First Place for Youth
Kate Atterbury is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in grant management and program coordination. Currently serving as Grant Manager at First Place for Youth since 2022, Atterbury previously held roles such as Program and Knowledge Management Coordinator with the Healthy Cities for Adolescents Program from 2019 to 2022, and Management Consultant at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018. Earlier in the career, Atterbury worked as Community Development Manager at the American Cancer Society from 2016 to 2017, and as Development Specialist at the Public Health Institute from 2013 to 2016. Atterbury holds a Master of Public Affairs from Brown University and a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
First Place for Youth
First Place for Youth was founded in 1998 to prevent poverty and homelessness among youth who age out of foster care. The mission of First Place is to help foster youth build the skills they need to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency and responsible adulthood. First Place was the first organization dedicated exclusively to providing housing for transitioning foster youth in Northern California and has grown into the state’s largest provider for this vulnerable population. First Place utilizes a scattered-site housing program model, which puts youth in a realistic, independent setting in their local communities.