UCL A I N T H E COM MU N I T Y 2014 DIR E C TO RY
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UCLA has become one of the world’s great research universities in large part because of the city we call home. Los Angeles is not only a beautiful and dynamic place; it is a beacon for the world’s most creative thinkers and a unique living laboratory for studying and understanding the trends that will shape our world for generations to come. As a great public research university, UCLA embraces its responsibility to enrich Los Angeles and Southern California through teaching, research and service. These three parts of our mission are the core of all we do, and each day they come together in the scholarship undertaken by our world-class faculty and students. Teaching, research and service also underpin our ambitious new Grand Challenges initiative. Launched in November 2013, Grand Challenges calls upon researchers throughout our campus to come together to tackle some of society’s most pressing issues. These efforts will have a global impact but they will be shaped by, and create significant benefits for, Los Angeles. The first Grand Challenge project is a perfect example: Drawing upon our broad-based expertise, UCLA will lead the way toward making Los Angeles a model for urban sustainability. Our goal is for the region to use exclusively renewable energy and local water by 2050. Grand Challenges, like many of our ongoing campus initiatives, will engage UCLA scholars with local government, foundations, private industry and other community agencies. From law to medicine, and from social sciences to dentistry, faculty and students are bringing innovations and compassion to the communities where we live. Many of those partnerships are outlined here in our 2014 UCLA in the Community Directory. This guide, researched and published by our Government and Community Relations staff, offers a window into the depth and breadth of UCLA’s community outreach. Thank you for your support of UCLA, and thank you for working with us to build a stronger future for Los Angeles.
Gene D. Block Chancellor
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U C L A G O V E R N M E N T & C O M M U N I T Y R E L A T I O N S The purpose of UCLA Government & Community Relations (G&CR) is to offer UCLA’s expertise and resources to the local community and invite the community to participate in UCLA life by establishing and maintaining positive relationships. As a public university, UCLA must make a difference in the civic life of Los Angeles and positively impact people around the world. Through our students, faculty and staff, our campus already is deeply invested in this effort. UCLA provides widespread programs in civic education through classroom instruction, service learning and professional training. In the spirit of Civic Engagement, I am pleased to provide you with the 2014 UCLA in the Community Directory, a comprehensive guide reflecting our numerous relationships with schools, centers and community organizations in Greater Los Angeles. Among these programs are partnerships that have stood the test of time, many of which have been serving our community for more than 40 years. UCLA’s community programs partner with civic institutions, nonprofit organizations, schools, community colleges, neighborhoods and individuals to improve the quality of life through research, scholarship, mentorship, counseling, work experience and community service for all of Los Angeles County. Under the umbrella of Government & Community Relations, this past September, the UCLA Volunteer Center held its fifth annual UCLA Volunteer Day, the largest single day college volunteer event in the nation, again sending over 7,000 Bruins across the City to over 50 locations. Before students attend their first class, first year freshmen and transfers join together with continuing undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and community members to participate in a wide range of community service projects across Los Angeles. Those projects are highlighted in this directory. The directory is published as a tool from which internal and external audiences can take full advantage of the many educational, environmental, business, legal, art, library, ethnic, gender, health services, and government programs the University offers. . Keith S. Parker Assistant Vice Chancellor Government & Community Relations
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LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS
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PERFORMING & VISUAL ARTS
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STUDENTS, ALUMNI & SPECIAL PROGRAMS
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ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF PROGRAMS
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INDEX OF PROGRAMS BY SCHOOLS
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PROJECT COORDINATORS E. Felicia Brannon Rachel Brashier Carmen Healey Marco Perez Evelyn Stewart
ART DIRECTION Shilo Munk
COPY EDITING Kathleen Woods
SPECIAL THANKS Sean Brenner University Communications
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Please visit our website where additional information and the most current updates to the directory can be found: www.communitydirectory.ucla.edu
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APPLIED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH PROGRAMS
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Gonzalo Freixes
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Since 1967, the Applied Management Research Program (AMR) has brought together more than 3,000 MBA student teams with executives from organizations around the world. In conjunction with an organization’s staff, each team completes an in-depth study of the company and their industry for 20 weeks. Near the end of the project, the team delivers a comprehensive written and oral report that offers strategic analysis of problems
Chelsea Lucio Phone: 310-794-2196 http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/ x911.xml
and effective solutions. During the two-quarter program, each student team (consisting of four to six second-year MBA students) is guided by a faculty advisor, and spends 800 to 1,000 hours working on a project. Our various partners over the past 40 years have included Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, microfinance institutions, and startup companies. These diverse clients have offered excellent learning experiences for our students, and also helped many companies expand their customer bases, improve their products, create effective marketing campaigns, and explore new sources of revenue. The AMR Program is the oldest and most comprehensive experiential-education program in business schools across the U.S. AMR works with diverse organizations in both the local community and across the globe, and our MBA student teams have delivered valuable solutions to their critical issues.
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The Community Scholars Program is a joint initiative of UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning and the Center for Labor Research and Education that recognizes the important role that community and labor leaders play in shaping community-development policy in Los Angeles. By bringing together labor and community leaders with urban planning students, the program provides these community leaders with a forum in which
Jacqueline Leavitt Phone: 310-825-4380 Fax: 310-206-5566 jleavitt@ucla.edu
to study issues and develop skills required to influence policy.
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The Community Scholars Program offers an opportunity for community and labor leaders, regardless of their educational backgrounds, to participate in graduate classes for two academic quarters. Throughout the two quarters, Community Scholars have the opportunity to meet biweekly at an off-campus facility with UCLA faculty from a variety of disciplines who have interests in community-development issues. These meetings are primarily intended as forums in which scholars can exchange ideas and brainstorm about issues related to classes and their work. The Community Scholars Program is available to selected participants. Community Scholars receive the same access to faculty advisors, library services, and other academic resources and privileges granted to full-time students. In addition, scholars may enroll in other courses within the Department of Urban Planning and, by special arrangement, within the other departments of the Luskin School of Public Affairs.
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Elaine K. Hagan CONTACT Hasmik Stepania Jackie Leiva Phone: 310-794-6346 Fax: 310-206-9102 hasmik.stepanian@anderson.ucla.edu jacqueline.leiva@anderson.ucla.edu http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/ x20079.xml
ENTREPRENEURSHIP BOOTCAMP FOR VETERANS WITH DISABILITIES ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 110 Westwood Plaza, Suite C305 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) offers cutting-edge, experiential training in entrepreneurship and small-business management to soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines disabled as a result of their service supporting Operations: Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. EBV is committed to opening the door to entrepreneurship and small-business ownership to these veterans, developing their competencies in the many steps and activities associated with creating and sustaining an entrepreneurial venture, and in coordinating with programs and services unique to veterans and others with disabilities. The EBV was first introduced by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University in 2007. In 2008, the EBV Consortium of Schools was launched in a national partnership with UCLA Anderson School of Management, Florida State University's College of Business, and Mays Business School at Texas A&M. Since then, the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, the University of Connecticut School of Business, and the Louisiana State University’s E.J. Ourso College of Business have joined the consortium. The EBV is designed around two central elements: a) focused, practical training in the tools and skills of new venture creation and growth, reflecting issues unique to disability and public benefits programs; and b) the establishment of a support structure for graduates of the program. EBV applications will be accepted from veterans with a "service-connected disability" as designated by the Veterans Administration, and who have served on active duty after September 2001. This program is entirely free to the veterans, as a result of the generous support of the EBV Universities and the private giving of individuals and corporations.
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Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) offers a management-certificate program for established entrepreneurs looking to grow and expand their businesses. Managers and executives attend courses on key management topics such as strategic planning, marketing, finance, operations, and human resources. Courses are taught by award-winning faculty from The Anderson School’s top-ranked MBA programs. Participants also receive individual consultations from MBA students as they develop strategic initiatives aimed at improving their businesses. Program sponsors include AT&T, Cisco, Chevron, Sempra Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and Union Bank. The MDE program aims to include businesses owned by minorities, women, and
Hasmik Stepanian Phone: 310-206-4169 Fax: 310-206-9102 jacqueline.leiva@anderson.ucla.edu, hasmik.stepanian@anderson.ucla.edu http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/ x320.xml
disabled veterans from throughout California. The 10-week program takes place in Southern California every fall, and the MDE Academy takes place in Silicon Valley every fall, and a four-day MDE Academy takes place in Silicon Valley in the spring.
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CONTACT UCLA Anderson Net Impact is the UCLA Chapter of the National Net Impact organization. Net Impact’s mission is to improve the world by growing and strengthening a network of leaders who are using the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact. Net Impact has more than 160 student and professional chapters on four continents in 75 cities and 80 graduate schools, a central office in San Francisco, and partnerships with leading for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Net Impact enables members to use business for social good in their graduate educations, careers, and communities. The UCLA Anderson Chapter of Net Impact is a group of students who want to put their business skills to use in a positive way, whether it be incorporating environmental management practices into a large corporation,
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working for a small nonprofit, or launching into the world of social entrepreneurship. Net Impact offers a speaker’s series, internship opportunities, conferences, and social events designed to support business students who want to help build a better world.
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Angela Klein CONTACT Angela Klein Phone: 310-825-5662 Fax: 310-206-9102 angela.klein@anderson.ucla.edu http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/ x19486.xml
PROJECT ECHO ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Price Center Entrepreneurial Studies 110 Westwood Plaza, Suite C305 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Project ECHO aims to inspire and engage high school students through hands-on, entrepreneurial experiences by developing and teaching curriculum, partnering students with mentors, hosting business plan competitions, and creating opportunities for students to start and run small businesses. Each year, UCLA Anderson hosts a business plan competition supported by the Price Center and the Entrepreneur Association and led by Project ECHO. It provides Southern California high school students the opportunity to develop and present their business plans to prominent members of the business community. MBA students mentor these kids through the year and earn Challenge for Charity credits.
