Mindsets Essential Skills and Habits (MESH)

Purpose: All programs and supports for high school aged students and youth center their holistic growth and SEL development and support youth’s thrival to and through their post-secondary lives.

Benchmark of Quality (BoQ)

Building of the BoQ

 

Diverse group of stakeholders (school districts, in and out of school Providers, youth and families) were convened to collaboratively build a self- evaluation framework called the Benchmark of Quality that will support in and out of school Providers assess the efficacy and quality of their programs while centering equity and the social emotional well-being of the youth they serve.

Partners engaged in this phase

  • Allegro Pediatrics
  • Balmer Group (Funder)
  • Bellevue LifeSpring
  • Bellevue School District
  • Bellevue Youth Link
  • Bellevue YMCA
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Bellevue
  • City of Bellevue
  • India Association of Western Washington
  • International Community Health Services
  • King County Library Systems
  • Lake Washington School District
  • Lake Washington Schools Foundation
  • LifeWire
  • Padres Unidos
  • Rainier Athletes
  • Seattle Children’s Hospital
  • University of Washington (Researcher & Funder)
  • Youth Eastside Services

Implementation of the BoQ

 

In this phase, EP Partners are participating in Small Test of Change (STC) cycles 101 and 201. Partners adopt the BoQ to self-evaluate a program that they offer high-school youth. In STC 101, partners have an opportunity to use the BoQ to do current state analysis of their program and in STC 201, partners engage their youth to build an action plan to build strategies/solutions and execute on them to continue what’s working and bridge the gaps that have been elevated through 101.

Partners engaged in this phase

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound
  • Eastside Academy
  • Indian American Community Services
  • Lake Washington School District
  • Rainier Athletes
  • Youth Eastside Services
  • YouthLink (City of Bellevue)

Phases of the MESH Collaborative

Resources

View glossary of core concepts for MESH used frequently within the Eastside Pathways Partnership work.

View tools and resources to help accelerate the collective impact work of the Partnership.