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Internet Resources
- ActKnowledge
ActKnowledge is an action research organization dedicated to working with community organizations, not-for-profits, foundations and governmental agencies to transform traditional institutions and environments for social change. We work with these organizations as partners in a process aimed at creating transformative knowledge through the interplay of learning and action.
www.actknowledge.org
- Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives
The Roundtable was established in 1992 as a forum for people who are engaged in the field of comprehensive community initiatives. Roundtable participants from foundations, program agencies, technical assistance providers, evaluators and public sector officials meet to discuss the lessons from initiatives across the country and to work on the common problems that they face.
www.aspenroundtable.org
- California Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center
Safestate is a crime and violence prevention tool to create a safer California. It is based on the premise that crime and violence are not inevitable. We also work to incorporate proven prevention principles to make violence prevention efforts in California coherent and effective.
www.safestate.org
- California Coalition for Youth
CCY is an active membership agency dedicated to promoting effective youth-adult partnerships to impact California public policy. We put the "youth" in youth development.
www.ccyfc.org
- California Department of Mental Health
The California Department of Mental Health, entrusted with leadership of the California mental health system, ensures through partnerships the availability and accessibility of effective, efficient, culturally competent care. This is accomplished by advocacy, education, innovation, outreach, understanding, oversight, monitoring improvement, and the provision of direct services.
www.dmh.cahwnet.gov
- California Friday Night Live Partnership
The California Friday Night Live Partnership provides the leadership and field support needed for continued growth and enhancement of FNL/CL/FNL Kids and FNL Mentoring. In March of 1996, the California Friday Night Live Partnership (CFNLP) was formed in response to the Friday Night Live systems need to provide guidance and leadership to the 54 Friday Night Live Partnership counties and to build alliances in support of youth development. The CFNLP office and staff are housed in the Tulare County Office of Education (TCOE) located in Visalia, California. Tulare County Superintendent of Schools Jim Vidak is a committed partner of the organization. Led by Administrator Dr. Jim Kooler, the Partnership is committed to the belief that a youth development framework, which is inclusive, comprehensive, youth-driven, and founded on current research, will improve the lives of young people and the communities in which they live.
www.fridaynightlive.org
- California Research Bureau
The California Research Bureau (CRB), within the California State Library, provides non-partisan, confidential research to the Governor's Office, members of both houses of the Legislature, and other state constitutional officers. The Bureau provides these clients with research, policy assistance through written reports, documents, consultations, seminars, and other training and assistance in preparing legislative proposals.
www.library.ca.gov
- California Safe and Healthy Kids Program Office
The mission of the Safe and Healthy Kids Program Office of the California Department of Education is to provide leadership to keep youth free of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; prevent violence; and foster positive youth development.
www.cde.ca.gov
- California Service Corps
The goals of the California Service Corps are to: invigorate California's strong ethic of civic responsibility and rich tradition of community involvement; ensure a serious role for service and volunteerism in meeting California's educational, health and environmental challenges; connect Californians from diverse backgrounds and experiences to find solutions to problems; and nurture the growth and emergence of California's next generation of community and professional leaders.
www.csc.ca.gov
- California Youth Council Institute
The Youth Council Institute was established July 2001 by the California Workforce Investment Board (CalWIB) to assist California's 50 Youth Councils in creating comprehensive local youth serving systems. YCI is supported by the CalWIB and managed by New Ways to Work and its partner the California Workforce Association (CWA).
www.nww.org/yci
- Developing Capable People
Developing Capable People is dedicated to the development of human resources and to responding to the challenges of living, learning and adapting in a constantly changing world.
www.capabilitiesinc.com
- Public/Private Ventures
Public/Private Ventures is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of social policies, programs and community initiatives, especially as they affect youth and young adults. In carrying out this mission, P/PV works with philanthropies, the public and businss sectors, and nonprofit organizations.
www.ppv.org
- Youth in Focus
Youth in Focus is a non-profit consulting and training organization. It supports youth led research, evaluation and planning. Our work is rooted in the belief that youth can effectively partner with adults to address social and organizational challenges, and that these partnerships are crucial to making democratic and sustainable social change.
www.youthinfocus.net
- Youth Leadership Institute
Helping train Friday Night live counties, the Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) is a community based institute, which joins with young people to build communities which respect, honor, and support youth. Recognized as national models of youth-adult partnerships, YLI programs use strategies ranging from community organizing to youth philanthropy, youth in governance, and public policy advocacy. YLI is led by Maureen Sedonaen, President and CEO, and is committed to the success and vitality of young people throughout California and the nation.
www.yli.org
Please direct web site problems or comments to jimk@tcoe.org.
Copyright © 2007, Tulare County Office of Education
Copyright © 2007, Tulare County Office of Education