The Latinx Youth Reengagement Project report was developed by the King County Department of Community and Human Services along with several partners and in direct collaboration with Latinx youth leaders. ...
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Type: Reports & briefs
Reengaging Opportunity Youth: Action Plan 3.0
Our region is one of many around the country that has worked to reframe conversations about disconnection with the more strengths-based term “opportunity youth,” putting the onus on the systems ...
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Creating Paths for Change: Understanding Student Disengagement and Reengagement
Local high school students have spoken: 96 percent have affirmed the desire to pursue a postsecondary education. Despite this, we are not doing enough for our young people. Nearly 2,000 ...
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Local Improvement Networks: Working together for elementary success
The earliest years of a child’s life are critical to their education. Yet in South Seattle and South King County, only 35 percent of low-income children are kindergarten ready. While ...
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New Insights into the Back on Track Model’s Effects on Opportunity Youth Outcomes
South King County was one of seven communities selected to participate in Opportunity Works, a national effort to help opportunity youth transition to postsecondary education. A recent Urban Institute ...
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Let Us Succeed: Student College and Career Aspirations
Ninety-six percent of Road Map Project region high schoolers envision a future where they earn a postsecondary education and pursue meaningful, living-wage careers, but currently, less than a third earn ...
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