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Roxanne Mendez CONTACT Roxanne Mendez Phone: 310-206-3596 Fax: 310-267-0165 riordan.programs@anderson.ucla.edu http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/ x257.xml
THE RIORDAN PROGRAMS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT 110 Westwood Plaza, Suite D304A Los Angeles, CA 90095 Founded in 1987, by former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan and UCLA Anderson Professor William Ouchi, The Riordan Programs is a pioneering career-based outreach program that motivates high school students, college students, and recent college graduates from diverse backgrounds and underserved communities to consider and prepare for careers in management through education, mentorship, and professional development. The Riordan Programs mission • Encourage individuals (high school age through post-baccalaureate) with little guidance and mentorship to consider careers in business and to seek graduate-level education opportunities. • Prepare individuals to be admissible to top universities and graduate programs. • Prepare individuals for leadership positions in the business community and society by providing the necessary training to fulfill their career goals in management. Program Background: The Riordan Programs have impacted over 3,300 young people. The programs have provided our students with encouragement to continue their educations into college and onto graduate school. The students became part of a cohesive group of students who share similar goals and aspirations. They meet in monthly training sessions. In addition, each has contact with a mentor.
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The Riordan Programs are comprised of three components: 1) Riordan Fellows: The Riordan Fellows Program provides young professionals leadership and management training and motivates participants to competitively apply to and succeed in top MBA programs. The Fellows Program targets recent college graduates who are considering graduate education in business management. Its core purpose is to educate, prepare, and motivate these individuals to competitively apply to and succeed in top MBA programs and careers in management. 2) Riordan College to Career Program: The Riordan College to Career Program targets current college students. Its core purpose is to educate, provide early awareness, and motivate these individuals to competitively apply to and succeed in their careers and get further insights into top graduate school programs. 3) Riordan Scholars: The Riordan Scholars Program is a college preparatory program that focuses on business and leadership for high school students. The program targets college-bound 10th, 11th, and 12th grade high school students who are interested in learning about business and developing leadership skills. Scholars attend eight monthly Saturday seminars at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
P R O J E C T S RIORDAN FELLOWS The Riordan Fellows Program provides young professionals with leadership and management training and motivates participants to competitively apply to and succeed in top MBA programs. The program targets recent college graduates who are considering graduate education in business management. Its core purpose is to educate, prepare, and motivate these individuals to competitively apply to and succeed in top MBA programs and careers in management. RIORDAN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT The Riordan Healthcare Management Program targets current college students who are considering careers in the health care industry. Its core purpose is to educate, prepare, and motivate these individuals to competitively apply to and succeed in top MBA programs and a careers in health care management. RIORDAN SCHOLARS The Riordan Scholars Program is a college-preparatory program that focuses on business and leadership for high school students. The program targets college-bound 10th, 11th, and 12th grade high school students who are interested in learning about business and developing leadership skills. Scholars attend eight monthly Saturday seminars at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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Edward Leamer CONTACT Winnie Ocean Phone: 310-825-1623 Fax: 310-206-9940 forecast@anderson.ucla.edu http://www.uclaforecast.com
UCLA ANDERSON FORECAST ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT 110 Westwood Plaza, Suite B-302 Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA Anderson Forecast has a significant presence in the Southland, and we release our forecasts at quarterly conferences that regularly attract 300 to 400 business leaders and government officials. In recent years, we have used our expertise to expand and offer forecasts and corresponding conferences in other regional markets: Orange County and San Diego. We will continue to build further to include other regions in need of more in-depth objective analysis. The UCLA Anderson Forecast is widely recognized for its ability to predict transition points in both the national and state economies. We were the first major forecasting organization to predict the 2001 recession. Our December 2000 Forecast identified the first signs of weakness in the national economy while other bluechip forecasters continue to make rosy projections of three percent gross domestic product growth. This foresight is not unusual: The UCLA Anderson Forecast also predicted the previous recession in the early 1990s, warning specifically about the potential for a severe downturn in Southern California. In 2002, the UCLA Anderson Forecast was among the first to identify the growing imbalances in the housing sector and correctly predicted sharply declining sales volumes and weak prices when rates returned to normal. We provide much more than economic projections. We fully equip our audience with not only the “what” but the “why” by providing our forecast as well as the practical applications. The UCLA Anderson Forecast has been producing economic outlooks for the nation for over 50 years, one of the longest-running major economic forecasts in the nation. In addition to our national forecast, we also produce forecasts for the State of California, as well as the Los Angeles and East Bay regions.
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Ariella Herman CONTACT Carol Wang Phone: 310-206-1283 Fax: 310-206-3924 carol.wang@anderson.ucla.edu http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/ x682.xml
UCLA/JOHNSON & JOHNSON HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE HAROLD AND PAULINE PRICE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES 110 Westwood Plaza Gold Hall Suite C-305 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute (HCI) is a national program established to assist Head Start agencies, which reach nearly 1 million economically disadvantaged children and their families every day. By training Head Start families, who are predominantly uninsured or utilize Medicaid for the treatment of common childhood illnesses, HCI has reduced doctor and emergency room visits, thereby contributing to a more effective use of health care resources. Families have become more knowledgeable in providing for their children’s health care needs and, in turn, have grown more confident in other important aspects of their lives.
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Several objectives guide the program: • Empower parents in decision making for the health care needs of their children; • Enhance parents’ self esteem and confidence in meeting their parental objectives; • Enable parents to become better caregivers for their children by improving their health care knowledge and skills; • Provide training and information to participating child/family-focused organizations to successfully implement health care literacy-training programs for families; and • Actively contribute to the reduction of increasing health care costs in the United States. Since the HCI began in 2001, it has taught over 70,000 parents nationwide how to treat everyday childhood illnesses at home, easing the burden on local emergency rooms and clinics. Utilizing a medical reference guide written at a third-grade reading level, HCI has shown a significant decrease in school days and workdays missed, 29 percent and 42 percent, respectively. The study also pointed to a significant decrease in doctor/clinic and emergency room visits. After families were trained, there was a 42 percent decrease in doctor/clinic visits and a 58 percent decrease in emergency room visits. At an average cost of just $80/family, the training has achieved remarkable results. The UCLA/HCI studies show that training 10,000 families using the HCI’s methodology can lead to a total cost savings of nearly $5.1 million to Medicaid in direct costs associated with unnecessary emergency room and clinic visits annually. HCI is a comprehensive approach to health empowerment for Head Start parents, children, and staff with an array of programs targeting key health issues such as common childhood illnesses, oral health, over-thecounter medication, and diabetes/obesity prevention. The HCI’s methodologies of training have been proven to make valuable long-term differences in the lives of Head Start families. The HCI is changing families—one family at a time.
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Victor Tabbush CONTACT Diana Hernandez Phone: 310-794-9559 Fax: 310-206-3924 diana.hernandez@anderson.ucla.edu http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/ x13884.xml
UCLA/JOHNSON & JOHNSON MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 110 Westwood Plaza Entrepreneurs Hall, Suite C-305 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Management Development Institute (MDI) for Health Care Organizations is a one-week intensive program designed to enhance the leadership and management skills of program managers and leaders of Sub-Saharan African organizations, governmental and nongovernmental, that are devoted to delivering health care services to underserved populations. The program has been specifically designed to assist African ministries of health in implementing their particular national health priorities. Over 700 participants from 31 African countries have already graduated from this program. Up until 2010, the MDI was focused solely on HIV/AIDS, with its first program in 2006 held in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2011 the program's new focus expanded to health systems, generally, and invites participation of those involved in implementing national health priorities in the areas not only of communicable diseases, of which HIV/AIDS is one, but also chronic diseases. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes, in particular among chronic diseases, have become increasingly responsible for the overall burden of disease and for the accompanying financial burden for treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. The program has been designed by world-class management faculty from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and by leaders of the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF). The MDI is delivered by instructors from UCLA, AMREF, and by outstanding faculty from other African universities, including the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Effective leadership and management of health systems and services is a barrier to scaling up service delivery and for the attainment of both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and of achieving national health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa. This constraint persists due to a shortage of leadership and management expertise in the region, and to an uncoordinated and fragmented approach to building leadership and management capacity. Leadership and management knowledge, skills, and abilities that can be taught have a demonstrated impact in enhancing the quantity, quality, and access to health care for underserved populations. Health systems must accomplish more and better health outcomes with the limited human and financial resources at their disposal. Sound management and leadership can significantly increase the efficiency and effectiveness with which these scarce resources are used. The major goal of the MDI is to provide ministries of health with the requisite management and leadership capacity to implement their stated national health priorities. Representatives from public health systems, along with their Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) implementing partners, will learn management tools, frameworks, and knowledge that will enable them to increase the quantity and quality of health services they provide along with improved access to them. The lessons will be practical and are aimed toward successfully meeting the complex challenges faced by Eastern, West, and Southern African health systems.
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CONTACT As part of the University of California’s system-wide Student Academic Preparation & Educational Partnership (SAPEP) efforts, UCLA’s Academic Preparation & Educational Partnership Programs (APEP) work with students and schools in traditionally underserved areas to enhance the student preparation pipeline from passing the high school exit exam (CAHSEE) to completing UC and CSU A-G eligibility-required courses and taking prescribed tests to achieve UC and CSU eligibility to graduation with a baccalaureate, to graduate and professional education. Each program listed on the APEP webpage is funded, at least in part, by SAPEP funds.
Jody Z. Priselac Phone: 310-206-0023 Fax: 310-206-5369 priselac@gseis.ucla.edu apep.gseis.ucla.edu
UCLA's student/school/family focused APEP programs receive SAPEP funding and include the Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP); Student Initiated Access Center (SIAC); community college APEP efforts in the College's Center for Community College Partnerships (CCCP) and in the Student Affairs' Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools (UARS) office; P-20 Regional Intersegmental Alliance programs in Center X in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS); graduate and professional school programs in the Graduate Division, Law School, and Medical School; and the ArtsBridge program in the School of Theater, Film & Television. Oversight of UCLA's APEP programs rests with the Dean of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs who serve as co-chairs for UCLA APEP programs. The campus APEP co-chairs are responsible for coordinating campus units engaged in Pre-K-12, community college, and graduate and professional APEP activities, coordinating with other campus units that can assist these efforts, reporting to the UC Office of the President on UCLA's APEP efforts, and serving as the main source of information and referral for the campus vis-à-vis academic preparation and educational partnerships.
