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.

Contact: Sandy Nathan, Community Engagement

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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