California’s Golden Opportunity: Promoting Child & Community Wellness Through Cross-Sector Expanded Learning Partnerships
California’s Golden Opportunity: Promoting Child & Community Wellness Through Cross-Sector Expanded Learning Partnerships
September 16, 2022, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
The California AfterSchool Network (CAN) successfully convened CA practitioners and educators in California’s Golden Opportunity: Promoting Child & Community Wellness Through Cross-Sector Expanded Learning Partnerships event. This culminating virtual event of the Whole Child Health & Wellness Community of Practice, is funded by Youth Opioid Response (YOR) California.
The purpose of the virtual event was to create awareness about California’s Golden Opportunity for multi-sector partnerships with California’s Expanded Learning Programs that promote health, and mental health, and increase access to substance use intervention and treatment for children, youth, and families.
Participants from a variety of child, youth, and family service agencies had the opportunity to learn from efforts to create multi-sector Expanded Learning partnerships with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove, in Orange County, and ProYouth, in Tulare County. The event surfaced the promising practices, challenges, barriers, and next steps to promote whole child health and wellness in partnership with California’s Expanded Learning programs.
CA’s Golden Opportunity Post-Convening Update & Materials
Thank you to all of our
attendees, presenters, guest speakers, and planning team! We
hope our attendees left understanding CA’s Golden Opportunity and
the next steps in Promoting Child & Community Wellness Through
Cross-Sector Expanded Learning Partnerships!
And if you weren’t able to make it – no problem! You can still access the materials!
Event Details
Schedule*
Welcome, Community Building & Agenda Review
Exploring CA’s Golden Opportunity
Panel: Moving Differently - Integrating California’s Diverse Resources to Support Whole Children and Families
Break
Our Whole Child Health & Wellness Journey & Partnership with the CA Youth Opioid Response Initiative
A Look Ahead: Supporting Local Communities with Whole Child Health & Wellness
Next Steps & Closing
Panelists & Guest Speakers
Our Executive Director, Jeff Davis moderated a fantastic panel focusing on Integrating California’s Diverse Resources to Support Whole Children and Families. We are deeply appreciative of our panelists who engaged in meaningful discussion and provided a series of mini-presentations with rich content and resources to support educators of all sectors in supporting children, youth, and families with conditions to thrive.
Panelists included:
- Lupita C. Alcalá, Director, Education Policy and Outcomes, WestEd
- Hayin Kimner, Managing Director, Community Schools Learning Exchange (CSLX )
- Veronica Johnson, MPH, Program Coordinator, PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact
- Sarah Neville-Morgan, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education
Guest Speaker:
- Michael Funk, Director, Expanded Learning Division, California Department of Education
Resources
- Whole Child Health & Wellness Call to Action - Brief
- Learn more about our Whole Child Health & Wellness Community of Practice
