the everyday operations of Safe Homes, its partnering community-based and faith-based organizations serving children, youth and families within the K-12 schools and child cares. For the purposes of the Youth CAPS Division a core sub-set is COVID-19 Testing Access.