The Center for Regional Change (CRC) annually accepts applications from faculty, researchers, and community partners who are interested in working with a UC Davis undergraduate and/or graduate student(s). Providers are matched with scholar(s) on the basis of interests, future goals, and passions. The overall goal of the internship is to create opportunities for engaged student scholars to deepen their skills in community engagement, social justice, and environmental issues.

For the past several years, the CRC has enjoyed a collaboration with the California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH) as a way to support affordable housing developers, advocates, and policymakers at the frontlines of affordable housing production, preservation, and protection across the state. Based in Sacramento, CCRH is one of the oldest low-income housing coalitions in the country, working to promote and preserve affordable housing and sustainable, healthy communities throughout Rural California.

One in five people live below the poverty line in Yolo County. Poverty alleviation programs can exert a powerful impact on health, welfare and development, particularly for children. Accordingly, the Center for Regional Change partners with Yolo county Health and Human Services to design and evaluate the Yolo Basic Income Program (YoBI), structured to serve families with children under the age of six who are experiencing homelessness and enrolled in the CalWORKs program.

Authors: Carolyn Abrams and Brandon Louie

Under the program established for the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Rehabilitation of Clear Lake (AB 707), researchers from UC Davis Center for Regional Change (CRC) and UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) propose to conduct applied research to guide the  Committee in improving the environmental qua

This project is a cross-campus effort between the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, Occidental College’s Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, and the UC Davis Center for Regional Change.

This Story Map uses newly released chronic absence data from the California Department of Education for the 2016-17 school year to highlight schools, counties, and regions that are doing well and those that need additional support, so all students have an equal opportunity to learn. These maps illustrate the findings of a deeper analysis of the statewide chronic absence data released by the California Department of Education in 2017, via DataQuest. 

The Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Group (TEEJAG), is an advisory body dedicated to providing feedback on current and future research conducted by the Climate Smart Transportation and Communities Consortium (C-STACC).