Programs & Services
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.
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.
Healthy Start Field Office
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 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.
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 (SAYS)
SAYS supports the improvement of underperforming schools with student literacy development and teacher professional development through university school partnerships. To accomplish this, SAYS creates platforms for youth voice, student engagement, and teacher professional development both within and beyond the walls of school. We use spoken word performance poetry to bring literacy to life for this generation.
ArtsBridge
The UC Davis ArtsBridge program is a unique school university partnership in arts education, providing high-quality arts instruction to students in K-12 classrooms. ArtsBridge offers scholarships to highly qualified UC Davis arts majors to provide K-12 classroom instruction in art, dance, drama, music and the digital arts.
Research on Pathways for Incarcerated Youth
A new project underway in CRESS involves researching and analyzing pathways back to healthy development, education, and achievement for incarcerated youth. Contact: Dr. Vajra Watson (EdD), Director of Research and Policy for Equity (vmwatson@ucdavis.edu). ccsp.ucdavis.edu
Services
CCSP has over twelve years of experience in providing consultation and technical assistance for local, regional, and statewide groups. Our training workshops and materials are based on extensive field research and examination of the working practices in communities throughout California.
CCSP provides direct technical assistance and training in the areas common to the community-school model; academic enrichment, collaborative leadership and governance, youth development, school-based health care, parent leadership development, field-research, and program evaluation.
Consultation, Technical Assistance and Training
Field Research and Program Evaluation
Clearinghouse and Downloadable Documents
CCSP provides a variety of services for:
- School-Community Collaboratives
- California's Healthy Start
- After School Programs
- Community-based organizations
- Proposition 10 Commissions
- Foundation Grantees
- School Districts
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers
- National and International efforts on community-school partnerships