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.