California’s Golden Opportunity: Promoting Child & Community Wellness Through Cross-Sector Expanded Learning Partnerships

Overview

California’s Golden Opportunity: Promoting Child & Community Wellness Through Cross-Sector Expanded Learning Partnerships
September 16, 2022, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

YOR Convening Invitation

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. 

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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