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King County Best Starts for Kids quality out-of-school time initiative extended for fourth year

By Lex Gavin

The Out-of-School Time Initiative, a part of King County Best Starts for Kids, began in 2018 and was slated to provide youth program providers with funding and quality improvement support through 2020. The initiative is designed to increase access to high quality and culturally relevant summer and afterschool programming for elementary and middle school youth. ...

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Seattle CARES—creating and becoming superheroes

Seattle CARES is more than mentoring. The organization invests not only in the youth they work with, but also their families. ...
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COVID-19,
Data & Evaluation,
Food & Basic Needs Support,
Social-emotional Learning
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Best starts and best practices—how 2020 highlighted the importance of ou...

In February 2020, the Best Starts for Kids Out-of-School Time Initiative (BSK OST) was heading into its final year of implementation. ...
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Social-emotional Learning
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Cascade Middle School students become wellness ambassadors

Students and teachers were settling into their seats in the gym of Cascade Middle School in Auburn, where the statement, “Today ...
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Centering Culture,
Literacy,
Social-emotional Learning
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Chinese Information and Service Center helps kids adapt to a new country...

A new student at Chinese Information and Service Center (CISC) had only arrived in the United States in August. When he enrolled in ...
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Social-emotional Learning
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Bureau of Fearless Ideas is strengthening intentional social-emotional l...

School has let out, and for youth attending the Bureau of Fearless Ideas (BFI) in Seattle, they enter their afterschool program in style: ...