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P R O J E C T S ARTSBRIDGE Moving images play a key role in shaping society. The UCLA Film & Television Archive is dedicated to safeguarding not only this moving image legacy, but also sharing this rich cultural history with students, scholars, and film lovers. In that effort, the archive reaches almost 40,000 individuals annually through our public programming and educational access to our vast collection. The UCLA Film & Television Archive is internationally renowned for its pioneering efforts to preserve and showcase moving image media. Through an aggressive program of acquisition, restoration, transfer, and maintenance of its extensive collections, the Archive preserves the rich media heritage found in classic and current motion pictures, innovative television programming, and newsreels. The archive constitutes one of the largest collections of moving image media materials in the United States-second only to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.-and the largest of any university in the world. The combined collections represent an all-encompassing documentation of the 20th century. The archive’s permanent collection contains material dating back to the 1890s. The motion picture holdings include major 35mm collections from Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Bros., Sony/Columbia Pictures, New World Pictures, Orion Pictures, RKO, and Republic Pictures. In 1981, the bulk of the Hearst Metrotone News collection was donated to the archive, including copyrights, for over 27 million feet of theatrically released newsreels, unreleased stories, and outtakes. The archive houses a sizeable number of independent films in the Sundance Collection, the largest collection of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender moving images as part of the UCLA/Outfest Legacy Collection, and an extensive collection of African American films through a partnership with the Mayme Clayton Library. Additionally, the Archive holds major film collections donated by the American Film Institute, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, and the Stanford Theatre Foundation.
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE PARTNERSHIPS The Center for Community College Partnerships (CCCP) is responsible for developing and strengthening academic partnerships between UCLA and California community colleges, particularly those with large underrepresented student populations. CCCP works closely with community college administrators, faculty, and staff to strengthen and diversify curriculum, create strong academic support programs, improve students’ academic competitiveness for admission to UCLA, and increase the diversity of UCLA’s transfer-admit pool. The Center also works closely with UCLA’s K–12 outreach programs, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, the Community College Transfer Recruitment staff, and other campus offices to help coordinate UCLA’s overall efforts with community colleges and to assist transfer students through all stages of university life.
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EARLY ACADEMIC OUTREACH PROGRAM The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) is an academic preparation program established in 1976 by the University of California to expand postsecondary education opportunities for California’s educationally disadvantaged students. UCLA EAOP works with students to help them become competitively eligible applicants for college admission, going beyond minimum eligibility. EAOP works collaboratively with families, educators, schools, communities, and various campus departments to provide pre-college students with challenging academic enrichment activities to promote and cultivate a college-going culture. EAOP is one of the state’s most successful pre-collegiate student academic development programs. UCLA EAOP works with over 15,000 students in middle school and high school each year. This includes working with 80 schools in 10 school districts. Since 1991, approximately 60 percent of EAOP seniors meet UC eligibility each year, 82 percent attend a postsecondary institution upon high school graduation and 62 percent attend a four-year institution, with 25 percent attending a UC school.
LAW SCHOOL PROGRAMS By equipping talented and motivated disadvantaged and underrepresented students with an academically based program, sound counseling, test preparation, and mentorship, we are confident that the Law School will better prepare participants to successfully gain admission to, and succeed at, the UCLA School of Law. Recognizing that highly competitive students have a variety of options when making admissions decisions, we are committed to making UCLA's Law School the most attractive first choice for all highly competitive disadvantaged and underrepresented accepted applicants by demonstrating to them that we want, and actively seek, their presence at the Law School.
MEDICAL SCHOOL PROGRAMS Conferences are designed to bring together premedical counselors, advisors, science professors, and students to dialogue with California medical school faculty and admissions officers in order to identify and prepare promising students for medical training and careers. Participants will consider current issues in premedical student preparation with a view to creating a physician workforce capable of assuming the varied roles in medicine: clinical, academic, and research, particularly for California.
P-20 REGIONAL INTERSEGMENTAL ALLIANCE PROGRAMS UCLA's P-20 Regional Intersegmental Alliance Programs is housed in Center X in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. The P-20 work shares the ultimate goal of improving the educational achievement and attainment of young people who come from families and social circumstances that are least able on their own to support high levels of achievement and attainment (e.g., low socioeconomic status of the family, low educational attainment of parents, young person's first language other than English, young person attends or attended a low performing public school). All three programmatic elements involve target populations of young people residing in Los Angeles County and the public schools they attend. The primary work of P-20 supported activities focuses on coaching teachers in the content areas in local schools.
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STUDENT INITIATED ACCESS CENTER The Student Initiated Access Center (SIAC) was founded in the spring of 1998 as a means of funding studentinitiated/operated middle and high school outreach/mentorship programs. The SIAC provides an alternative to traditional university outreach efforts by admitting middle and high school students from low-performing academic backgrounds, who exhibit potential for future success, into their programs. SIAC projects accept all students who apply, and the program works at their different levels to empower them to take their academic and life goals into their own hands. The SIAC believes wholeheartedly that the process of middle/high school outreach and mentorship has to be grounded within the community where the youth live. The process of increasing access to higher education is a collective effort of students, parents, and community members. The SIAC projects attempt to incorporate all stakeholders into their programs in order to build strong students and strong leaders who exhibit good values and strong character. Born out of student activism, the seven SIAC projects, which are administered by full-time professional project directors, are the only outreach programs on campus that are directly accountable to students. The SIAC is funded by the Student Initiated Access Committee, a university committee with a majority student vote, as well as faculty and staff representation. The SIAC programs include: • American Indian Recruitment (AIR) • Higher Opportunity Program for Education (HOPE) • Mentors for Academic and Peer Support (MAPS) • Pacific Islander Education and Retention (PIER) • Students Heightening Academic Performance through Education (SHAPE) • Samahang Pilipino Advancing Community Empowerment (SPACE) • Xinachtli
UC LEADS The UC LEADS Program is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by the University of California system. This program provides up to nine UCLA upper-division undergraduate students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with educational experiences that prepare them to assume positions of leadership in academia, industry, government, and public service following the completion of a doctoral degree, preferably at the University of California. UC LEADS funding comes in part from the State of California as part of the Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships (SAPEP). The University of California's SAPEP programs seek to raise student achievement levels generally and to close achievement gaps between groups of students throughout the K–20 pipeline so that more educationally disadvantaged students are prepared for postsecondary education, to pursue graduate and professional school opportunities and to achieve success in the workplace.
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UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS AND RELATIONS WITH SCHOOLS The Community College Transfer Recruitment Program (CCTR) and the Student Transfer Opportunity & Mentoring Program (STOMP) are both housed in the Undergraduate Admissions & Relations with Schools office. These efforts are partially funded by APEP funds. CCTR staff work on-site at over 38 California Community Colleges. CCTR works closely with community college transfer center staff, counseling units, student organizations, and other student support departments. These partnerships allow CCTR staff to identify, advise, and maintain contact with prospective transfer students. CCTR staff work to improve students' academic competitiveness for admission to CSU and UC. Critical to CCTR efforts are to increase the number of transfer students from diverse socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds. STOMP is supported by current undergraduates who transferred to UCLA from California Community Colleges. STOMP volunteers reach out to prospective transfer students in order to disseminate accurate information about the transfer process. Each quarter, STOMP students visit several community college sites and provide presentations to prospective transfer students. Two unique services that STOMP provides are: UCLA campus tours for community college students, and the STOMP prospective student conference in the spring. Undergraduate Admissions Programs work collaboratively with other campus programs such as the Transfer Alliance Program (TAP) and The Center for Community College Partnerships (CCCP) to increase the admissibility of transfer students.
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Rhonda Flenoy Younger Phone: 310-825-9193 Fax: 310-267-0330 rflenoy@sonnet.ucla.edu
they learn about study strategies and career options, and experience the vitality of university life. As part of the Rebuild L.A. Project within the university, the School of Nursing decided to do something within the minority community that would not be just a one-time thing, but an ongoing project. The UCLA School of Nursing decided to adopt Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School, located in South Central Los Angeles, and held their first Summer Internship Program in the summer of 1992. The School of Nursing has had a clothing and book drive, helped school nurses by providing them with medical supplies and donated money for families who could not afford to buy school uniforms for their children.
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The Summer Internship Program is held in late July for one week, eight hours a day. The students work with their mentors half the day and participate in special activities the other half of the day. Fifteen students participate in the Summer Internship Program. While with their mentors, the students learn basic office skills, take a tour of the UCLA campus, visit the Hammer and Fowler museums, and participate in a Leadership Workshop. Lunch is also provided each day of the program.
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Tyrone Howard CONTACT Tyrone Howard Phone: 310-267-4824 Fax: 310-206-5369 thoward@gseis.ucla.edu http://www.blackmaleinstitute.org/
BLACK MALE INSTITUTE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION STUDIES 1026 Moore Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Black Male Institute (BMI) is a cadre of scholars, practitioners, community members, and policy makers dedicated to improving the educational experiences and life chances of Black males. We consider educational settings to be critical spaces for developing informed action to address Black male persistence in schooling; we also recognize the challenges that impact the academic success of Black males are manifold - be they economic, social, legal, or health related. As such, the BMI seeks to identify and promote practical interventions, reliable research, effective programs, best practices, and responsible policy innovations that are informed by interdisciplinary perspectives in order to improve the educational outcomes of Black males.
P R O J E C T S SAVING OUR SONS The Saving our Sons Project represents the inaugural collaborative research effort of the Black Male Institute at UCLA. Funded by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, it is a three-year project devoted to researching and improving the schooling experiences of Black males across Los Angeles. The study examines the effectiveness of five single-sex classrooms / academies across Los Angeles County that attempt to intervene in the perennial school failure of the Black male students enrolled therein. The first stage of this project involved collecting baseline data on Black male students at each site. The second stage will examine the impact of single-sex spaces on student performance and feelings toward school. The third and final stage of this project will summarize the project's findings while making concrete recommendations for school leaders and policy makers.
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Through service-learning programs focused on equal access to educational opportunities, BruinCorps enhances academic achievement in under-resourced areas of Los Angeles while fostering an ethic of lifelong community service among UCLA students.
