On Saturday, April 27, more than 215 local Comcast employees and their families and friends volunteered to give the Labetayah Youth Home in Crown Hill a makeover as part of Comcast’s 12th Comcast Cares Day, which is the nation's largest single-day corporate volunteer effort.

Volunteers assembled furniture, built planter boxes, trimmed bushes, planted flowers and painted hallways, rooms, doors and floors. Comcast also installed 10 computer stations at the Youth Home as part of a new, Comcast-sponsored tech lounge.

In addition to all of that, Charisse Lillie, president of the Comcast Foundation in Philadelphia, presented the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation with a check for $25,000 to support their work.

If you don't know, The United Indians Labetayah Youth Home is a transitional living program for youth between the ages of 18-23 and provides housing and living skills development for homeless youth. For the Native American youth, which comprises about 30 percent of the residents, the Home incorporates Native American culvural components in their program.

Youth can stay for up to 18 months in the three-story, 25-bed home, and are provided with medical and educational services, case management, life skills training and career counseling.

Ballard News-Tribune photographer Heather Nelson stopped by to take some pictures of all the great work that was done. You can see them below.

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