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Coverage of Services to Promote Children’s Mental Health
- This companion report, developed by the Well Being Trust, Mental Health America, and the California Children’s Trust and designed for parents, advocates, health insurers, policy makers, and administrators, provides an overview of the mental health protections that parents and children are entitled to under existing law, as well as steps that states, health insurers, and the new administration must take to improve children’s mental well-being.
Meeting the Moment
Envisioned by the California Children’s Trust (CCT) and written by the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), this report offers advocates and policymakers a definitive explanation of the Medicaid entitlement for children and youth under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) mandate. The report also makes specific recommendations for how California can better fulfill its obligation under the Medi-Cal program to provide mental health services and support for California’s children and youth.
Keeping Youth out of the System and Connected to Support
Keeping Families Strong and Together: Prevention Strategies in Child Welfare
This issue of insights, a publication of The California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership, provides a framework for prevention and family strengthening strategies that is guided by data on disparities in child welfare involvement, includes innovative county approaches, and offers perspectives from a variety of stakeholders.
Immigration Legal Services in California: A Time for Bold Action
Recognizing the legal service needs of immigrant communities and legal service providers, GCIR and the California Immigrant Integration Initiative (CIII) launched a study to understand the capacity of immigration legal services in California and generate recommendations for strategic philanthropic investment. This report offers concrete suggestions to strengthen immigration legal services in California for immigrants and asylum seekers.
Youth Law Center, Advocacy Tool for Juvenile Justice Transformation
This resource, developed by the Youth Law Center, includes seven legal “maps” of the juvenile delinquency system, which provide accurate, clear legal information for youth and families, advocates, and professionals who are working to transform the juvenile justice system. Each “map” is accessible through interactive websites and includes a downloadable PDF format.
California Children’s Trust, Practical Guide
This guide, developed by the California Children’s Trust, presents five models and specific guidance for school district leaders interested in exploring partnerships and accessing Medi-Cal to meet the social, emotional, and mental health needs of students in schools.
SFCIPP Assessment of Impact – Summary & Report
This report highlights findings from an impact assessment of the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (SFCIPP), a collaboration of public and private agencies working to raise awareness and improve the lives of San Francisco children with incarcerated or detained parents. SFCIPP, which sunsetted in December 2019 after almost 20 years, developed the internationally recognized Children of Incarcerated Parents Bill of Rights, and led to numerous policy and practice changes highlighted in this 10-year review.
Supporting the Mental Health of Youth in Juvenile Court
Up to 80% of youth in foster care and 70% of youth who touch the juvenile justice system have significant mental health issues that are the result of both biological and environmental factors including exposure to trauma, violence, stress, and separation. The juvenile court can play an important role in addressing the need for care and supporting good mental health outcomes for youth. Keeping Kids in School and Out of Courts, an initiative of The California Courts, presents this series of seven bench cards and a linked Resource Guide to provide quick and easy-to-reference information on key topics.
Understanding Trauma to Promote Healing in Child Welfare
insights Volume XVII, Part 1. This issue of insights is the first of a two-part edition to share definitions, data, and perspectives to further the understanding of the role of trauma at the individual, family, community and system level and perhaps more importantly, how to promote resilience and healing to improve outcomes for children and families. Also see Part 2.
The California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership is a collaboration of private and public organizations working to improve outcomes in the child welfare system, and insights is an ongoing publication of the Partnership that examines the links between data, policy, and outcomes for our state’s most vulnerable children and families.
Trauma and Child Welfare: Strategies for Preventing and Intervening to Promote Healing
insights Volume XVII, Part 2. This issue of insights is the second of a two-part edition to share definitions, data, and perspectives to further the understanding of the role of trauma at the individual, family, community and system level. Part 2 explores California’s progress on its implementation of trauma screening in pediatric settings for eligible children, youth, and adults. Also see Part 1.
The California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership is a collaboration of private and public organizations working to improve outcomes in the child welfare system, and insights is an ongoing publication of the Partnership that examines the links between data, policy, and outcomes for our state’s most vulnerable children and families.