Phone: 310-794-5661 Fax: 310-794-5702 jpatterson@saonet.ucla.edu http://www.bruincorps.ucla.edu
BruinCorps members tutor students in schools and community-based organizations in low-income areas of East, West, and South Los Angeles. Tutors work with children who need individualized attention in the classroom and after school. BruinCorps tutors provide information to parents on how to work with children at home to enhance their academic performance. BruinCorps also establishes College Centers in schools and community-based organizations in areas whose populations have low college-attendance rates. To prepare students for a successful high school career and transition to college, College Center activities provide information on college-track high school curricula, standardized testing, service and leadership elements, and the competitive college admissions processes. The Centers also provide information on financial aid resources with the aim of establishing college attendance as an attainable goal for first-generation college candidates. Through BruinCorps community engagement programs, hundreds of UCLA students and graduates serve more than 8,000 elementary, middle, and high school children and parents in low-income areas by providing academic tutoring and information on college-admission requirements and financial aid. BruinCorps members and volunteers also foster civic engagement in Los Angeles through projects designed to promote community access to public information, process, and resources. The programs utilize federal work-study funds, state and federal grants to mobilize UCLA undergraduates and recent college graduates to engage in meaningful service.
P R O J E C T S AMERICA COUNTS America Counts is a national initiative that seeks to equip children with the math and science skills they need to achieve their full potential. Modeled after America Reads, America Counts utilizes volunteer tutors, including federal work-study students, to help children master the fundamentals of mathematics. UCLA’s America Counts tutors work with students in grades five through nine, providing one-on-one and small-group tutoring basic math, pre-algebra, and algebra, and contribute to classroom curriculum design and implementation.
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AMERICA READS In 1994, 40 percent of America’s fourth graders failed to attain the basic level of reading, and 70 percent of children fell below the proficient level of reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. In response, former President Clinton announced the America Reads Challenge, an initiative that aims to mobilize public and private resources to ensure that all children can read well and independently by the end of third grade. Consequently, former President Clinton challenged higher education institutions to increase substantially the number of federal work-study students engaged in tutorial services, particularly through the America Reads initiative. UCLA’s America Reads tutors provide tutorial services to children in grades K–5. America Reads activities include: providing one-on-one or small-group tutoring in reading, writing, and language development; assisting children in reading and language-enrichment activities; instructing small groups in specific topics and/or skills related to reading, writing, and language development; preparing and developing instructional material; reading to and with individuals or groups; administering reading tests; and assessing student progress.
AMERICORPS VISTA PROJECT Through a grant from AmeriCorps VISTA, BruinCorps partners with city community service sites and schools to develop and maintain College Career Centers in middle schools and community-based organizations. During their year of service, VISTA volunteers provide college admissions information and application assistance for youth in East Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, West Los Angeles, and the San Fernando Valley.
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Jia Ming Chen CONTACT Jia Ming Chen Phone: 310-983-1387 Fax: 310-267-4918 highschoolnanoscience@cnsi.ucla.edu http://cnsi.ctrl.ucla.edu/nanoscience/ pages/homepage
CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE HIGH SCHOOL NANOSCIENCE PROGRAM, A K-12 OUTREACH PROGRAM COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114, MC 722710 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The CNSI High School Nanoscience Program brings nanoscience to high school classrooms in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and throughout the greater Los Angeles area. The program helps schools and teachers improve their science curricula by integrating current science topics as examples for teaching fundamental science concepts in order to introduce students to the new field of nanoscience and foster enthusiasm about science in general. Graduate students and post doctoral scholars associated with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) design experiments to demonstrate concepts about chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering that can be conducted easily by high school students. CNSI works closely with Center X which is the science outreach arm of the UCLA School of Education. Enthusiastic high school teachers are brought to UCLA for training workshops throughout the school year. The graduate students and post-doctoral scholars lead participating high school teachers in training workshops and provide experiment kits for use in their classrooms.
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The Center for American Indian & Indigenous Research and Education (CAIIRE) is located in the School of Nursing at UCLA. The mission of CAIIRE is to improve the status of Native peoples by promoting, developing, and evaluating culturally appropriate health, education, and social programs.
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CAIIRE’s priorities are: • Identification of barriers impeding optimal health-care utilization, • Development and testing of culturally sensitive health- and social-service-intervention models, and • Recruitment and retention of Native students into institutions of higher learning.
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The Center for Community College Partnerships (CCCP) is responsible for developing and strengthening academic partnerships between UCLA and California community colleges, particularly those with large underrepresented student populations. CCCP works closely with community college administrators, faculty, and staff to strengthen and diversify curriculum, create strong academic support programs, improve students’ academic competitiveness for admission to UCLA, and increase the diversity of UCLA’s transfer-admit pool. The Center also works closely with UCLA’s K–12 outreach programs, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, the
Alfred Herrera Phone: 310-267-4440 Fax: 310-267-4446 cccp@college.ucla.edu http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/ aap/cccp/
Community College Transfer Recruitment staff, and other campus offices to help coordinate UCLA’s overall efforts with community colleges and to assist transfer students through all stages of university life.
P R O J E C T S COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONSORTIUM The goal of the UCLA Community College Consortium (CCC) is to improve transfer rates for under-represented, underserved, and low-income students at our partner institutions. CCC places UCLA students who have successfully transferred from a community college as peer advisors at each of the campuses. The program works with faculty in addressing curriculum issues and with staff to provide and improve support for transfer students.
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SUMMER INTENSIVE TRANSFER PROGRAM The Summer Intensive Transfer Program is a six-day residential program that will teach students how to navigate the community college system; complete the appropriate coursework; and maximize their time in order to make a smooth, quick, and successful transition to a University of California campus.
SUMMER TRANSFER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM UCLA’s Summer Sessions Office, along with the Center for Community College Partnerships (CCCP), offers a free summer course at UCLA. This is a six-week, lower-division (numbered 1-99) course offered through the regular summer sessions. The program will cover the cost of the course, registration fees, books, and, if needed, transportation expenses. This is a commuter program, not a residential program. Students must participate in a supplementary program on specific days (Monday-Thursday from 1:00 -4:00 p.m.) that will include mentorship, workshops, tutoring, and study sessions. Students will be selected by CCCP.
SUMMER TRANSFER PROGRAM The Summer Transfer Program (STP) is a six-day residential program that will prepare students who are close to transferring with the skills to complete the appropriate coursework and assist them with the application process. In addition, students will receive individual advising and personal assistance to complete the application and personal statement. Students explore their career options, graduate school, and financial resources available to them. The program introduces them to research opportunities, the demands of university-level writing, and the many available support programs. The program focuses on resources available to African-American students.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM The Center also runs the University of California Transfer Opportunity Program (UCTOP), an aggressive phone-calling campaign to encourage community college students to consider transferring to a UC campus. Transfer students are hired to phone community college students with demonstrated potential for success in the UC system and to visit specific community colleges to meet prospective transfer students.
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Kathy O’Byrne CONTACT Kathy O’Byrne Phone: 310-825-7867 Fax: 310-267-2482 kobyrne@college.ucla.edu http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/ communitylearning/
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LEARNING COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE A265 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 The mission of the UCLA Center for Community Learning is to promote civic engagement for undergraduates and faculty through the integration of teaching, research, and service. In collaboration with academic departments, the Center supports courses and programs that stress the importance of global citizenship, diversity, leadership, and social justice. The Center strives to make community learning a cornerstone of undergraduate education, through ongoing partnerships with community-based organizations.
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P R O J E C T S AMERICORPS PROGRAMS There are two AmeriCorps scholarship programs available through the Center for Community Learning: JusticeCorps members work with attorneys to provide assistance to self-represented litigants in court-based, selfhelp programs throughout Los Angeles County and Jumpstart is for UCLA undergraduates that promote literacy among preschool students. Students from all majors are welcome to apply for this one-year program with local preschools. For more information, visit the program websites: http://www.uei.ucla.edu/communitylearningjumpstart.htm and http://www.uei.ucla.edu/communitylearningjusticecorps.htm .
ASTIN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT SCHOLARS PROGRAM The Astin Scholars Program supports the work of a select group of students who will conduct research on civic engagement during their senior years. Over the course of a full academic year, students integrate experience gained from internships at community organizations with academic requirements, under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Each scholar will produce a comprehensive research thesis. For more information, visit the program website: http://www.uei.ucla.edu/communitylearningastinscholars.htm
INTERNSHIPS The Community Learning Internships program supports academic credit-bearing internship courses in a variety of academic departments, many of which are open to students from any major. These independent study courses require bi-weekly meetings with a coordinator, weekly journals, and a final research paper. Courses are available during all quarters, including the 10-week Summer Session A. For more information, visit the program website: http://www.uei.ucla.edu/communitylearninginternships.htm
SERVICE LEARNING In Service Learning courses at UCLA, students learn through active participation in thoughtfully organized work within the community that is connected to academic, credit-bearing courses. Service Learning courses are offered through a variety of UCLA departments and are open to all students. Some courses include direct service (e.g. tutoring and mentoring) while others emphasize research as service (e.g. community-based research on the environment or public health). For more information, visit the program website: http://www.uei.ucla.edu/communitylearningservicelearning.htm
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CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGINEERING & DIVERSITY HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE 6291 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 Since 1983, the Center for Excellence in Engineering & Diversity (CEED) has operated pre-college and undergraduate programs designed to recruit, retain, develop, and graduate low-income, underrepresented engineering students. CEED’s mission is to create a community of public-private partnerships that will help urban and underrepresented students succeed in science, technology, engineering, and math curricula. To fulfill its mission, CEED has developed a comprehensive approach to enrich the education of urban student populations across the K–18 spectrum. CEED’s undergraduate program currently supports more than 260 engineering majors. Among the services provided are access to financial support and internships; assistance with clustering to support academic collaboration and high performance; academic and professional workshops; academic-enrichment programs; academic advisement; and the support of three student organizations: the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and the Society of Latino Engineers and Scientists.
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Carollee Howes CONTACT Nancy Lee Sayre Phone: 310-206-4470 Fax: 310-206-1732 sayre@gseis.ucla.edu
CENTER FOR IMPROVING CHILD CARE QUALITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION STUDIES 3302B Moore Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Center for Improving Child Care Quality (CICCQ) in the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies conducts high-quality, policy-relevant research focusing on improving the early care and education environments of young children. CICCQ collaborates with a wide variety of research partners, including small community-based agencies, local government and policy groups, and national research consortia. The Center is directed by Dr. Carollee Howes, a nationally and internationally recognized early childhood expert who has been an advisor on several national studies, including the National Head Start Families and Children’s Experiences project, and a collaborator in several others, including the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, and the Multi-State Study of State Pre-K programs. CICCQ research staff uses expertise in the areas of child development, professional development, child care quality, attachment theory, and observational and survey research methodology to conduct basic and applied research and policy-driven research at the local, state, and national levels.
