Newsletters
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Improving Adolescent Mental Health
May 24, 2022
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As we continue to live in the “new normal,” we have become aware of the unprecedented mental health crisis affecting our youth as well as adults. Use this month to learn about mental health and how to fight the stigma to help the ones in your community get the resources they deserve.
This month’s newsletter shares many resources on mental health: how to prioritize one’s mental health, resources for the classroom, and more.
STEAM Newsletter: Inventors, Inventions, and Innovation!
During the month of May, the Million Girls Moonshot and all of its partners celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (AAPI Heritage Month). Our country owes a lot of our success to many hardworking, innovative AAPI computer scientists, engineers, and other STEM professionals!
Help celebrate these amazing contributions by incorporating these resources surrounding invention and innovation into the classroom this month and beyond:
CAN Newsletter – Celebrating AAPI Heritage and Mental Health Awareness Months!
May 12, 2022
Happy Asian American and Pacific
Islanders Month!
Asian American and Pacific Islander folks have contributed significantly to many facets of American culture and society, including science and medicine, literature and art, sports and recreation, government and politics, and activism and law. (Read More)
CAN Health and Wellness Newsletter – Helping Mitigate Substance Misuse
April 26, 2022
Welcome to our Health and Wellness newsletter! This month, we are getting ready to celebrate National Prevention Week starting on May 9th. While this awareness week comes once a year, developing strategies to support the youth in your community should be year-round. In this newsletter, we are sharing multiple resources not only to support the holistic health of the youth in our lives, but also to understand that teachers, administrators, site coordinators, and all other educators that support students should take care of themselves as well.
STEAM Newsletter – Celebrating Earth Day and Math Awareness Month!
April 19, 2022
This month the Million Girls Moonshot and all of its partners celebrate Earth Day, Math Awareness Month and Environmental Education Week! Now is the time for all of us — education, business, and civic leaders — to take action on climate in order to preserve and protect our health, our families, and our livelihoods. To do this, we need to inspire the next generation of creative thinkers and problem solvers to design the solutions that will get us there. This Earth Day, let us act boldly, innovate broadly, and implement equitably.
CAN Newsletter – Spring into Action!
April 13, 2022
It’s the season of new beginnings! Spring is the season during which the natural world revives and reinvigorates after the colder winter months. During spring, plants begin to grow again, new seedlings sprout out of the ground and hibernating animals awake. In education, it’s also the time of year when we Spring into Action and start preparing for the traditional academic school year to end and continue planning for summer learning experiences.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Celebrating National Nutrition Month® & More!
March 22, 2022
This March, we are preparing for the summer and next school year with tons of new resources to implement into programs and classrooms, as well as celebrating National Nutrition Month®!
STEAM Newsletter – Celebrating Women’s History Month
March 15, 2022
March marks the beginning of Women’s History Month. What was originally known as “Women’s History Week” in 1982, has deservedly transformed over the years into an entire month aimed at recognizing and celebrating the contributions of women in our society, throughout history.
CAN Newsletter – Celebrating Women’s History Month!
March 9, 2022
Every year in March, we celebrate women, their achievements, and their tremendous contributions to our society. Women’s History month also includes International Women’s Day which is observed on March 8th across the world. Each year the National Women’s History Alliance chooses a theme for Women’s History Month and this year, the theme for 2022 is “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” Women educators across California, especially in our Expanded Learning and Out of School Time programs, have gone above and beyond to create inclusive enviro
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Celebrating School-Based Health Care Awareness Month!
February 22, 2022
Welcome to the second installment of CAN’s Health and Wellness newsletter of 2022! This February, we are celebrating School-Based Health Center Awareness Month! All children and adolescents deserve to thrive and grow into the young adults we know they can be. But too many struggle because they lack access to health care services. School-based health care is a fantastic solution, bringing health care to where students already spend the majority of their time: in school. When health and education come together, great things happen —and our youth are allowed to heal.
STEAM Newsletter – Introduce a Girl to Engineering!
February 15, 2022
Welcome to this month’s installment of our STEAM Newsletter! This February, we are celebrating Black History Month, Engineer Week – Reimagining the Possible (February 20-26), and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (February 24)!
CAN Newsletter – Celebrating Black History Month
February 8, 2022
Happy February! We hope you all are doing
well and are staying as healthy and safe as you possibly
can. Happy Black History Month!
What is it and why is it important? Below are a few
resources and facts to share and help our community strengthen
our understanding of Black History Month and ways we
might celebrate it this year. We have also added additional
resources throughout this newsletter to support our work.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Starting Off On The Right Foot
January 25, 2022
Welcome to the first installment of CAN’s Health and Wellness newsletter of 2022!
As we continue to share content surrounding the Whole Child Health and Wellness Vision as well as other approaches that prioritize the cumulative wellness of students in our Expanded Learning programs, don’t forget to think about your mental and physical wellbeing and it’s importance to not only yourself, but the youth you are serving.
STEAM Newsletter – Happy New Year!
January 18, 2022
The start of a new year is a perfect opportunity to reflect on past achievements and upcoming goals for the future.
We debuted our STEAM newsletter in February of last year and since then, we have continued to share resources to encourage STEAM learning. This year, we hope we can continue to further the collective goal of providing a million more girls with STEM learning opportunities and transform the communities we live in for a better tomorrow.
CAN Newsletter – Happy New Year!
January 13, 2022
Happy 2022! The California AfterSchool Network team would like to wish each and every one of you a happy and healthy new year!
We are grateful for a new year and new opportunities, and we realize the year has started off quite bumpy with the COVID 19 Omicron variant and its impacts on California communities and across the nation. We are hopeful things will start to settle down and improve enough to allow schools and programs to effectively and appropriately support children, youth, and families in our CA communities.
STEAM Newsletter – Applying Engineering Mindsets through Math and Science
December 21, 2021
December is always a special time
of year. It is a chance to reflect on all of the successes of the
year and explore how we might be able to do more as we head into
the new year.
With this in mind, Million Girls Moonshot is highlighting STEM learning with an engineering mindset this December! Utilizing this mindset allows us to explore the unknown while applying skills and knowledge we already have – like math and science. Activating an engineering mindset pulls directly from these skills and allows us to solve real-work and relevant challenges.
CAN Newsletter – Happy Holidays!
December 8, 2021
Welcome to the close of 2021! Wow, what a challenging, yet incredible year this has been. As we continue to navigate living and surviving a pandemic, EXL and OST practitioners continue to demonstrate how impactful Expanded Learning programs can be in the lives of children and youth.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Promoting COVID-19 Vaccines through School Sites
November 23, 2021
Welcome to another issue of our revamped Health & Wellness Newsletter! In this installment, we continue to share content surrounding the
STEAM Newsletter – STEM is Transforming Communities
November 16, 2021
This November we are exploring how STEM is transforming communities. We hope you started off the month with a blast by celebrating National STEM Day on November 8th!
CAN Newsletter – It Takes a Village
November 10, 2021
Welcome to November and Native
American Heritage Month! Did you know, California has always
been home to the largest number of different Native people and
their cultures? “Many tribal groups speak different
languages, engage in varying traditions, in homelands established
for thousands of years that extend beyond state boundaries,”
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