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2025 Bridge Conference Highlights—Together We Rise

By School's Out Washington

We were proud to see our conference theme, Together We Rise, resonate through every keynote, workshop, and conversation as hundreds of changemakers from across Washington gathered to celebrate and lean into collective resilience, empowerment, and shared success.

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SOWA’s coaching philosophy in action

Coaching is at the heart of SOWA’s work in the community. Below is a conversation with Maria Pia Johnson Barreto, who has been a coach with SOWA in Spokane for over two years and is...

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Centering Culture,
COVID-19,
Social-emotional Learning
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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. Their mission is to secure and transform the lives of Black children by...

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Centering Culture,
COVID-19
Community Spotlights, Stories

African Young Dreamers Empowerment Program Intl.—amplifying youth voice ...

The African Young Dreamers Empowerment Program Intl. (AYDEPI) was established in 2019 in response to missing resources for young immigrants in South King County....

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Best Starts for Kids,
Literacy
Community Spotlights, Stories

How literacy is changing lives and building community in Kent

Coalition for Refugees from Burma (CRB), based in Kent, knows that literacy is a vehicle that changes lives. Their programs provide support for immigrant and refugee communities across the age...

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COVID-19,
STEM
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Wenas Mammoth Foundation—bringing earth science to life in Central Washi...

What if we told you that Mammoths roamed Washington 16,000 years ago? What if we told you that you and your family could see it for yourself? The Wenas Mammoth Foundation (WMF) prides themselves on...

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Youth Development Professionals
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Building Quality in Washington State

The origins of quality improvement Since 2008, School’s Out Washington has been leading the effort to build and sustain a quality improvement system for expanded learning programs. The impetus...

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