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CICCQ takes a collaborative approach to the evaluation process, building relationships with our associates to inform research, practice, and professional development. A guiding principle in all our work is that we value listening to the communities in which we work, as well as long-term engagement with those communities. Our evaluations focus on community, agency, family levels, and child levels of analysis. In our applied research and evaluation projects, we apply our extensive knowledge of standardized and adapted assessment and bring our capacity to develop instruments specific to diverse populations. CICCQ personnel possess expertise in research and evaluation, and demonstrate sensitivity to working in diverse communities throughout Los Angeles County, by partnering with schools, community programs, and agencies to improve the lives of children.
P R O J E C T S STEPS TO EXCELLENCE PROJECT The Steps to Excellence Project (STEP) is a pilot project developed by the Policy Roundtable for Child Care and funded by First 5 LA through the Los Angeles County Office of Child Care. Child care centers and family child care homes in nine pilot communities in Los Angeles County can volunteer to be observed and provide information about six areas of their programs’ operations that impact the quality of care: regulatory compliance; teacher/child relationships; learning environment; identification and inclusion of children with special needs; staff qualifications and working conditions; and family and community connections. Based on the information collected, programs will then be assigned a STEP quality rating from 1 to 5. The purposes of STEP are to: • Provide parents with clear, concise information on the quality of individual child care settings; • Create incentives and supports for programs to meet and maintain higher program standards; • Distinguish programs that are meeting these higher standards; • Provide benchmarks to determine if the quality of care in individual programs or communities is improving over time.
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CENTER FOR LABOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 10945 Le Conte Ave., Suite 1103 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Center for Labor Research & Education plays a unique role as a bridge between the university and the labor community in Southern California. As part of the university, the Labor Center serves as an important source of information about unions and workers to interested scholars and students. Through its extensive connections with unions and workers, the Labor Center also provides labor with access to UCLA's resources and programs. An advisory committee comprised of about 40 Southern California labor and community leaders, representing more than one million members in the public and private sectors, provides advice and support for the center. The Labor Center also has a vibrant outreach office just blocks from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, dozens of major union headquarters and worker centers, and is in the heart of a diverse immigrant community. The center is a vital resource for research, education, and policy development to help create jobs that are good for workers and their communities, to improve the quality of existing jobs in the low-wage economy, and to strengthen the process of immigrant integration, especially among students and youth.
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CENTER FOR TEACHING STATISTICS COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 8125 Math Sciences Building Box 951554 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Center for Teaching Statistics (CTS) consists of statisticians and educators interested in improving the quality of statistics education in Southern California and at UCLA. The center has offered courses for local high school teachers and workshops for high school students, and produced a number of resources that serve the larger community. One example is Insight into Statistical Practice, Instruction and Reasoning (INSPIRE), (http://inspire.stat.ucla.edu), a distance-learning course for beginning Advanced Placement Statistics teachers that also provides curriculum materials for anyone interested in teaching teachers or any teachers who wish to teach themselves. The Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) provides a vast array of statistical tools and interactive aids to modernize teaching statistics at the college level. In cooperation with the UCLA Statistical Consulting Center, CTS faculty is available for the evaluation of educational programs or interventions, as well as for short courses, workshops and seminars on topics in statistics education.
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P R O J E C T S DATAFEST An annual undergraduate data analysis competition.
INSIGHT INTO STATISTICAL PRACTICE, INSTRUCTION AND REASONING An NSF-funded project with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the American Statistical Association.
STATISTICAL CONTENT HELPING TO EMPOWER MATHEMATICIANS AT TWOYEAR COLLEGES An NSF-funded project with the Ohio State University and the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS IN STATISTICS EDUCATION A peer-reviewed e-journal for scholarly work on the role of technology in statistical education.
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Fax: 310-825-3883 Dietel@cse.ucla.edu http://www.cse.ucla.edu
dren and adults. CSE and CRESST perform research and evaluation activities supporting a wide variety of clients in public and private sectors, including states, school districts, foundations, and the military. Of particular community note are a series of evaluations of the LA’s BEST after-school program, which have found evidence of positive impact from after-school programs on K-12 outcomes, such as school attendance, mathematics, and lower rates of juvenile crime.
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Deborah Koniak-Griffin CONTACT Deborah Koniak-Griffin Inese Verzemnieks Phone: 310-206-3842 Fax: 310-206-3241 dkoniak@sonnet.ucla.edu, iverzemn@sonnet.ucla.edu http://nursing.ucla.edu/ site.cfm?id=116
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CENTER FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS RESEARCH SCHOOL OF NURSING Factor Building 5-2332 UCLA Campus Los Angeles, CA 90095 Initially established with funding from National Institute of Nursing Research (1999-2009), the mission of the Center for Vulnerable Populations Research (CVPR) is to build nursing and health science aimed at eliminating/reducing health disparities in vulnerable populations. The two population groups identified as particularly vulnerable to health disparities are ethnic/racial minorities and people living in poverty. To most effectively address health disparities, Center researchers work collaboratively and in partnership with communities. The CVPR actively promotes the use of community-based participatory research methods with training through its annual Institute on “Community Partnerships in Participatory Research.� Faculty of the CVRP provide consultation on how to work as partners with community members in all phases of research and to jointly identify problems, design and implement interventions, and evaluate and disseminate outcomes.
P R O J E C T S COMMON GROUNDS Common Grounds is a community-based research group in Santa Monica.
FRIENDS COMMUNITY CENTER Friends Community Center is a research partnership in Hollywood.
HEALTHY AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES Healthy African American Families coordinates community-based committees on diabetes and preterm birth.
HIV AND HPV RESEARCH AND EDUCATION HIV and HPV research and education at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center.
PARA LOS NINOS Para Los Ninos is a school-based community study on obesity and asthma among Latino students.
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Center X is a community of educators working to transform public schooling to create a more equitable, humane, and just society. Center X provides a unique setting where researchers and practitioners collaborate to design and conduct programs that prepare and support K-12 teachers and leaders in urban schools. Center X carries out its work through four programs: the Teacher Education Program, Principal Leadership Insti-
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tute, School-University Partnerships, and Professional Development Programs designed and implemented by the California Subject Matter Projects. These programs are guided by a series of conceptual principles that prepare and support educators to have the commitment, capacity, and resilience to promote social justice, caring, and instructional equity in underperforming urban schools.
P R O J E C T S CALIFORNIA READING & LITERATURE PROJECT The California Reading & Literature Project (CRLP) works to improve student achievement in grades pre-K–12 by providing teachers with high-quality professional and leadership training that deepens their content knowledge and pedagogy skills in accordance with the State Board of Education Standards and the California Reading/Language Arts Framework. The CRLP seeks to create a bridge between the theoretical, academic world of the university and the practical world of classrooms and students, allowing teachers to develop and improve both their own teaching practices and their students’ achievement. In order to meet the reading needs of California’s diverse student population, an important focus of CRLP’s work has been California’s English language learner population. Included in CRLP’s in-service models are institutes directed to the needs of students and teachers in English-language development and bilingual programs. Schools implementing our professional development programs have seen a strong rise in test scores and greater student achievement. Teachers leave our programs feeling rejuvenated and inspired to work more successfully with students.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECT The mission of the Computer Science Project is to increase and enhance the computer science learning opportunities in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and to broaden the participation of AfricanAmerican, Latino/a, and female students in learning computer science. To do so, we have founded a K-12/university partnership, which is working on changes at multiple levels: • Technical (curriculum, professional development, counselor education); • Belief systems (stereotypes about what type of student can do computer science, low expectations); and • Political (policy changes that must occur to institutionalize computer science learning at the high school level, especially in schools with high numbers of students of color).
While we partner to deepen the capacity of LAUSD to support these reforms, we are developing a model and repository of best practices that can help spread and inform similar efforts in other school districts. Our work is funded by three National Science Foundation grants spearheaded by the work of Jane Margolis and others. The Into the Loop grant has funded the research of the work which led to the development of the Exploring Computer Science course currently taken by over 1,000 students in LAUSD and expanding to other districts across the country. Our Teachers are Key grant funds our coaching program in which computer science coaches work one-on-one with computer science teachers to support and develop their craft for the goals of student engagement and learning. We have recently been awarded the Mobilize grant to promote the development of computational thinking and inquiry in math, science, and computer science via participatory sensing campaigns and projects. Visit our project website (http://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/computer-science-proj) to learn the latest with Exploring Computer Science and our work to democratize computer science education.
HISTORY-GEOGRAPHY PROJECT The UCLA History-Geography Project is committed to building a network of teacher-scholars devoted to enhancing social science and history education in the Los Angeles region. As one of the sites of the California History-Social Science Project (CH-SSP), our community includes individuals from different school districts, institutional settings, disciplines, and grade levels. By focusing on the complementary fields of history and geography, we bring together educators who often work in separate worlds and professional cultures to build bridges between groups. This is particularly important in a city as diverse as Los Angeles. The History-Geography Project’s professional development activities are based on the California History-Social Science Standards, and its programs include a scholar-teacher series, an English Language Learner/literacy institute, specialized history institutes, and geography training. We believe strongly that a quality social science education is an integral part of a well-rounded curriculum.
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INTO THE LOOP Into the Loop is a three-year National Science Foundation project (2008-11) that seeks to deepen the capacity of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to offer and support high-quality, college preparatory computer science classes to African-American and Latino students. The mission of the project is to increase access to rigorous learning in high schools with high numbers of African-American and Latino students; change culture and practice at the school and district level to broaden participation in computing, and develop a computer science reform model that can inform similar efforts to other school districts and states. At the heart of Into the Loop is a strategic university/K-12 partnership, the Computer Science Equity Alliance, composed of university educational researchers, university computer scientists, and high school district science leaders. This alliance has initiated the development and distribution of innovative computer science curricular materials; is working at the district level to impact policies that affect computer science teaching and learning; has increased access to college-preparatory computer science classes, especially in schools with high concentrations of students of color; and has offered professional development for teachers and monthly student support programs. The research foundation of Into the Loop is a five-year research investigation of computer science learning opportunities in LAUSD. The story of this research—a case study of how inequality is produced and how fields become segregated—is told in "Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing" (MIT Press, 2008).
