Programs

Community School Partnerships Clearinghouse
Community School Partnerships Clearinghouse 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 800 grants have been awarded in all 58 counties of California.

We are located in The Center for Cooperative Research and Extension Services for Schools (CRESS Center) in the School of Education at UC Davis. Our office at Davis is about 15 miles from Sacramento and allows for a very close working relationship staff in the Healthy Start Office at CDE, as well as key staff in other state departments that are involved with integrated services. Our staff and the Healthy Start/CDE office work closely together and either office can answer many general questions about Healthy Start. To learn more about Healthy Start Field Office visit their web site.

California Afterschool Network
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.

ASAPconnect
ASAPconnectlinks out-of-school-time programs and assistance providers so you can partner more effectively, expand capabilities and improve program quality.

• Connect to new opportunities. Assistance providers can set up a profile in the
 ASAP Directory to promote your services and connect with thousands of California after school programs. You can share knowledge about promising practices, connect with new partners, plus get professional training and support to advance learning and improve quality of service.
• Connect to expand capabilities. After school program staff can use our ASAP Directory to find relevant, up-to-date information about effective training, mentoring, coaching and consulting. Searches can be custom-tailored to your specific program improvement needs.
• Connect to make informed choices. The ASAP Directory helps everyone in the out-of-school-time field get a clearer picture of available after school assistance resources to make more strategic program, policy and funding decisions.

REACH Youth Program
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.

We believe youth have a better chance of succeeding if they are engaged in positive activities in and out of school. The REACH program focuses on:

• Increasing youth participation in quality programs
• Providing opportunities for youth to develop leadership skills while contributing to their communities
• Helping communities take action to create positive opportunities for youth.

Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (web site)
Youth Speaks programs seek to first and foremost develop young people’s voices and expand what constitutes good youth development. By creating spaces for youth to share their ideas and beliefs in compelling and profound ways, Youth Speaks seeks to realign youth development strategies with the realities of the specific economic, political and social conditions that young people are a part. Furthermore, Youth Speaks programs strive to create practices that encourage youth to connect the personal to the collective dimensions of civic and political life as they work to redefine the very perception of today’s teenagers. With this intention in mind Youth Speaks puts forth the following goals:

• Youth will develop their voices in order to articulate clearly and honestly their desires and demands for positive change in themselves and their communities.
• Youth will engage in dialogue with other youth across the demographic boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
• Youth will think critically and creatively to challenge internalized, interpersonal, and institutional oppression in their schools and communities.
• Youth will develop the leadership, confidence and skills to work towards creating a just environment in their schools and communities.
• Youth will develop and share through public performance the universal, unifying and transcending via the power of the arts.

2009 Childhood Obesity Conference
The Childhood Obesity Conference is the largest gathering of professionals on the topic of pediatric overweight in the nation. The conference attracts over 1,800 particioants representing early childhood education, after school providers, k-12 staff, health care professionals, healthcare policy makers, researchers, media, businesss and civic leaders, parks and recreation personnel, nutrition educators, child care providers and youth organizations. To learn more about the 2009 Childhood Obesity Conference visit their web site.