Pathways to Employment Success

The Pathways to Employment Success program provides youth with opportunities to explore future career options, as well as practice the crucial skills needed to seek employment. We work with students & staff in the local school districts (Riverview School District and Snoqualmie Valley School District) to plan activities and events that are relevant to youth’s employment development. It is our hope that youth will recognize there are many rewarding paths to success.

PROGRAM OFFERINGS

Scholarships

The deadline to apply for our 2025 scholarships has passed. Check back in the spring of 2026! In the meantime, you can learn more about the opportunities we offer annually below.

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Job Skills Institute

This 6-Series Workshop is designed to prepare students with resources, skills, habits, and worksite knowledge needed to increase their confidence and competitive advantage when entering the job market.

Individually Curated Workshops

Thanks to our incredible network of community partners, we are able to channel their ideas and expertise into ultra specialized workshops for students. Based off of the research we do on career advising, mental health, and industry standards as well as the direct feedback from students on the support they specifically need, we merge local youth and professional perspectives to yield community as a path finding resource right here at home. An example of a recent workshop we facilitated in this sense was a workshop that focused on purpose exploration through concepts like Ikigai, vision boarding, and self-efficacy.

Pathways Exploration

Worksite Tours give students the chance to learn what a company does, observe work in progress, and hear from employees in different departments about their educational and professional pathways.

Industry Talks give students insight into the wide variety of goods, services, and career opportunities within a business.

Career Guest Speakers allow students to hear from a range of professionals that can share their individual stories, perspectives, experiences, and answer direct questions

If you or your business are interested in supporting any of these opportunities, contact the Pathways to Employment Success Coordinator below under ‘Program Leadership’!

THANK YOU to our supporters that lend their expertise and insights for free to support the next generation of leaders across Snoqualmie Valley!

PROGRAM LEADERSHIP

Valley Innovation Project

Maddy Horn

Communication and Engagement Coordinator

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UPCOMING FREE EVENTS

Your ideas. Real, local businesses. One epic week. Calling all high school students in the Riverview and Snoqualmie Valley School Districts! You have a chance to win scholarships and awards for solving actual business challenges at organizations across the valley.

Join us March 20-March 27! View full event details here.

Are you a professional in the valley? We also need judges, advisors and volunteers! Please see event details above for more information.

Maddy Horn

Communication and Engagement Coordinator

Maddy joined Empower Youth Network as the Communication Coordinator in October of 2023, and became the Communication and Engagement Coordinator in September of 2024.

The bulk of her Marketing and Communications (MarCom) experience has been in nonprofits and government, on national, state, and local levels—from major cities to small communities. Maddy is thrilled to apply her skills for social media, marketing, graphic and web design, print, media relations, communications, and writing to accomplish the mission at EYN. She is also a lifetime member of the National Communications Association.

In addition to her experience in the MarCom world, Maddy also has vast experience working in the education field, whether she was providing academic advising remotely to students around the world at an ed-tech start-up in Boston or teaching in-person at an after-school program with the Washington Alliance for Better Schools (WABS). She has spent a great deal of her career ensuring that students succeed and feel empowered. In addition to her professional skills, her deeply personal connection to EYN’s work makes her grateful and thrilled to serve in her role.

maddy@empoweryouthnetwork.org