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On April 19, President Cauce visited Evergreen High School in the Highline School District to visit with 91̽»¨ students who are mentors in the 91̽»¨Dream Project. The 91̽»¨Dream Project is a service learning course and post-secondary planning/college access program housed out of two 91̽»¨departments: Undergraduate Academic Affairs and the College of Education. Through this program, mentors work in classrooms serving students in high schools with higher than average free and reduced lunch populations. Mentors use what they have learned during their EDUC 260 and/or EDUC 360 classes and personal experience to assist students through the college application process. Evergreen also hosts 91̽»¨College and Career Readiness Assistant (CCRA) Interns. These are 91̽»¨undergraduates who work with students in middle and high schools for 12 hours a week to support any school and/or district identified college and career readiness needs.

Learn more about theÌý 91̽»¨Dream Project and visit the 91̽»¨Dream Project website. President Cauce’s visit also appears on the Highline Public Schools website .

“The 91̽»¨ Livable City Year program has selected the City of Bellevue to be the community partner for the 2018-2019 academic year. Staff and representatives from the 91̽»¨ will present information about the city’s participation in the program during tonight’s City Council Study Session.

The year-long partnership connects city staff with students and faculty who will collaborate on projects to advance the Bellevue City Council Vision Priorities, specifically around livability and sustainability.”

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Seattle’s crisis in unsheltered homelessness is evident most days in the University District as too many young people find themselves without shelter, jobs and other support. Thanks to Washington State House Speaker Frank Chopp, committed community partners, passionate students and innovative faculty, 91̽»¨launched a new effort this past Sunday to get more homeless young people connected to services. Called the Doorway Project, the effort looks to make services accessible for homeless young people who for whatever reason aren’t connected to shelter, food, medical care and case management. The idea is to create pop-up events over the course of this academic year, learn what works and possibly launch a homeless services navigation center in the U District grounded in lessons from the Doorway Project.

The first pop-up event this past Sunday attracted dozens of homeless young people for food, free winter clothing and mapping of the U District from their eyes. In this context, mapping means identifying where they see help and where they see threats. Over the course of four hours, 67 vouchers for free food were used. You can read more about the project .