Healthy Start Field Office

Healthy Start is a major education reform in California in which schools, families, neighborhoods, and public and private agencies and businesses work together to meet student and family needs.

The Healthy Start Support Services for Children and Families Act, established in 1991, is administered by the Learning Support and Partnerships Division of the California Department of Education. Healthy Start awards planning and operational grants to school districts and county offices of education and their local collaborative partners who develop an integrated plan to offer comprehensive support to the children attending a particular school or schools and their family members.

New! Policy Brief Supporting Community-School Partnerships

Partnering With Communities to Promote Student Success: A Review of the Research - Policy Brief

Authors:

• Nancy Erbstein, PhD, University of California Davis School of Education, CRESS/Center for Community School Partnerships
• Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

In “Closing the Achievement Gap: Report of Superintendent Jack O’Connell’s California P-16 Council,” fostering partnerships is recommended as a strategy to close the achievement gap. School- community partnerships are common in schools that are closing the achievement gap. Such partnerships engage families, other community members, community leaders, and a wide variety of local businesses, agencies, institutions, and non- profit organizations… click here to read more

Special Note:
This paper is one among a series of ten papers and policy briefs prepared through collaboration between the California Department of Education and the University of California organized by the UC Davis School of Education Center for Applied Policy in Education. These papers and the respective authors presented on April 18, 2008 at a UC Davis School of Education CAP-Ed Symposium. View the other papers at http://cap-ed.ucdavis.edu/node/25

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Healthy Start Clearinghouse
For over 15 years, the Healthy Start Clearinghouse has been a resource for supportive program information and Healthy Start materials. The HSFO continues to provide this service to grantees past and current. We have been improving and updating materials to add to Healthy Start on-line materials.

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Healthy Start Field Office
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8729