In collaboration with the California Department of Public Health
(SNAP-Ed) and in sub-contract with the UC Davis School of
Education, Center for Community School Partnerships this RFA
represents an opportunity to enhance the Afterschool Model
Interventions Initiative (AMII) to help achieve the Network for a
Healthy California’s (Network) goal of increasing fruit and
vegetable consumption, physical activity and access to healthy
food in families with children who are eligible for SNAP-Ed in at
least 1,000 qualifying low income venues.
UC Davis Center for Community School Partnerships (CCSP) has
partnered up with The California Department of Public Health and
the Network for Healthy California to support implementation of
comprehensive nutrition programs for school-based, public health,
and community-based youth serving program sites to promote the
2010 Dietary Guidelines, increase fruit and vegetable consumption
and physical activity among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program Education (SNAP-Ed) eligible school age children.
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:
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. It is also a time when, provided with
sufficient skills and support, youth can make decisions to avoid
risky behaviors such as drug and alcohol use.
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.
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:
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.
