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Child and Adolescent Development Program CAD began accepting students in the fall of 1998 and today is the fastest growing degree program on the SFSU campus. As of Fall 2002, more than 322 SFSU students have declared CAD as their major. Outreach efforts to City College of San Francisco through the Early Childhood Training Consortium and to Cañada College through the Pathways Project (http://www.sfsu.edu/~apd/canada.htm bring CAD courses directly to community college campuses drawing additional students into the program. CAD courses are taught by faculty from seven different SFSU colleges. Concentrations are offered in the areas of Young Child and Family; School Age Child and Family; Youth and Family; and Research and Public Policy. For more information, go to http://cad.sfsu.edu. |
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University Center at Cañada College The San Francisco State University/Cañada College Partnership was established in 2001 as a new model to provide four-year college degree programs, workplace certifications and graduate-level programs that are accessible and convenient for area residents. To administer this partnership, a University Center was established on the Cañada College campus, which is located in Redwood City. The SFSU/Cañada College Partnership enables more students to receive an affordable college education and remain close to their community, eliminating the barriers that discourage many from pursuing an education. Programs offered through the Partnership improve access to four-year and graduate programs for all Peninsula and south bay residents. CAD is one of four SFSU departments that are currently programs at Cañada College. For details, please visit Child and Adolescent Development |
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Head Start The San Francisco Head Start Program offers free comprehensive child development services for San Francisco’s low income, foster families and recipients of supplemental income. Families with children three to five years of age are encouraged to apply. Services are offered to meet the individual needs of children with disabilities. Head Start helps children develop to their maximum potential. |
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College of Marin/SFSU Partnership The College of Marin and San Francisco State University are pleased to announce a new partnership that is being created to meet the needs of the Bay Area community in unique and innovative ways. |
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Jumpstart San Francisco Jumpstart SF is an affiliate of the national non-profit organization created to "engage young people in service towards the day that all children in America enter school prepared to succeed". From its inception in 1993, Jumpstart has fostered literacy and social skills development in young children by placing college students in preschools to provide additional support to preschool programs. The Jumpstart program recruits, trains and pairs Federal Work-Study supported San Francisco State University students with preschool children struggling in early learning programs. Throughout the school year and a special summer program, college students help preschool children develop the skills needed to be successful in school. At SFSU --- which became Jumpstart's first university affiliate in the fall of 1997 --- more than 50 college students are working on building the literacy and learning skills of three-to-five-year-olds in five neighborhoods in San Francisco: Bayview-Hunter's Point, the Mission, the Marina, the Richmond District and the South of Market area. Jumpstart students work with children and their families over one school year (with an option of a summer session) to ready the youngsters for school. These college students, many of whom plan to go into teaching, receive an educational award of $2,400 through AmeriCorps. The awards can be used to repay educational loans or future tuition expenses. For more information go to http://jumpstart-sf.sfsu.edu. |
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Cultivating Emotional Balance in the Classroom
Dr. Patricia
Jennings
paj@sfsu.edu
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SFSU CAD Adjunct Professor Dr. Patricia Jennings and Director of the Garrison Institute’s Initiative on Contemplation and Education is the Principal Investigator of the Cultivating Emotional Balance in the Classroom (CEBC), a research project funded by the Fetzer Institute and the Garrison Institute. The purpose of the CEBC project is to determine if the Cultivating Emotional Balance training can have a beneficial effect on teachers, their classrooms, and their pupils. Dr. Jennings is applying her work to improve teachers’ social and emotional competence and classroom climate in association with our existing programs such as Head Start. The Garrison Institute was founded in 2002 to explore and demonstrate the transformative power of contemplation to create a more compassionate and resilient world. Its initiatives are based on the view that positive transformation occurs through conscious training of the mind, which enables a shift essential for the authentic social change necessary to heal the pervasive trauma in our society and environment. The Initiative on Contemplation and Education at the Garrison Institute promotes the research and implementation of interventions that employ contemplation to promote awareness and concentration in the American public school setting. Contemplation — the practice of reflecting deeply — is a powerful means of tapping hidden resources of wisdom, morality, caring, altruism and courage. For teachers, these resources can provide the inner strength to be powerfully present and emotionally responsive. As a result, teachers become effective guides and influential models of healthy social and emotional behavior. For students, awareness and concentration promote self-regulation of attention, emotion, and behavior which is the prerequisite for healthy social and emotional behavior. The Cultivating Emotional Balance in the Classroom (CEBC) project is a controlled, randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of the Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) training in improving teachers’ well-being and, as a result, the classroom climate. |