MATHEMATICS PROJECT The UCLA Mathematics Project (UCLAMP) is committed to providing professional development programs that strengthen and deepen content knowledge, enhance and expand teaching strategies, and develop the leadership capabilities of teachers of mathematics in the Los Angeles area. UCLAMP works primarily with K–12 teachers in urban, low-performing schools where many teachers are underprepared to teach mathematics. UCLAMP’s goal is to provide opportunities for teachers to improve the quality of teaching, and thereby increase the opportunity for students to succeed in their study of mathematics. Over the last year, UCLAMP has worked with 138 teachers for a total of 270 hours. Forty-three percent of the teachers work at low-performing schools. UCLAMP served 110 K-12 schools. Of those schools, 56 percent were low-performing schools.
NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) Project offers both a one-year and a twoyear program for teachers seeking certification. The project includes a four-day summer institute at UCLA with monthly meetings throughout the year as well as school-site based cohorts supported by the Professional Teaching Development Center (PTDC), a grant-based NBPTS program. Currently, the UCLA NBPTS Project supports over 75 Los Angeles area educators becoming National Board Certified (NBC) teachers. According to a 2008 study by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, “students taught by NBC Teachers make higher gains on achievement tests than those taught by teachers who have not applied and those who did not achieve certification” (NBPTS). Furthermore, UCLA NBC teachers continue in their professional growth beyond certification in learning how to impact local, state, and national policy and becoming Candidate Support Providers in order to help future NBC candidates.
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PARENT PROJECT The Parent Project brings together parents of diverse ethnic backgrounds to share their expertise and to experience interactive California Framework presentations. Parents have an opportunity to question principals, visit classrooms, and explore assessment practices and standards. The participants then design action plans to implement change at their school sites. Parents join educators as a necessary part of professional development that will improve school for all children. The Parent Project has supported the leadership development of hundreds of parents who are presently serving in key positions in schools and school districts in working toward school reform all across Los Angeles County.
PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE The Principal Leadership Institute (PLI) recruits, prepares, and supports a diverse group of individuals committed to the principles of academic excellence, equity, and integrity as a way to maximize achievement and opportunity for students in urban schools. The PLI at UCLA has designed a rigorous 15-month program that will prepare the next generation of urban school leaders. The program grants a master’s degree and completion of the courses required for the California Tier 1 Administrative Credential. A program of the PLI is the UCLA Principal’s Center, which brings together principals and aspiring principals in a safe and supportive environment for collegial conversations once a quarter that explore directions in leadership. The majority of the 300 PLI alumni are serving in the most underserved schools in the Los Angeles area.
SCIENCE PROJECT The Science Project facilitates a number of institutes for K–12 teachers throughout the year. All the institutes consist of science content, academic language development, and effective instructional strategies geared to increase student achievement in science classrooms. All the content sessions are based on the California Science and English Language Development Content Standards. Previous leadership institutes have focused on nanotechnology and physics for ninth- and tenth-grade teachers; science content and language development for fourth- and fifth-grade teachers; and secondary literacy issues for high school teachers.
TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM The Center X Teacher Education Program (TEP) provides high quality pre-service education and beginning teacher support to radically improve urban schooling in racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities in the greater Los Angeles area. We also engage our students in a variety of community-based projects and field experiences to encourage their commitment to teach in urban schools, develop their community knowledge, and create a culturally responsive pedagogy. There are three pathways in TEP: a credential/masters option; an undergrad/graduate option in science and math and music; and an intern option. We have prepared close to 2,000 teachers in Multiple Subjects, and the following single subjects: math, science, English, social science, and physical education. We have a very high teacher retention rate, and many of our graduates seek advanced degrees in education.
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WRITING PROJECT The UCLA Writing Project (UCLAWP) provides a professional home for K–12 and university educators to share expertise and continue their professional development and lifelong learning. At Writing Project institutes, teacher/participants demonstrate model-teaching strategies, write and share their writing, and discuss current language-arts issues, such as standardized testing and Advanced Placement opportunities. The project also offers workshops and discussions for teachers of second-language students, including teaching analytical writing to English language learners and teaching language arts in Spanish. In the summer, the project offers writing workshops for students. The UCLAWP began in 1977 and is currently one of the largest and most active of 200 writing projects across the county. Thousands of teachers have improved their practices as a result of participating in a UCLAWP program.
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CityLAB at UCLA is a science education program run by UCLA undergraduate and graduate students to introduce underrepresented and disadvantaged high school students in the Los Angeles area to the rapidly developing world of biotechnology in a hands-on laboratory experience. At the same time, it provides a forum for UCLA students to gain mentoring experience as undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs), while learning effective teaching skills by explaining science concepts to the high school students and guiding them through a two to three-hour laboratory experiment. The UCLA students may be registered for credit or serve as vol-
Phone: 310-794-6125 Fax: 310-825-8959 citylabatucla@gmail.com citylabprogramming@gmail.com http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/ citylab/index.html
unteers. The CityLAB at UCLA program is operated under the auspices of the UCLA Undergraduate Research Center (URC), the Center for Academic and Research Excellence (CARE), and the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. Currently, 40 UCLA students enroll each quarter as TAs and eight UCLA students serve on the staff each year. Approximately 50 different high school students attend each Saturday session, which runs from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. There are four Saturday sessions per quarter. Through funding from the Community Activities Committee (CAC), CityLAB at UCLA provides free bus transportation and lunch for the high school students.
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DENTAL POST – BACCALAUREATE PREP PROGRAM DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Office of Academic Enrichment & Outreach 13-154 Center for Health Sciences Los Angeles, CA 90095 In conjunction with UCLA Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Enrichment Program, the School of Medicine provides an academic-enrichment program for approximately 10-15 promising disadvantaged pre-dental students who have completed their bachelor’s degrees. This program is conducted on the UCLA campus over seven weeks during the summer and is sponsored by The California Endowment.
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION STUDIES GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION STUDIES Moore Hall Box 951521 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Department of Information Studies (IS) is committed to combining research on information organization and access with practical applications of that knowledge in the community. IS maintains active links with the local community and is committed to expanding the cultural diversity of its students, faculty, and staff. It works closely with ethnic minority organizations in the Los Angeles area to achieve its objectives. It strives to make its recruitment, teaching, and curriculum relevant to the needs of a rapidly changing community. IS supports a unique blend of professional and scholarly programs and perspectives that honor and address our mission to prepare information professionals and researchers for rewarding and challenging careers in our pluralistic and changing world, both locally and globally. IS maintains many active links with local community organizations such as libraries, archives, and other information centers. IS also works closely with ethnic minority groups to address their information needs, and is committed to expanding the diversity of its student body.
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P R O J E C T S BLACK CAUCUS MENTORING PROGRAM Information Studies (IS) and the California Librarians Black Caucus/Greater Los Angeles (with a grant from the California State Library) have designed a recruitment and mentoring program to encourage promising African American students to apply to IS for the master’s program in library and information science, and to provide them with a supportive environment at IS.
FRANCES CLARKE SAYERS LECTURE Each year, a prominent author or illustrator of children’s books is invited to speak at the Sayers lecture series. The series was started in memory of the late library and information science professor, an advocate for excellence in children’s literature. Lectures are free and open to the public. Authors are available for book signings after each lecture.
REACH OUT AND READ ALOUD Reach Out and Read Aloud brings volunteer readers to children’s hospitals and health centers in Los Angeles. Trained by library professionals, our dedicated and enthusiastic UCLA volunteers show children that reading is fun; introduce children and parents to a range of high-quality children’s books; and model, for both parents and caregivers, the techniques of reading aloud. For more information about Reach Out and Read Aloud, visit www.reachoutandread.org.
READING CHANGES LIVES Since 2004, graduate students from the Department of Information Studies have volunteered their services at the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Detention Facility in Sylmar. Students conduct book drives and work with community partners to collect and deliver reading materials to all youth within the facility. They also provide reading inspiration via book discussion groups to dozens of incarcerated youth. Improved reading skills enhance writing abilities, which may motivate kids when they are released to return to school rather than to juvenile hall.
REFORMA-UCLA MENTOR PROGRAM IS maintains a close link with the Los Angeles Latino community by sponsoring programs with the Reforma organization, designed to encourage applications to IS by Latino and bilingual students. The program also mentors Latino students in the schools. Special programs include interviews with Latino leaders and taped talk shows with successful Latino IS graduates.
SENIOR FELLOWS PROGRAM Every other summer, IS hosts an executive program for leaders in academic and research libraries. The program began in 1982.
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EARLY ACADEMIC OUTREACH PROGRAMS UCLA STUDENT AFFAIRS 220 Westwood Plaza B10 Student Activities Center Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) is an academic preparation program established in 1976 by the University of California to expand postsecondary education opportunities for California’s educationally disadvantaged students. EAOP works with students to help them become competitively eligible applicants for college admission, going beyond minimum eligibility. EAOP works collaboratively with families, educators, schools, communities, and various campus departments to provide pre-college students with challenging academic enrichment activities to promote and cultivate a college-going culture. EAOP is one of the state’s most successful pre-collegiate student academic development programs. EAOP works with over 15,000 students in middle school and high school each year. This includes working with 80 schools in 10 school districts. Since 1991, approximately 60 percent of EAOP seniors meet UC eligibility each year, 82 percent attend a postsecondary institution upon high school graduation and 62 percent attend a four-year institution, with 25 percent attending a UC school.
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Edmond R. Hewlett CONTACT Edmond R. Hewlett Phone: 310-825-7097 Fax: 310-825-2536 ehewlett@dentistry.ucla.edu
INCREASING THE PIPELINE FOR INDIVIDUALS PURSUING ORAL HEALTH CAREERS SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY 10833 Le Conte Ave. CHS Los Angeles, CA 90024 The School of Dentistry engages in a number of programs and outreach activities to increase the average number of economically and/or educationally disadvantaged students who enroll in California dental schools in recognition of the fact that the dental profession remains among the least diverse of the health professions. Some activities are designed to attract individuals to dentistry or oral health and scientific research, and others are designed to help promising individuals improve their standing as potential dental school applicants. There are four separate programs serving four distinct populations: high school students, college students, and post-college students.
