UC Davis multicultural poetry slam an outlet for cries and
whispers
Fong Tran, program coordinator in the School’s CRESS Center, is
featured in a story about his poetry and how he uses it to
encourage youth to celebrate their cultures and to honor his
Vietnamese mother’s heroic efforts to raise him and his siblings
under difficult circumstances.
Read the story here.
CRESS and CCSP Centers partnered up with California Department of
Public Health and the Network for Healthy California to empower
school youth to make healthy choices about food and exercise. The
center has assembled five taskforce teams, which will assess
initiatives and programs already in place under the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed), formerly
California Fresh, or Food Stamps program.
Key focus areas of the work include:
Associate Director Renee Newton has taken over the reins of CRESS as interim director with CRESS Director Mary Vixie Sandy transitioning to Executive Director of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) on November 1. Newton joined the CRESS Center in 2001 as the director of a statewide health access program administered through the Healthy Start Field Office. In 2005, Renee became the director of the Center for Community School Partnerships (CCSP) where she leads a multidisciplinary team in support of school and community partnerships. In this role, she launched the California Afterschool Network, providing oversight for designing a governance structure, developing an initial strategic plan, and recruiting staff that has led to extending the Network’s presence in the policy arena and field of practice.
The California Afterschool Network (the Network) was recently
awarded a (S3) grant to leverage its statewide after school
infrastructure, as well as innovative program designs that are
emerging across the state and country, to make a policy impact on
creating new or enhancing existing funding streams that may be
used for summer learning and enrichment programming. The goals of
the S3 Summer Learning Project are to:
Request for Applications
21st Century Community Learning Centers-Elementary and Middle Schools
California’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Program provides funding to create incentives for establishing before-and after-school enrichment programs that partner schools and communities to provide academic and literacy support and safe, constructive alternatives for youth. Each program must consist of three elements: academic assistance, educational enrichment, and family literacy services. Programs must operate during every regular school day and may operate during summer, intersession, or vacation days. To read the full announcement, please click here.
Funding Opportunity
Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge
A critical focus of the Obama Administration is supporting the youngest learners in the United States and helping ensure that children, especially young children with high needs, such as those who are low-income, English Learners, and children with disabilities or developmental delays, enter Kindergarten ready to succeed in school and in life. To address this school readiness gap, the Administration has identified, as high priorities, strengthening the quality of early learning and development programs and increasing access to high quality early learning programs for all children, including those with high needs. This commitment to early education is reflected in the RTT–ELC competition that announced by the Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services, titled: Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge, funding opportunity number – ED-GRANTS-082611-001.
Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge Funding Opportunity
A critical focus of the Obama Administration is supporting the youngest learners in the United States and helping ensure that children, especially young children with high needs, such as those who are low-income, English Learners, and children with disabilities or developmental delays, enter Kindergarten ready to succeed in school and in life.
The California Afterschool Network, housed in the School’s CRESS
Center, is launching a new initiative: “Advancing California’s
Capacity to Leverage Out of School Time Systems to Deliver
High-Impact STEM Programming.” With support from the Bechtel
Foundation and the Noyce Foundation, the initiative will lay the
groundwork to create and implement a robust statewide system that
can deliver high-quality STEM experiences during out-of-school
time to more than one million students in California and support
the 40,000 out-of-school-time professionals who serve them.
