Healthy Start Field Office

The Healthy Start Field Office (HSFO) was created to provide training and technical assistance services to the more than 1,000 public schools in California receiving Healthy Start planning or operational grants from the California Department of Education (CDE).

These grants were established in 1991 by SB-620, the Healthy Start Support Services for Children Act, and are awarded to establish school-linked learning supports for children, families, and communities. Over 800 grants have been awarded in all 58 counties of California.

We are the Center for Community School Partnerships (CCSP) located in the School of Education at UC Davis. Our office at Davis is about 15 miles from Sacramento and allows for a very close working relationship with staff at CDE, as well as key staff in other state departments that are involved with integrated services. Our location at the University also gives us access to the resources of UC Davis' School of Education and other campus departments and projects.

Our office is the state field office for capacity building with Healthy Start sites. Some of our activities include:

• Providing individual consultation and trouble-shooting with sites.
• Identifying, developing, and disseminating user-friendly resource materials that can help with practical problem-solving in areas such as collaborative governance, confidentiality, case management, automated information systems, community assessment, results orientation, and others.
• Promoting regional and statewide networking, mutual support, and information exchange among Healthy Start participants at a variety of levels.
• Sponsoring and conducting regional workshops and training on selected topics and concepts in comprehensive school-linked services.
• Publishing a newsletter of pertinent information, articles, stories and upcoming events in the field of comprehensive, integrated, school-linked services.
• Posting a weekly electronic Listserver delivering legislative, family, community and school-linked service news directly to your e-mail address.
• Managing a Healthy Start Clearinghouse of resource items (available at cost and/or sometimes free) to the public.

Healthy Start Field Office
UC Davis, CRESS Center (map)
Davis, CA, 95616
(530) 752-6090