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UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education & Access (IDEA) is a research institute seeking to understand and challenge pervasive racial and social class inequalities in education. In addition to conducting independent research and policy analysis, IDEA supports educators, public officials, advocates, community activists, and young people as they design, conduct, and use research to make high-quality public schools and successful college participation routine occurrences in all communities. IDEA also studies how research combines with
Carolyn Castelli Phone: 310-825-7407 Fax: 310-206-8770 idea@ucla.edu http://www.idea.gseis.ucla.edu
strategic communications and public engagement to promote widespread participation in civic life. IDEA's research focuses on such varied topics as 1) equity litigation seeking to provide prepared teachers and adequate facilities, resources, and learning opportunities to schools serving disadvantaged students; 2) the impact of school resources, structure and culture on the school success and college access of African-American and Latino/a students; 3) activities through which parents and community members hold the education system accountable for ensuring quality and equity; 4) support for urban teachers seeking to become leaders of reform networks; developers of community-based urban curriculum; advocates for students; and organizers for teacher-community reform alliances; 5) efforts to increase college access, retention, and success of low-income students of color; and 6) the role of youth research in developing academic and civic skills and shaping public policy.
P R O J E C T S INTO THE LOOP Into the Loop is a three-year National Science Foundation project (2008-11) which seeks to deepen the capacity of the Los Angeles Unified School District to offer and support high-quality, college preparatory computer science classes. The mission of the project is to: increase access to rigorous learning in high schools with high numbers of African American and Latino students; change culture and practice at the school and district level to broaden participation in computing; and develop a computer science reform model that can inform similar efforts to other school districts and states. At the heart of Into the Loop is a strategic university/K-12 partnership, the Computer Science Equity Alliance, composed of university educational researchers, university computer scientists, and high school district science leaders. This alliance has initiated: 1) the development and distribution of innovative computer science curricular materials; 2) working at the district level to impact policies that effect computer science teaching and learning; 3) increased access to college-preparatory computer science classes especially in schools with high concentrations of students of color; 4) has offered professional development for teachers and 5) monthly student support programs.
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The research foundation of Into the Loop is a five-year research investigation of computer science learning opportunities in LAUSD. The story of this research—a case study of how inequality is produced and how fields become segregated—is told in the newly-published Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (MIT Press, 2008).
JUST SCHOOLS CALIFORNIA Policy makers, researchers, reporters, and community groups look to IDEA as a key source for information about conditions and outcomes in California’s public schools. Just Schools California is a joint project of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education & Access (UCLA/IDEA), and UCLA’s Program in Public Interest Law and Policy (PILP). Just Schools California supports a broad-based coalition of community-based groups, youth organizations, civil rights advocates, teachers, researchers, and policymakers eager to participate actively in providing Californians — especially low-income students, English learners, African-American and Latino students —with high quality schools. We provide research necessary for understanding the conditions and outcomes of California schools and analyzing the impact of state policies. We also facilitate the deliberation and policymaking capacities of reform-minded groups and with the broader public through the media to ensure all students have access to an education that prepares them for citizenship, college, and a career. The project’s goal is to inform and support changes in the state’s governance, funding, data, and accountability mechanisms, such that all California students have an opportunity to succeed in a rigorous, standards-based educational system.
LINKED LEARNING Pathways to College, Career and Civic Participation. IDEA supports and studies educational innovations that promise to correct persistent educational inequalities. Central to this work is understanding how all sectors of the public can promote high-quality schooling in their communities and across the state. Linked Learning (formerly multiple pathways) is an educational approach that prepares all students for college, career and civic participation and challenges prevailing patterns of school stratification. Based on our own and others’ work, we believe that Linked Learning can create better and broader outcomes for all students and can be especially helpful for students most at risk for failure and dropping out. Since 2006, IDEA has been conducting research with the goal of: • Investigating and identifying the potential and the challenges associated with a Linked Learning approach to high school improvement in California; • Producing trustworthy, useful, and nonpartisan research and guidance to policymakers and educators about Linked Learning in California high schools, and • Providing research assistance and guidance to community partners engaged in increasing an understanding of Linked Learning among students, parents and educators.
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IDEA will conduct 10 case studies of schools and programs throughout the state that have either successfully implemented this approach or demonstrated a commitment to it. All of the schools have or will have implemented key Linked Learning elements, such as integration of career and academic curriculum, real-world learning experiences, student engagement and student support services.
ORGANIZED LAB OR AND SCHOOL REFORM This project examines the potential of unions to promote educational justice. In Los Angeles, many members of low-wage service sector unions are also parents of children in public schools. A disproportionate number of these workers live in neighborhoods where the local public schools provide inadequate educational resources. In recent years, sectors of organized labor such as the Service Employees International Union Local 1877 (Justice for Janitors) have demonstrated the ability to win important gains in salary and benefits for their membership. This project explores the potential role of low-wage service unions to use their organizing and political skills to promote educational justice. It considers whether the participation of low-wage sector unions in educational reform can: (1) build the power and capacity of both the union and its members, and (2) expand educational opportunities for the children of union members. Over the past two years, IDEA researchers have begun to: • Develop a profile of low-wage service sector members and the schools their children attend; • Examine union members’ involvement in their children’s schools and their interest in school reform; • Explore how various sectors of labor and community groups look upon the potential role of service sector unions in educational reform. Alongside these research efforts, IDEA has worked with the Service Employees International Union Local 1877 in Los Angeles to design and implement a series of educational workshops for its members. These workshops provide 1877 members with information about how the school system works, how parents can support their children’s paths to college, and how parents can take action to improve conditions in their children’s schools.
THE COUNCIL OF YOUTH RESEARCH IDEA’s Council of Youth Research partners with Los Angeles high school students, teachers, and administrators to examine educational conditions in the city. The Council of Youth Research is a partnership between UCLA IDEA and Los Angeles high school students. The council provides students the avenues and tools with which to research and shed light on school and community issues that directly affect them. Council members are current Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) high school students who combine their personal life experiences with graduate-level research techniques to examine central questions impacting the lives of district students. The youth researchers have worked closely with LAUSD administrators, as well as the office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Council members report their findings to officials and the broader public throughout the year.
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The Council of Youth Research: • Promotes a powerful model of civic education where youth learn about the rules and functions of government and acquire tools of investigation and public engagement that will be useful in future academic and civic endeavors; • Contributes valuable insights and information to public debate in Los Angeles through students’ first-hand experience in schools and communities as well as their uncensored access to other youth voices; and, • Broadens and enriches Los Angeles civic life by infusing youth voices into the public conversation and counters low levels of voting and other forms of civic participation among Los Angeles youth.
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LOS ANGELES PHYSICS TEACHERS ALLIANCE GROUP COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 1000 Veteran Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Los Angeles Physics Teachers Alliance Group (LAPTAG) is an outreach program for high school and community college students. It has been a vibrant program since 1993. LAPTAG has a dedicated plasma physics laboratory for participating high school/community college students at 1000 Veteran Avenue. All students, as well their teachers, are welcome. The venue consists of lectures in plasma physics, mathematics, and electronics, and hands-on experiments in plasma physics. The experiments involve plasma waves and beams in plasma and other basic plasma phenomena. Students learn about vacuum technology and plasma sources; build probes and electrical circuits; and analyze data using software packages used by the scientific community. The students have published articles in scientific journals and have given presentations at scientific meetings (the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), Occidental teachers meeting, etc). LAPTAG meets every Saturday in the winter, and students participate throughout the summer. Membership in LAPTAG, as well as the use of all the scientific equipment, is free. LAPTAG is part of the basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA. The Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF) and LAPTAG are funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
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The Megan E. Daly Infant Development Program (IDP) is designed as a teaching and research facility for the Department of Psychology. IDP is set up to accommodate both the cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation of infants, toddlers, their parents, and their caregivers. IDP hosts, on average, one faculty or graduate student research project per quarter. IDP also hosts one to two courses per quarter of students completing developmental assignments through our observation rooms. IDP offers field internships for the Applied Devel-
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opmental Psychology (ADP) minor, which provides an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students in developmental psychology and other areas to acquire firsthand experience working with infants and toddlers in a group setting. As a laboratory child care center, IDP offers quality group care for infants and toddlers of the students, staff, and faculty of the Department of Psychology and other departments on the UCLA campus. IDP has two classrooms, each with an observation room that includes sound and visual access. IDP was established in May 1983, with one classroom in Franz Hall; a second classroom in the Fernald building was built with a $1 million First 5 LA grant in 2003 to provide a state-of-the-art child care center and research facility. IDP serves 25 infants and toddlers and their parents each year and has trained an average of 35 students per year through the ADP program. The program accommodates children age 3 months to 3 years old, operating year-round from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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The National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) operates as the K-12 outreach effort of the History Department. NCHS was founded in 1988 to build a bridge between K-12 history teachers and academic historians. After several years, NCHS took on the task of coordinating the development of the National History Standards. The working model during the development of the standards was to partner academic historians
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with experienced classroom teachers. On a national level, NCHS has supported K-12 history education by continuing this model to develop standards-based curricular materials that engage students in exciting explorations of United States and world history. NCHS maintains a growing catalogue of more than 80 primarysource U.S. and world teaching units for schools around the country. In addition, its history standards continue to be widely cited in history curriculum, especially in online lessons. NCHS has also sponsored community projects such as the documentary film “The Roots of El Pueblo,� which reviews the multicultural history of Los Angeles.U.S.
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In addition to past projects, NCHS is currently supporting the K-12 history teaching community with (a) professional development for K-12 history teachers; (b) partnerships with local schools; (c) internship and volunteer opportunities for UCLA undergraduates interested in pursuing K-12 teaching as a career; (d) two history curriculum projects focused on California native tribes; (e) continued development and sponsorship of the freely available online curriculum “World History for Us All.”
P R O J E C T S LOCAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT The National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) works directly with more than 100 Los Angeles area teachers each year in workshops and programs to promote history content knowledge. In the last decade, NCHS has partnered with nearly a dozen “Teaching American History” grants in the Los Angeles area (El Monte Unified School District, Los Angeles County Office of Education, and Los Angeles Unified School District) to provide professional development for K-12 history teachers. UCLA history professors lend key support to these efforts, serving as speakers and advisors. During 2010-2011, NCHS hosted three Saturday workshops for a coalition of local teachers on United States and world history topics. With funding from the UC Humanities Research Institute, these workshops will continue with two more workshops on the legacy of segregated Los Angeles and training history teachers to help their students collect oral histories.
