Projects | UC Davis Center for Regional Change

Data Scavenger Hunt: Environmental Justice and Health

The UC Davis Center for Regional Change (CRC) aims to support youth and adult researchers’ access to and use of data and analyses that may complement their social change efforts—potentially as context, as additive information, and/or as a focus of critique and further development.

Environmental Justice

Overview of the Student Engaged Scholars Program

The Ted Bradshaw Engaged Student Scholars Program is a student engagement program, open to all UCD undergraduate and graduate students. The program is housed in the Center for Regional Change (CRC), a solutions-based translational research center with a mission to inform the building of healthy, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable regions in California and beyond.

Bradshaw Scholars

Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Group (TEEJAG)

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 Communities Consortium (CSCC).

Land Use, Transportation, and Housing

The Sacramento San Joaquin Delta

Socioeconomic Indicators Report: The Sacramento San Joaquin Delta

The Delta Protection Commission initiated the “Delta Socioeconomic Indicators Project” in June 2016, with the goal of compiling a regional set of data that would describe the overall economic and social well-being of the Delta region. The Socioeconomic Indicators Report provides a quantitative snapshot for benchmarking policy progress in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region. Results and findings are presented as a snapshot that can be replicated in the future and tracked over time.

Community & Economic Development

Building Together

Building Together Developing key partnerships to support youth-led participatory action research in CalFresh Healthy Living, University of California Programming.

Authored by Brandon Louie, Nancy Xiong, Nancy Erbstein, Miranda Capriotti, Eli Figueroa, Cristina Luquin, Carmela Padilla, Guadalupe Ramirez, Emma Sandoval, Paul Tabarez, and Chris Gomez Wong, with Chutima Ganthavorn, Charles Go, Katie Johnson, Marisa Neelon, and Kamaljeet Singh-Khaira.

Youth Health & Well-Being

Moving from Serving Youth to Engaging Youth: Youth-led Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Interventions in UC CalFresh Nutrition Education

Authors: Brandon Louie, Nancy Erbstein, Miranda Capriotti, Marisela Ceron, Wei-ting Chen, Monica Drazba, David Ginsburg, Melissa Morris, Metria Munyan, Hector Ochoa, Paul Tabarez, Jesse Tedrick, Mary Vollinger, and Mary Welch-Bezemek

Youth Health & Well-Being

Chronic Absence in the Sacramento City Unified School District

Authors: Nancy Erbstein

Youth Health & Well-Being

California’s San Joaquin Valley: A Region and Its Children Under Stress

California’s San Joaquin Valley: A Region and Its Children Under Stress

Authors: Cassie Hartzog, Carolyn Abrams, Nancy Erbstein, Jonathan K. London, and Sara Watterson

Youth Health & Well-Being

Capitalizing Environmental Justice in the Sacramento Region

Capitalizing Environmental Justice in the Sacramento Region: Building a Strategic Framework for Regional Action

This report provides an overview of key Environmental Justice (EJ) issues and initiatives in California's Capital Region. It aims to serve as a resource for leaders in community organizations, public agencies, elected office, business, philanthropy, and other sectors who are working for a more just, healthy, and equitable region.

Environmental Justice

Identifying Violations Affecting Neighborhoods

From Testimony to Transformation: The Identifying Violations Affecting Neighborhoods (IVAN) Program

A new report from the CRC that examines IVAN's history, successes, and challenges, and offers suggestions for expanding and improving the program. We intend for this report to inform a wide range of audiences, including funders, policy-makers, public agency officials, and environmental justice advocates in California and beyond that are either currently involved in IVAN or are considering establishing an IVAN network.

Environmental Justice