Elevate CA: California’s near completers deserve new, innovative higher education pathways
Three ways to help close the state's growing degree gaps and improve upward mobility Read More
Categories: Elevate CA, Education
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Can California’s Techies Move the Needle on Mental Health?
How California's innovation economy can have a positive impact on public services Read More
Categories: Community Services, Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, Innovate for Impact: Improving Access to High Quality Mental Health Care, Mental Health, Partnership for Community Excellence
County and Tech Innovators Are Rethinking California’s Mental Health Services
The state's diverse 58 counties could benefit from a high-tech hub for mental health solutions Read More
Categories: Community Services, Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, Innovate for Impact: Improving Access to High Quality Mental Health Care, Mental Health
Tech Industry and Mental Health Advocates Seek Solutions at First-Ever Summit
Diverse crowd comes together to brainstorm atypical solutions to serve Californians with mental health needs Read More
Categories: Community Services, Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, Innovate for Impact: Improving Access to High Quality Mental Health Care
Mental health services are cutting criminal justice detention rates and homelessness in L.A. County
Study shows adults and transition-age youth enrolled as county mental health clients were detained fewer times Read More
Categories: Community Services, Community Corrections, Crime
How removing barriers to higher education can help prevent a life of incarceration
Report provides roadmap for using education support for incarcerated Californians to cut recidivism Read More
Categories: Community Services, Community Corrections, Crime, Education
CA Fwd report highlights ideas for getting more housing out of last year’s housing package
Implementation efforts, the best chance this year to make a dent in the housing crisis, reach critical juncture Read More
Categories: California Economic Summit
An opportunity to better combat poverty in California shouldn’t be hurried
CA Fwd weighs in on approaching deadline to improve Opportunity Zones in California Read More
Categories: Elevate CA
College students help lead San Bernardino County inmates toward rehabilitation
Interns teach in-jail parenting and trauma classes and build their skills serving others Read More
Categories: Community Services, Community Corrections, Justice System Change Initiative
Linking classroom and career creates upward mobility & a better workforce
Elevate CA: Four ways California can build more grads ready for college and a career Read More
Categories: California Economic Summit, Elevate CA
Economic Summit launches new Roadmap to Shared Prosperity updated for 2018
New initiatives and continuing progress are featured in new strategy guide to fight California's poverty problem Read More
Chancellor: California “working learners” to benefit from online Community College
College leader on proposal to open up access to higher education to more working Californians Read More
Categories: California Economic Summit, Education
Sheriff’s Department team offers fresh S.T.A.R.T. for repeat offenders in San Bernardino County
Inmates connected with services before reentry to improve chances of staying out of jail Read More
Categories: Community Services, Community Corrections, Justice System Change Initiative, Realignment, Crime
New nonpartisan coalition aims to fix what hyper-partisan politics has broken
Group aims to support state and local election reforms that make elections more competitive Read More
Categories: Democracy, Elections, Redistricting, Top Two Primary, Elections
WATCH: Economic Summit aims to make California more resilient
2018 will see renewed focus on lifting up more more Californians including those hit by disasters & economic dislocation Read More
Categories: California Economic Summit
Success in transforming county criminal justice continues into 2018 for CA Fwd
California counties approved CA Fwd recommendations in 2017 and made headway in anti-recidivism work Read More
Categories: Community Services, Community Corrections, Justice System Change Initiative, Realignment, Crime
Report: California schools can benefit from a more collaborative LCFF approach
Collective learning among school districts points the way to deliver on school reform promise Read More
Categories: Community Services, School Governance, Local Control Funding Formula, Education
VIDEO: Candidates for governor share ideas to revive the deferred CA Dream
Top candidates talk role of higher education and workforce training in combating poverty Read More
Categories: California Economic Summit, Elevate CA, Education
New California mental health roadmap recommends alternate routes away from incarceration
Commission report calls for maximizing diversion away from criminal justice system for people in mental health crisis Read More
Categories: Community Services, Community Corrections, Justice System Change Initiative, Crime
Riverside County finds success, earns praise in justice system change effort
State's influential CSAC organization hears about county's data-driven work to lower jail populations Read More
Categories: Community Services, Community Corrections, Justice System Change Initiative