A newly emerging partnership between Vallejo City Unified School
District (VCUSD) and Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS),
represented by a cohort of youth and adults with support from the
Sierra Health Foundation, attended the July 22 – 25, 2012
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) National Conference in Cincinnati,
Ohio.This newly emerging partnership attended the conference in
hopes to gain cutting edge knowledge, resources, and connections
to networks to further the social justice community school
efforts currently being implemented by both partners.
The Power of Discovery:
STEM2 is a project of the California After School
Network and the California STEM Learning Network. Funding is
provided by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation; the Noyce
Foundation; and the Samueli Foundation.
The 2013 Childhood
Obesity Conference is scheduled for June 18-20, at the Long
Beach Convention Center, California.Now in its 7th year, the
biennial Conference is the nation’s largest, most influential
collaboration of professionals dedicated to combating pediatric
obesity. Nearly 2,000 attendees from across the country are
expected to attend in 2013.The Conference will showcase the
latest research, evidence-based best practices, and
policy/environmental change strategies.
For many schools and youth serving organizations, the summer time
present unique challenges. Far too often, programs and
providers find themselves isolated with few resources, little
support, and limited connection to others who share their
concerns of how to best address the challenges of summer learning
loss and the prevalent needs of at-risk youth. As a
response to this need, the UC Davis Center for Community
School Partnerships (CCSP), Sierra Health Foundation, Packard
Foundation, and a host of committed community partners have co
The South Sacramento Youth Block Reports Ethnographies Project is
a youth voice and culture research project aimed at learning and
understanding the cultural phenomena connecting youth who live in
the South Sacramento area. The UC Davis School of Education,
Center for Community School Partnerships (CCSP), conducted the
ethnography research.
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:
CCSP was recently awarded a Walmart grant through the National
Summer Learning Association (NSLA) to work in partnership with
Sacramento Regional stakeholders as part of the Smarter Summers
Community Representatives. This new partnership will
support efforts to transform the Sacramento Region by increasing
the number of high quality summer learning opportunities.
Key focus areas of the work include:
The Sacramento City Unified School District’s six-week Summer of
Service program focuses on supporting at-risk students during the
critical transitional summer between elementary to middle and
middle to high school by orienting them to the new environment
and increasing their feelings of school
connectedness. As a lead partner, UC Davis Center for
Community School Partnerships, provides technical assistance,
documentation, and evaluation research for the SCUSD Summer of
Service program, which incoming 7th and 9th grade students are
given an opportunity to participate in meaningful social justice
service-learning activities that address the needs in their
community.
The California Afterschool Network is a broad coalition of
stakeholders helping to chart the course for California’s
after-school programs. The Network is located at UC Davis School
of Education in the Center for Community School Partnerships
(CCSP) which serves as the fiscal agent and convener for the
network. To learn more about the California Afterschool Network
visit their web
site.
UC Davis Center for Community School Partnerships, in
collaboration with Access Sacramento (Cable TV), Sacramento City
Unified School District, and a host of community partners seeks
to recognize the regional work of youth-generated social media
projects that have been created and produced for social
change.
The key goals of the Youth Media Forum for Social Change are to:
Sierra Health Foundation’s newest grant program, REACH: Connecting Communities
and Youth for a Healthy Future, focuses on that critical time
in a young person’s life — primarily age 10 to 15 — when youth
begin experiencing growing independence, and when decisions can
have a profound effect on healthy development and successful
progression to adulthood.
The Healthy Start Field Office (HSFO) was created to provide
training and technical assistance services to the more than 1,000
public schools in California receiving SB-620 Healthy Start
planning or operational grants from the California Department of Education
(CDE).
These grants were established in 1991 by SB-620 and have been
awarded annually to establish school-linked learning supports for
children, families, and communities. Over 850 grants had been
awarded in all 58 counties of California.
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.
