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Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions
Will California's Capital Region prosper, thrive and ultimately grow into its full potential in coming years?
To answer this question, we must look carefully at the well-being of young people who now inhabit the Capital Region’s nine counties. As go today’s young people – tomorrow’s workers, parents, neighbors, and leaders – so goes the region.
Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions is a collaborative partnership between the UC Davis Center for Regional Change, Sierra Health Foundation and The California Endowment documenting the connections between improvements in youth well-being and regional vitality and prosperity in California’s nine-county Capital Region. Researchers from multiple disciplines examined five critical areas that affect youth well-being: education, health, employment, civic engagement and the built environment. The initiative has produced unique information to support the strategic efforts of policy-makers, funders, nonprofit organizations and businesses to improve both youth well-being and regional success.
Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions employed a mixed-method, multi-disciplinary, and multi-scale approach to understanding the inter-dependence of youth and regional health and well-being.
Final Report
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London, Jonathan and Nancy Erbstein, et al. (2011). Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions: Informing Action for the Nine-County Capital Region and its Youth. Davis CA: UC Davis Center for Regional Change
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Download the Synthesis report here.
Download the Executive Summary of the report here.
- Download the PowerPoint presentation here.
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Read the press release here.
Working Papers on Specific Topics
- The HY/HR team developed twelve "working papers" that explore specific topics in much more detail. There are two-page executive summaries and full length reports. The Working Papers approach built on the expertise of each team-member, further promoting cross-team/cross-disciplinary learning, and producing innovative and well-developed analyses at the regional scale.
- London, Jonathan K., David Campbell and Michelle Kuhns. 2010. California’s Capital Region: A Place in Progress. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.
- Download full report here.
Burciaga, Rebecca, and Nancy Erbstein. 2010. Challenging Assumptions, Revealing Community Cultural Wealth: Young Adult Wisdom on Hope in Hardship. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.- Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
Benner, Chris, Gloria M. Rodriguez, Bidita Tithi, & Cassie Hartzog. 2010. Cost of Dropouts in the Capital Region. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis. - Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
Breslau, Joshua, Gloria M. Rodriguez, Nancy Erbstein, Rebeca Burciaga, and Cassie Hartzog. 2010. Educating for Equity: An Analysis of the Capital Region Educational Pipeline. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.
Download Executive Summary here. - Download Full Report here.
Rios, Michael, David Campbell, and Mindy Romero. 2010. Imagining the Spaces of Regional Action: Framing Youth Problems and Solutions. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis- Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
Geraghty, Estella, Nancy Erbstein, and Teri Greenfield. 2010. Index of Youth Vulnerability. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.- Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
Geraghty, Estella, Cassie Hartzog, and Nancy Erbstein. 2010. An Analysis of Youth Well-Being in the Capital Region. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis. - Please refer to the updated version of this paper here: Putting Youth on the Map: A Pilot Instrument for Assessing Youth Well-Being.
Benner, Chris, Gideon Mazinga and Ganlin Huang. 2010. Race, Space and Youth Labor Market Opportunities in the Capital Region. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis- Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
Erbstein, Nancy, Rebeca Burciaga, Gloria M. Rodriguez. 2010. Regional Matters: Through Young People’s Eyes. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.- Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
Geraghty, Estella M. 2010. Understanding Youth Health in the Capital Region. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.- Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
Romero, Mindy, Jonathan London, with Nancy Erbstein. 2010. Opportunities and Challenges for Youth Civic Engagement. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.- Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
Eubanks Owens, Patsy, Alyssa A. Nelson, Amanda Perry, and Kindra F. Montgomery-Block. 2010. Youth Voice Matters: Toward Healthy Youth Environments. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.- Download Executive Summary here.
- Download Full Report here.
- London, Jonathan K., Nancy Erbstein, Chris Benner, Patsy Eubanks Owens, Gloria M. Rodriguez, Michael Rios, Mindy Romero, Rebeca Burciaga, Kindra Montgomery-Block, Anne-Marie Flynn. 2011. Multi-Disciplinary Research Methodology for Healthy Youth Healthy Regions. Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions Working Paper. Center for Regional Change, UC Davis.
- Download Full Report here.
Additional Products
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Youth Voices for Change Comic Book. Click here to view or to download a copy.
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Mapping Youth Voices in the Capital Region: Visit our Youth Voices Story Map.
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Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions was commissioned and funded by the Sierra Health Foundation with additional funding from The California Endowment.
