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Across our network, partners are developing and implementing strategies that are showing evidence of better outcomes for children, youth, and families. Scale & Sustain is how Eastside Pathways helps those strategies grow, strengthen, and last.
We bring partners together around what is working and provide the backbone support needed to take promising strategies further, including coordination, pass-through funding, continuous communication, shared measurement, and advocacy.
Some strategies were co-developed through our Collaborative Action Networks. Others were developed by partners and brought into Scale & Sustain because their results demonstrate potential for broader adoption. In both cases, our role is the same: help evidence-backed strategies move from isolated success toward lasting systems change.
How Eastside Pathways helps successful strategies scale.
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Promotores Model & Providers Collective
Result: Kindergarten readiness indicators; family engagement levels; provider collaboration; and shared accountability metrics.
Outcome Area: Kindergarten Readiness
THE STRATEGY: Collaboration and shared accountability between Early Learning Providers and Community Leaders (Promotores) to better support families and children preparing to enter kindergarten, ensuring families have the power and resources to navigate systems.
WHO IT’S FOR: Families with children ages 0–5 in E King County with a focus on Hispanic/Latine families.
EP’S ROLE: Co-developer | Scale Partner | Funding Partner
STATUS: Active | Seeking Investment | Available for Adoption
Mental Health Assistance Team
Result: Increase number of students screened (BIMAS2); number of secondary suicide risk assessments conducted; rates of students accepting and receiving services; pre/post counseling outcomes (symptom reduction). Approximately 85% of students receiving CBT-based counseling show a decrease in symptoms.
Outcome Area: Grades 6-12 (Bellevue School District)
THE STRATEGY: A school-based mental health framework built on three pillars: Identification, Access, and Positive Outcomes. Students receive a universal mental health screening (BIMAS2) following a suicide prevention lesson (Signs of Suicide). Students showing mental health needs are offered free, voluntary, school-based counseling using evidence-based practices including CBT and DBT — delivered by trained school-employed counselors at BSD high schools, middle schools, and choice schools.
WHO IT’S FOR:All BSD students in grades 6–12. With a focus on students identified through universal screening as experiencing mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation; students who would otherwise face financial, logistical, or systemic barriers to accessing mental health services.
EP’S ROLE: Scale Partner
STATUS: Active | Seeking Investment | Available for Adoption
The Math Agency | Academic Caching
Result: IXL skill growth (academic grade levels gained); district assessments (i-Ready in BSD, MAP in Seattle Public Schools); comparison to district averages and peer cohorts; practice time via Khan Academy and IXL.
Outcome Area: K-6
THE STRATEGY:Personalized, high-dosage academic coaching and summer learning for elementary students in Title I schools. Small groups of 3–4 students work with a dedicated coach three times per week, each with a personalized plan built around their exact skill level. Family engagement is built in to drive learning at home. Operates during the school day and through summer programs across BSD and Seattle Public Schools.
WHO IT’S FOR: Elementary students in public schools across King County. With a focus on students from low-income households at Title I schools — in Bellevue, fewer than 40% of 5th graders at these schools meet basic state math standards.
EP’S ROLE: Scale Partner | Funding Partner
STATUS: Active | Seeking Investment | Available for Adoption
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Tilth Alliance | Youth Soil & Water Stewardship Training Program
Result: Skill development in soil health, water conservation, and climate resilience; youth self-reported sense of belonging and environmental leadership; cohort growth across pilot phases.
Outcome Area: Cradle to Career
THE STRATEGY: A hands-on outdoor leadership program for youth ages 14–18, centered on soil health, water conservation, climate resilience, and habitat restoration. Youth work with mentors in the field, build environmental stewardship skills, and are compensated upon completion. Delivered by Tilth Alliance at the Community Learning Garden at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland. Currently in pilot phase.
WHO IT’S FOR: Youth ages 14–18 across Bellevue, Issaquah, Northshore, and Lake Washington School Districts. With a focus on Black, Brown, and Native youth; youth reconnecting with land and their cultural relationships to the environment.
EP’S ROLE: Scale Partner
STATUS: Active | Seeking Investment | Available for Adoption
Noticias: Equity in Communications
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Outcome Area: Cradle to Career
THE STRATEGY: A transcreation model that goes beyond machine translation — taking school information and placing it in a culturally familiar context so that Spanish-speaking parents and caregivers can not only understand it but feel empowered to act on it. Topics in the weekly video newsletter shared through Facebook and YouTube include attendance, FAFSA, enrollment, interpreter rights, special education, scholarships, and post-secondary planning. Over the summer of 2025, the Noticias team harvested content from across their episodes and built a Parent Education Library — a resource parents can return to anytime, on their own timeline, as the need arises.
WHO IT’S FOR: All families navigating BSD and LWSD with a focus on Hispanic/Latine families, Spanish-speaking parents and caregivers across K–12.
EP’S ROLE: Co-developer | Scale Partner | Funding Partner
STATUS: Active | Seeking Investment | Available for Adoption
Benchmark of Quality
Result: Improve Panorama data; Healthy Youth Survey; provider self-assessment improvement across STC cycles; youth social-emotional and mental health and wellbeing indicators.
Outcome Area: High-School Youth, Mental Health & Well-being
THE STRATEGY: A self-evaluation framework co-designed by a diverse group of stakeholders — school districts, in- and out-of-school providers, youth, and families — to support providers in assessing the quality of their programs while centering equity and the social-emotional well-being of youth. Implemented through two phases: STC 101 (current state analysis of an existing program) and STC 201 (youth-engaged action planning to bridge gaps and build strengths).
WHO IT’S FOR:All high-school–aged youth with a focus on high school–aged youth served by engaged partners, centering those who have been systemically and generationally oppressed.
EP’S ROLE: Co-developer | Scale Partner | Funding Partner
STATUS: Active | Seeking Investment | Available for Adoption
Mentorship: Pizza with a Purpose |
Result: Improve high school graduation rates; post-secondary enrollment; Panorama data; mentorship session attendance; FAFSA/WAFSA completion rates; partner engagement data submitted monthly.
Outcome Area: High School & Beyond, Career Pathways
THE STRATEGY: A culturally conscious mentorship program that connects Black American, African-immigrant, and Muslim high school students with professionals of color who share their lived experience. Programming spans mentoring, Youth Leadership, Culture Classes & Events, FAFSA & WAFSA support, career investigation, and Parent/Caregiver Engagement. Co-designed by students, delivered in partnership with BSD and six community-based organizations.
WHO IT’S FOR: High school students in the Bellevue School District with a focus on Black American, African-immigrant, and Muslim youth; first-generation, immigrant/refugee, and economically underserved youth.
EP’S ROLE: Co-developer | Scale Partner | Funding Partner
STATUS: Active | Seeking Investment | Available for Adoption
WHY SCALE & SUSTAIN?
A good idea shouldn’t disappear when a grant ends.
Across East King County, organizations are testing approaches that are helping children, youth, and families thrive. But even effective strategies can remain isolated, struggle for sustainable funding, or disappear when leadership or resources change.
Scale & Sustain provides the connective infrastructure to help partners learn from the evidence, strengthen implementation, secure resources, advocate for support, and bring successful approaches to more young people.
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