Learnings From Past Partnerships
Every partnership brings fresh insight into what works, what needs to shift, and how we can continue to deepen our impact. Here, we honor our former partners by sharing the key learnings and honest takeaways that emerged from our shared work.
Learnings From Past Partnerships
With each partnership, we gain new insight into what works, what needs to shift, and how we can continue to work together to deepen our positive impact on San Francisco's young people.
Here, we honor our former partners by sharing the key learnings and honest takeaways that emerged from our shared work.
Our Former Partnerships
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Seneca Family of Agencies
R2B partnered with Seneca to fund the Unconditional Education (UE) Coach roles at three SFUSD elementary schools.
The UE Coach supports the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of the students - everything from classroom-wide behavior routines and structures, to personalized plans for high-needs students, to infusing healing-centered and trauma-informed practices in all aspects of the school. They do this with the goal of creating safe and joyful environments for all students and the adults who serve them.
The UE Coach role is designed to last 3-5 years, after which the administrators/social workers of the school take on the work of maintaining the systems that have been put in place.
IMPACT
606
Students supported by the leadership of a school-based Unconditional Education Coach
The Primary School
R2B partnered with The Primary School to bring their Bridge to Preschool program to early childhood centers in San Francisco. Through the program, both parents and their 2.5-5 year olds receive social and emotional support and training as they prepare for the beginning of their school journeys.
In the spring and summer of 2021 we supported the pilot of the Bridge to Preschool Program at a Wu Yee community center for families in the Bayview area. In the fall of 2024, we partnered again with The Primary School to expand this program to more cohorts of families in the Bayview.
IMPACT
20% → 70%
Before the program, only 20% of participating parents felt prepared for their child's transition to preschool; after the program, 70% of participating parents felt prepared.
Peer Health Exchange
R2B partnered with Peer Health Exchange (PHE) to support both their in-school health education (mental, sexual, physical, and social) classes for 9th graders and their web-based app called Selfsea.
Through a previous grant supporting PHE's strategic plan, we learned how beneficial the in-school courses were to young peoples’ well-being. Our goal with this additional 3-year grant was to understand the effectiveness of a digital component in a post-pandemic environment.
IMPACT
500,000+
Young people reached on web/mobile version of selfsea since its launch
Millennium School
In September 2020, R2B funded the membership of 150 SFUSD educators in Forum for the 2020-2021 school year.
Forum is an online circle group where 6-8 educators sit in a virtual circle with one another and are led by a trained facilitator through a series of social and emotional sharing and listening exercises. The exercises are centered around a topic in well-being.
The goal was to increase teacher well-being as a way to indirectly influence student well-being.