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Global Learning Center In partnership with WiRED International (http://www.wiredinternational.org), the Global Learning Center provides, through computers and Internet access, information and communication resources that benefit disadvantaged people around the world. The program provides information technology to people who are left behind. It delivers computers and Internet technology, but hardware is only the means to an end. The goal is to arm people with information to solve local problems, to educate children, to improve the quality of life and to end isolation. The program sets up Community Information Centers. The people run these Centers for themselves but not by themselves. The program provides instruction and training, guidance and advice, contacts and support. In there for the long-haul, the program links people across borders and unites people of different ethnicities within a country. The Community Information Centers assist professionals and citizens-old and young. The Centers support programs in health care, economic development, human rights, social change and democracy building. The program's Community Information Centers operate throughout the Balkans, and they are rolling-out in Africa and Central America. Community focus is determined by the local people with help from the program's advisors. In the Balkans, the Centers concentrate on democracy building and ethnic cooperation, in Africa the Centers focus on health care, in Central America on health, education and economic development. |
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Project SHINE and SAIL Project SHINE -- Students helping in the Naturalization of Elders -- is a national community service learning effort with sister sites in several other major cities. Students in the program help prepare older learners for their citizenship exam, or assist them in developing English literacy. Each year. Approximately 200 SFSU and CCSF students from across the disciplines, providing approximately 4,000 hours of "coaching" for elders learning literacy and preparing for naturalization. These student coaches receive credit through community-service learning "project options" in their academic classes. Project SAIL -- Students Assisting with Immigrant Literacies -- is an extension of SHINE, in which SFSU and CCSF students are placed in ESL/literacy classes or in family literacy classes in other community settings. The emphasis in SAIL is on implementing a model called "Learners Lives as Curriculum" in which they assist teachers in collecting learner stores for development into language and literacy lessons. The current focus for SAIL is on the "First Amendment Project." To learn more, contact Dr. Gail Weinstein at gailw@sfsu.edu or visit www.gailweinstein.net |
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Valencia Health Clinic A collaborative project of SFSU School of Nursing, UCSF School of Nursing, San Francisco General Hospital and San Francisco head Start, Valencia Health Services is an education-based interdisciplinary nurse-managed clinic operating in San Francisco's Mission District. It provides internship experiences for nursing students and others in the health professions, shares best practices with health professionals in the community, and fosters understanding of health issues faced at-risk populations. The clinic serves the people of the Mission District, providing healthcare (to children and teens) and mental health services. For more information, contact Dr. Charlotte Ferretti at ferretti@sfsu.edu. |
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Diversifying Leadership in Nursing The goal of the Diversifying Leadership in Nursing program is to identify and support underrepresented students in San Francisco State's MSN program who are interested in continuing on to earn a PhD. The program encourages students to explore various aspects of health inequities, and matches students with clinical nurse researchers in a variety of fields throughout the Bay Area. Working with their preceptors, students have the opportunity to learn research methods and to see first-hand how research findings are applied in clinical settings to improve health. To help students become competitive candidates for doctoral programs, the grant provides support in the form of stipends for summer research programs, as well as preparation for the Graduate Records Examination, and orientation programs in collaboration with faculty from UCSF's School of Nursing. Students also receive support to encourage their participation in professional development activities, such as subscribing to nursing journals in their field of interest, joining professional nursing organizations, and travel to attend conferences related to their field. By developing professional leaders from underrepresented and underserved communities, the program ultimately hopes to rectify existing health inequities and improve the quality of care, as well as promoting greater participation in health screening, education, and prevention activities within communities. The program recruits interested and qualified students from San Francisco State's MSN program each year in the late spring/early summer just before the students enter their last BSN clinical (N-557). For more information, contact Program Coordinator Hilary Pritchard at hpritch@sfsu.edu. |
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Partners in Quality Childcare
The Gateway to Quality Project in involves a collaboration between the Department of Human Services, Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, City College San Francisco, Children’s Council, First Five Commission, the Miriam and Peter Haas Fund, and the child care providers in San Francisco with the goal of improving the quality of childcare in the City. San Francisco State University, Marian Wright Edelman Institute houses the assessment and technical assistance effort for the project, which involves a group of Assessors trained to reliability on the Harms Environmental Scales, who evaluate child care sites and family child care homes, under the supervision of a Coordinator. City College has provided classes in several languages to child care providers to prepare them for assessment, and Children’s Council through Bright Beginnings has developed and delivered technical assistance through workshops focused on needs identified in the assessment process. |
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Children’s Campus at SF State Contact
Children's Campus at SF State
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Children’s Campus, serving the families of SF State faculty and staff on a full-day, year-round basis, is scheduled to open in January 2009 and will support positive child development through quality care and education for infants, toddlers and preschool children. Located on the former site of the Lakeview Center, Children's Campus will also provide opportunities for student internships in a variety of disciplines such as teaching, nursing, child development, psychology, and social work. Faculty and student research will be encouraged to improve best practices in early care and education, and the facility will serve as a site for observation to augment classroom instruction. Children's Campus will be designed and staffed with highly qualified professionals to meet state and federal licensing and accreditation requirements and will implement an advisory board of participating parents and faculty.
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