Vision
The Center for Regional Change and partners collaborate to create healthy, prosperous, and sustainable regions in California and beyond.
Mission
The Center for Regional Change is a catalyst for collaborative, action-oriented research grounded in social and environmental justice. We engage in research, reciprocal learning, capacity building, and training with transdisciplinary, multi-sector community and campus partners to generate evidence that informs positive social change.
We conduct our work under these guiding principles
- We center the knowledge and priorities of peoples who have been historically marginalized from institutional research activities.
- We prioritize the topics of social and environmental justice, civic and youth engagement, food and housing security, and health equity.
- We use the frameworks of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and youth-led participatory action research (YPAR) to produce research that promotes change toward equity and justice.
- We democratize data through communication platforms, community engagement, science translation and dissemination, technical assistance, and curricula.
- We build bridges between decision makers, legislators, government agencies, community members, students, and academics.
- We believe that we learn best when we work hands on. We create opportunities for community-engaged scholarship and experiential learning for UCD students, community members, and scholars.
- We foster a learning community among our professional and student staff, leadership, student scholars, faculty affiliates, advisors, and partners as a community of practice that strives to enact our mission.
Contact Information
For media inquiries or general questions, please contact us at (530) 752-3007 or at crcinfo@ucdavis.edu.
Our mailing address is:
UC Davis Center for Regional Change
150 Mrak Hall Dr.
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616