New Americans in Contra Costa County
Commissioned by Zellerbach Family Foundation, this 2019 New America Economy report provides a detailed look at the demographic and economic contributions of immigrants in Contra Costa County. Specifically, the report examines population growth, workforce trends, educational attainment, and immigration status.
Whole-Family Wellness for Early Childhood: A New Model for Medi-Cal Delivery and Financing
In this brief, California Children’s Trust and First Five Center for Children’s Policy share their vision for a new approach for California to conceptualize, deliver, and fund a system of care—grounded in family wellness—for Medi-Cal eligible infants and toddlers.
The California Children’s Trust Initiative – Financing new Approaches to Achieve Child Well-Being
In this brief, the California Children’s Trust and Children Now outline fiscal opportunities to initiate and invest in a fundamental re-imagining of how public child-serving systems approach and support children’s social, emotional, mental, and developmental health in California.
Model Practices for Parents in Prisons and Jails
This document contains a set of practices intended to guide correctional administrators in their efforts to support parent-child relationships. We believe these practices hold promise for benefiting incarcerated parents and improving the lives of their children and families overall without compromising the safety and security of the correctional facility. This set of practices was created in collaboration with a subject matter expert committee selected for this project.
The Future of Healing: Shifting from Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement
A shift from trauma informed care to healing centered engagement (HCE) is more than a semantic play with words, but rather a tectonic shift in how we view trauma, its causes and its intervention. HCE is strength based, advances a collective view of healing, and re-centers culture as a central feature in well-being.
The Economics of Child Abuse
“The Economics of Child Abuse” is a study quantifying the economic cost of child abuse to the state of California, Bay Area, and San Francisco.
A Radical Model for Decriminalization
In the Young Women’s Freedom Center’s work to decriminalize and decarcerate women, girls, and Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) people of color, this first research project has developed a comprehensive analysis of the extent to which those on the margins have been criminalized in the context of the rise of mass incarceration over the past 50 years. Locally, our goal with this initial report is to reveal how regional institutions in California create a systemic criminalization of women, girls, and TGNC people of color. More broadly, the report challenges the structure and practices of patriarchy as they are embedded in criminal justice systems, the current economic landscape, and academic research.
Analysis to Inform Philanthropic Investment in Children’s Mental Health
This paper summarizes findings from a scan and brief analysis of the children’s mental health advocacy landscape in California that was conducted by i.e. communications. The paper also includes links to several databases with more information about the various organizations currently working in this space, as well as related efforts in other states. This is intended to help inform and ground further conversations among advocates, philanthropy, providers, and public agencies, with the hopes of moving forward in a more collaborative, coordinated and strategic manner toward a shared vision of child and youth well-being.
Mapping Oakland
Co-commissioned by Akonadi Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, this research investigates the specificity of this sector of the ecosystem—its geography, existing infrastructure, assets, and challenges—of small, grassroots arts and culture organizations serving communities of color in Oakland, California.
Bay Area Equity Profile
Released by The San Francisco Foundation, the Equity Profile is a product of a partnership between PolicyLink and PERE, the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California.
Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy
A research study on equity issues in arts funding in the U.S., supported by funding from the Surdna Foundation.
California’s Children and Youths’ System of Care
An Agenda to Transform Promises into Practice
Young Minds Advocacy uses communications and collaborative advocacy to help youth, their families, and communities access mental health services and supports, and improve mental health system performance. This report provides an overview of California’s publicly-funded youth mental health system, examines challenges related to access, coordination of services, quality of treatment, leadership and accountability, and provides recommendations for stakeholders and advocates.
The Economic Well-Being of Kin and Non-Kin Caregivers
Led by Dr. Jill Duerr Berrick, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley worked closely with staff from the child welfare agencies in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties to examine the economic well-being and characteristics of kin and non-kin caregivers. This report summarizes the findings.
Moving Arts Leadership Forward
Released by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, this report provides recommendations to the field on how to better leverage cross-generational leadership and shared values to create a stronger arts ecosystem.
CIP Jail Survey
The Alameda County Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership and the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership worked closely with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department to conduct a first-of-its-kind survey of the entire jail population in both counties to better understand the numbers and realities of children with parents incarcerated in local jails. The report describes the methodology and presents detailed findings from the survey.
