The need for cybersecurity workers is clear. With a documented current shortage of cybersecurity workers in the U.S. identified as over 300,000 openings, the need to attract, and retain more future cybersecurity workers could not be more clear. Many efforts have been created to address this need and have had clear positive results. These include the use of summer camps and competitions to increase interest in the field, reaching out to underrepresented populations to help fill the need, and providing scholarships and using shared curriculum to help students through their educational pathway. Davenport University, through the implementation of an NSF CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant, has implemented a systems based approach to identify and align these previous efforts that address the cybersecurity pathway. Through the development of a Community Based Life Cycle (CBLC) framework, this approach is centered around mentoring (using both professional mentoring and peer-mentoring) and the use of Cascade Advising, with the intention to both increase students in the cybersecurity pathway, but also to help retain students’ interest in cybersecurity. This presentation will report on our findings after four years of implementation.