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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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Bridge Conference,
Youth Development Professionals
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The seeds we sow and centering equity

The 2020 Bridge Team decided on seven core values that help ground and inform how we intentionally move the work forward ...
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Bridge Conference,
Youth Development Professionals
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Reflections on Bridge’s core values—innovation

"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same ...
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COVID-19
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Boys and Girls Club of Chehalis gives youth of essential works a place t...

In an interview with Lauren Day, Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club of Chehalis, she talked about the experience ...
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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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Youth Development Professionals
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Best Starts OST organization tell their stories far and wide

“What’s a constituent?” the boy asks quizzically, after sounding out the word with a staff member sitting at the table with ...
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