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"Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Forum"
Co-hosted by Saving California Communities and Yolo County School Boards Association for Monday, May 14, 7 p.m. at Yolo County Office of Education in Woodland. Free and open to the public.
Will the Sacramento Capital Region prosper, thrive and ultimately grow into its full potential in the coming years?
"To answer this question, we have to look carefully at the well-being of young people who now inhabit the Capital region’s nine counties. As go today's young people – tomorrow's workers, parents, neighbors and leaders – so goes the region," says Jonathan London, lead researcher of the Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions, a two-year, multi-method study commissioned by Sierra Health Foundation with additional funding from The California Endowment and conducted by the UC Davis Center for Regional Change.
On May 14, the Yolo County School Boards Association and Saving California Communities will jointly host Jonathan London and Mindy Romero, HY/HR researcher and coordinator of study outreach, presenting the study’s results. These focus on education, physical and mental health, employment, civic engagement and the built environment. A panel of students from Yolo County high schools, Sacramento City College and the University of California, Davis will offer their personal perspective on youth assets and challenges in the region.
"Our youth must be supported by peer and adult systems that challenge them to make the most of their talents, foster their aspirations and develop their capacity to assume ever-greater responsibility for direction of their own lives and the strength of the community," said Julie Blacklock, president of the Yolo County School Boards Association.
"This forum will provide the facts and context that allow us to design policies to better support the success of our youth," said Don Saylor, Yolo County Supervisor and co-founder of Saving California Communities.
| WHO: | Yolo County School Boards Association and Saving California Communities |
| WHAT: | Jonathan London and Mindy Romero of the UC Davis Center for Regional Change and students from Yolo County high schools, Sacramento City College and the University of California, Davis present "Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions: Informing Action for the Nine County Capitol Region and Its Youth" |
| WHEN: | Monday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. |
| WHERE: | Yolo County Office of Education, 1280 Santa Anita Court, Woodland |
ABOUT YOLO COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
The Yolo County School Boards Association works to increase public awareness of educational efforts in the county and provides school boards with professional development and networking opportunities. Member districts include Davis Joint Unified School District, Esparto Unified School District, Los Rios Community College District, Washington Unified School District, Winters Unified School District, Woodland Joint Unified School District, Yuba Community College District, and the Yolo County Board and Office of Education.
ABOUT SAVING CALIFORNIA COMMUNITIES
A group of Yolo community members joined forces as Saving California Communities to advocate for governance reform. This group brings together county, city and school elected representatives, educators, parents, students, health professionals, university and community college representatives, senior citizens, government employees and business owners. SavingCA.org.
Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions link: http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/projects/healthy-youth-healthy-regions