We are united by a vision of a community where all children, youth, and young adults are happy, healthy, and successful.
Founded in July 2011 in Bellevue, Washington, Eastside Pathways strives to realize the vision that all children, youth, and young adults, cradle to career, thrive in school and in life. We do this by building a powerful network of community members and public, private and nonprofit organizations across East King County.
We are part of StriveTogether, a national network of nearly 70 community partnerships that works to ensure that all children succeed from cradle to career, regardless of race, income or zip code. We use the collective impact framework, with guidance from StriveTogether, to engage organizations and work collaboratively to align efforts to address the systemic barriers that hold back some children. Families, providers, schools, and cities unite around common goals, measurements, and strategies to maximize every child’s opportunity for success in school and life. We believe this approach, of working together and focusing on every point in the continuum from cradle to career (birth to 26 years), gives children the opportunities they need to be successful and is our community’s best hope to support them.
The Eastside Pathways Partnership is supported by the Eastside Pathways Backbone, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Values
We believe it is our responsibility to serve and support all children, youth, and young adults in our community in an open-minded and dignified manner. We value:
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Approach
Adaptive Leadership
Creating lasting change with multiple stakeholders across organizations is complex. We use the adaptive leadership model to direct the flow of projects, ensure progress, and measure for continuous improvement throughout the year. Evaluation, communication, and consensus decision-making are part of every phase of our projects.
Racial Equity
We believe that racial healing and racial equity are essential to accomplishing our mission of supporting communities and creating and strengthening the environment in which all children, especially vulnerable children, succeed. As a partnership, and in our mutual work, we actively support efforts to identify and dismantle systemic racial inequities that limit opportunities and hold some children back.
Our work seeks to inform and change hearts, minds, and the deep-held, often unconscious biases that are frequently at the core of structural racism. By elevating awareness and understanding of the inequities faced by children of color in our community and by working together to change the way we support and partner, we seek to fundamentally improve outcomes for children confronted by these barriers and open pathways to opportunities for all.