Education & Engagement 

• Hosted our second Youth Summit supporting 30 young people engaging in regional transit  

• Completed 16 field trips with local senior and community centers travelling to a variety of locations (e.g. Seattle Aquarium, West Seattle using the Water Taxi, Museum of Flight, etc.) with three new incredible transit education partners  including SouthEast Seattle Senior Center, Neighborhood House, and Horn of Africa Services.  

• Successfully launched a month-long Youth Transit Ambassadors for 11 young adults  

Fare Subsidies  

• Provided free, fully-subsidized ORCA cards to more than 10,000 low-income residents 
• Launched a second year of the Seattle Preschool Program Transit Pass to over 1,200 individuals  

• Launched largest-scale evaluation of the Seattle Housing Authority Transit Pass since the expansion to all 103 properties in 2023. Reached data collection goals with over 1650 surveys from SHA residents. 

Research 

• Concluded data collection for our Uplift Seattle’s Equitable Access to Transit (USEAT) study (launched in 2022!) Stay tuned for the published report with study findings in 2026. 

• Reached data collection goals and concluded data collection for Safe Access to Transportation Research! In partnership with 6 community partners, we collected over 1,000 surveys and conducted 25 focus groups with housing insecure individuals across our City.  

Transit Safety and Security 

• Funded two outreach locations for King County Metro Transit Ambassadors, prioritizing locations based on transit rider data and equity outcomes. This work was funded by the Seattle Transit Measure.  

• Funded increased presence of King County Metro’s Transit Security Officer program at 2 locations, prioritizing hot-spot locations identified in partnership with Metro and informed by Metro’s Security Incident Reports and Coordinator Service Reports. This work was funded by the 2024 Transportation Levy. 

• Wrote and submitted a Statement of Legislative Intent on the landscape of regional transit passenger safety to City Council 

TAP is committed to making sure that the programs are working well for the communities that are using them. TAP has been working on two data analysis projects: 1) Program evaluation of the SHA Transit Pass and 2) Analysis findings from the exploratory study for the Safe Access to Transportation Research. 

We have concluded data collection for both evaluations and will be spending the month of December cleaning and analyzing the data. We plan to publish reports outlining our findings from each of these analysis projects throughout 2026. We can’t wait to share what we learn with you and report on how we want to action findings from these analyses.

The Attorney General’s Office is recruiting members for the HearMeWA Youth Advisory Group. Youth Advisory Group members provide meaningful input to the decision-making process to the Attorney General’s Office’s Youth Program team. Youth Advisory Group members will be compensated for their time and effort. Youth will have the opportunity to: 

• Be in conversation with their peers and make suggestions when it comes to the HearMeWA program in terms of outreach and engagement and program feedback. 

• Gain leadership opportunities to facilitate and conduct meetings, compose notes, and hold the group accountable to the groups’ purpose and the community agreements. 

• Become more conscious of and knowledgeable about community issues and the larger factors that affect their and others' lives. 

• Provide a youth perspective to the HearMeWA Program. 

• Represent the HearMeWA Youth Advisory Group at events to create awareness about the program.  

Youth between the ages of 10-25 who reside in Washington State can apply to be a member and must have access to a smart phone and/or a computer for Zoom meetings.  

Apply by January 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM – learn more on the HearMeWA website. For questions or concerns, reach out to youthprogram@atg.wa.gov or 833-398-0179.