Fulfilling Medi-Cal’s Promise
Young Minds Advocacy is a nonprofit organization founded in 2012 to address the number one health issue facing young people and their families—unmet mental health needs. Using a blend of policy research and advocacy, impact litigation, and strategic communications, YMA works to change attitudes towards mental illness and break down barriers to quality mental healthcare for young people and their families. This new report finds that thousands of juvenile justice-involved youth in California may be eligible for intensive home- and community-based mental health services, which could greatly improve the lives of these vulnerable young people.
A Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform
This blueprint outlines the Youth Transition Funders Group’s ten tenets that lay the groundwork for juvenile justice reform in the United States. YTFG is composed of grantmakers who support policies and programs that treat youth like youth, and help governments and nonprofits preserve public safety and improve young people’s chances to become successful and productive adults.
ZFF Annual Report 2014
Our annual reports provide a comprehensive overview of the Foundation’s grantmaking activities and financial performance during the previous year including letters from our chairman and president, as well as a restatement of our mission, values and funding guidelines.
ZFF Annual Report 2013
Our annual reports provide a comprehensive overview of the Foundation’s grantmaking activities and financial performance during the previous year including letters from our chairman and president, as well as a restatement of our mission, values and funding guidelines.
Ending the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
California has emerged as a magnet for commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). Following the release of this pivotal report In 2013, the California Child Welfare Council created a CSEC Action Team, a multidisciplinary group, to improve systems, policies, services and supports for sex-trafficked and at-risk children and their families.
ZFF Annual Report 2012
Our annual reports provide a comprehensive overview of the Foundation’s grantmaking activities and financial performance during the previous year including letters from our chairman and president, as well as a restatement of our mission, values and funding guidelines.
SFCIPP – From Rights to Realities
The San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership works to improve the lives of children of incarcerated parents by increasing awareness of their needs, strengths and rights both within the public systems that most affect them and among the broader public. This ten-year anniversary report presents an overview of SFCIPP’s efforts, examining changes in systems, policies and practices, and addressing the needs of children with incarcerated parents.
ZFF Annual Report 2011
Our annual reports provide a comprehensive overview of the Foundation’s grantmaking activities and financial performance during the previous year including letters from our chairman and president, as well as a restatement of our mission, values and funding guidelines.
Youth Voice as a Strategy for Systems Change
The Zellerbach youth voice group is made up of organizations serving youth facing challenges including homelessness, incarceration, transitioning out of foster care, and mental health needs, casting a wide net that has changed the lives of thousands of young people. This retrospective evaluation explores youth voice as a strategy, and examines changes in policies, practices, and systems resulting from authentic youth engagement.
Collaborative Strategies for Day Labor Centers
This resource guide provides guidelines for how to engage diverse stakeholders in collaborative efforts to develop, operate, and sustain day labor centers. Resources include profiles of exemplary day labor centers in California, a directory of day labor centers statewide, and a compendium of research reports and other resources.
ZFF Annual Report 2010
Our annual reports provide a comprehensive overview of the Foundation’s grantmaking activities and financial performance during the previous year including letters from our chairman and president, as well as a restatement of our mission, values and funding guidelines.
Do Nothing About Me Without Me
Copublished by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and IISC, this guide argues the value of engaging diverse stakeholders, highlights grantmakers who are bringing stakeholders into the center of their work and offers a variety of tools to help grantmakers better engage grantees, community members and other partners.
ZFF Annual Report 2009
Our annual reports provide a comprehensive overview of the Foundation’s grantmaking activities and financial performance during the previous year including letters from our chairman and president, as well as a restatement of our mission, values and funding guidelines.
The Need to Expand Immigration Legal Services in Northern California
This survey was commissioned by the Zellerbach Family Foundation to access the scope and capacity of nonprofit groups providing immigration-related legal services in Northern California. The survey reviews services across the spectrum of immigration procedures and pays special attention to services related to naturalization.
Leverage Lost
A 1996 article by then Senior Program Executive John Kreidler of the San Francisco Foundation, Leverage Lost traces the roots of the structural inequities and flawed systems that plague nonprofit arts and culture organizations.