LOCAL SCHOOL CONNECTIONS From 2004-2012,NCHS served as college connection partner for the American Studies Academy (ASA) at Franklin High School. During this time, NCHS offered several programs for the students, including primary source workshops, classroom visits by UCLA professors, lectures for Franklin students on the UCLA campus followed by campus tours, and visits to local history-related museums. Graduates from this inner-city, marginally achieving school have gone on to Georgetown University, Mills College, Bryn Mawr College, Smith College, University of the Pacific, many California State campuses, and several University of California campuses. More impressively, over half of the Class of 2010 went on to four-year colleges. In 2013, two former ASA participants were 2013 CSU Trustee Award winners: Luis Antezana (Franklin ’10) at Cal State LA and Victoria Munguia (Franklin ’08) at Humboldt State. In 2010, NCHS partnered with veteran teachers from the ASA to apply for one of the new campuses under the LAUSD program of Public School Choice. That school—The School of History and Dramatic Arts (SoDHA)—is now one of the five small schools at the new Sonya Sotomayor campus in the Glassell/Cypress Park neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles. The school opened in fall of 2011 and NCHS has continued supporting the school. The first Gary B. Nash graduate fellow in public history conducted a program which allowed all the students to create projects for a schoolwide History Day fair with judging by community members and UCLA undergraduate and graduate students.
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UCLA GRADUATE STUDENTS Gary B. Nash Award in Public History was established in 2012. During the award period, the awardee designs and implements an original public history project in collaboration with the support of the department’s Public History Initiatives. The project may involve K-12 education or foster rigorous historical thinking and analysis beyond the academy. Brian Kovalesky, the recipient of the 2012-13 award, worked with a team of graduate student volunteers to guide students at the School of History and Dramatic Arts to create innovative entries for the National History Day competition. NCHS also has provided opportunities for UCLA graduate students to publish and edit history materials. For example, in 2011, the NCHS graduate assistant co-edited two teaching units ("Home Lands: How Women Made the West" and "In Search of Juan Rodríguez") and one book ("Bring History Alive!: A Sourcebook for Teaching United States History").
UNDERGRADUATE INTERN PROGRAM Through the Center for Community Learning, NCHS offers for-credit internships for history majors interested in pursuing K-12 teaching as a career. Interns work on producing curriculum, supporting local teachers and students with research, and/or observing and helping in local schools. The NCHS intern program is now a part of the larger HistoryCorps program (see the Public History Initiative).
WORLD HISTORY FOR US ALL World History for Us All (http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu) (WHFUA) is an ongoing project supported by the Ahmanson Foundation. WHFUA offers a free online curriculum for middle and high school history teachers with a unique global perspective as well as a reader, "World History, The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students," that tells the world's history in 96 pages.
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The Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA seeks to bring together scholars and critics of Freire’s pedagogy in permanent dialogue to foster the advancement of new pedagogical theories and concrete interventions in the real world. Our objective is to combine research, teaching, and technology while concentrating on teacher training, the politics of education, the philosophy of education, critical pedagogy, comparative and international education, social justice education, activism, and adult education.
Carlos Alberto Torres Phone: 310-206-1649 Fax: 310-206-6859 ctorres@gseis.ucla.edu pfi@gseis.ucla.edu http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org
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PUBLIC HISTORY INITIATIVE COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 6265 Bunche Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 In July 2012, the UCLA Department of History established the UCLA Public History Initiative to formalize an already growing trend within the department to forge the meaningful engagement of professional historians within the public sphere. At the center of the department’s public history initiative stands the National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS). Leading the national standards movement during the late 1980s and, since then, pioneering the model of bringing together academic historians and K-12 teachers to create curriculum and conduct teacher workshops, the National Center for History in the Schools has been a national leader in K-12 history education for more than 25 years. The UCLA Public History Initiative is proud to be the institutional home of the National Center for History in the Schools. In addition to NCHS, the UCLA Public History Initiative creates opportunities for the department’s undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members to participate in historical debates and discussions beyond the university. "The Why History Matters" series includes lectures, print editorials, and video responses by faculty members on contemporary issues. The History Corps program creates internship and volunteer opportunities for our graduate and undergraduate students to apply their historical-thinking skills beyond the classroom. The Teaching Excellence program trains our graduate and undergraduate students to become extraordinary history educators capable of engaging broad and diverse audiences. Finally, our Community Engagement programs offer workshops for history educators to learn about cutting-edge historical research and include a unique partnership with the School for History and Dramatic Arts, which is the only high school in Los Angeles to pursue historical thinking across its curriculum.
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STATISTICAL CONSULTING CENTER COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 8125 Math Sciences Building Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Statistical Consulting Center (SCC) consists of graduate student consultants and statistics faculty whose mission is to promote the conduct of quality research and sound statistical analysis on campus and in the community. We accomplish our goals by helping individuals and institutions in developing appropriate statistical designs and statistical analyses. The Center also offers free walk-in consulting for UCLA faculty and staff, free e-consulting and statistical consulting for off-campus organizations, and mini-courses that are designed to provide statistical training in various statistical topics and statistical software. For a detailed list of services offered by the Center and sample projects, please visit http://scc.stat.ucla.edu.
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Established in 1945, The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) supports faculty and graduate student research on employment and labor topics in a variety of academic disciplines on both local and global scales. Current research focuses on shifting patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration; their impact on social relations in the workplace, unemployment and the recession; the global labor movement; and characteristics of the Los Angeles workforce. The Institute sponsors colloquia, conferences and
Chris Tilly Phone: 310-206-4064 Fax: 310-206-4064 uclairle@irle.ucla.edu http://www.irle.ucla.edu/
other public programming; is home to the undergraduate minor in Labor and Workplace Studies at UCLA; and carries out educational outreach on workplace issues to constituencies outside the university. The Institute is made up of four units: The IRLE Academic Unit, the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education (Labor Center), the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, and the Human Resources Round Table.
P R O J E C T S BENJAMIN AARON LABOR LAW LECTURE This lecture series is held annually in honor of Benjamin Aaron (1915-2007) who was a leading expert on U.S. and comparative labor law. The event is organized through a partnership with the Los Angeles County Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section.
COLLOQUIA SERIES Institute for Research on Labor and Employment hosts a colloquia series, open to the public and campus community, throughout the academic year. Guest speakers in the series include academics and practitioners from UCLA, Los Angeles, the United States and abroad. Topics are wide-ranging and can include economic, legal and sociological themes.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UCLA is part of a national initiative to provide lifelong learning opportunities to serve the intellectual and cultural interests of adults age 50 and above. Members enroll in courses such as Spanish for Everyday Life; Our Universe: The Known and the Unknown; The Hidden History of the Beatles; Great Books Salon; Sex and Religion; and History of Baseball.
Lynda Wilson Phone: 310-825-7093 Fax: 310-206-5066 Lwilson@uclaextension.edu http://www.uclaextension.edu/osher
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THE PHILIP C. CURTIS JR. CENTER FOR MATHEMATICS AND TEACHING COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 2341 Mathematical Science Building
CONTACT Heather Dallas Phone: 310-825-4096 Fax: 310-267-4451 dallas@math.ucla.edu
Box 951555 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Built on the UCLA Mathematical Department’s strong tradition of involvement in the entire spectrum of mathematical activity, from pre-collegiate mathematics to advanced current research, The Philips C. Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematical and Teaching exists to further high-quality K-12 mathematical activity and mathematics education research. The Curtis Center is dedicated to developing and supporting quality mathematics programs that interface with the K-16 community, including outreach programs for K-12 students, continuing education programs for K-12 teachers and mathematics teacher-preparation programs for UCLA undergraduates.
P R O J E C T S CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EVALUATION, STANDARDS & STUDENT TESTING ONTOLOGY A team from the Curtis Center is currently collaborating with UCLA's Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards & Student Testing on a Gates-funded grant to develop an ontology of the K-12 mathematics content. The ontology will serve to format an online interface usable by K-12 mathematics education stakeholders. The interface aims to show users' assessment and classroom tasks, Common Core standards, and instructional video related to hundreds of K-12 mathematics topics. Users will also be able to access maps of the K-12 curriculum that demonstrate a variety of relationships between pieces of mathematics content and suggested learning progressions.
MATHEMATICS CONTENT PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS The Mathematics Content Program for Teachers (MCPT) provides mathematics courses for the professional development of K-12 teachers. The MCPT flagship program is a series of 12 courses that can be applied toward a Subject Matter Authorization to teach middle school. MCPT also offers custom-tailored professional development for mathematics departments.
THE EXECUTIVE STATEWIDE OFFICE OF THE CALIFORNIA MATHEMATICS PROJECT The California Mathematics Project (CMP) is one of nine California Subject Matter Projects funded by the state through the UC Office of the President. The Executive Statewide Office oversees and coordinates the activities of 19 CMP sites located throughout California. The CMP provides professional development programs that give K-12 teachers of mathematics the opportunity to strengthen and deepen their mathematical knowledge, to enhance and expand their teaching strategies, and to develop their leadership capabilities.
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THE LOS ANGELES MATHEMATICS CIRCLE The Los Angeles Mathematics Circle brings middle and high school students together each week to do and learn mathematics. The Circle is free to all, and university mathematicians and mathematics educators lead the sessions. Students learn mathematics not covered in the typical school curriculum and become actively engaged in problem solving.
THE UCLA SITE OF THE MATHEMATICS DIAGNOSTIC TESTING PROJECT Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project (MDTP) is a joint CSU/UC project. MDTP’s Workgroup develops diagnostic tests that measure student readiness for courses from pre-algebra to calculus. MDTP’s ten regional sites make these tests and associated written response materials available to California mathematics teachers. Each regional site scores these tests and provides diagnostic test result reports. These reports help teachers and students focus on topics and skills, and provides understanding that will increase the chances of student success. MDTP is the regional site that serves Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
UCLA CALTEACH-MATH UCLA CalTeach-Math is an undergraduate program with a goal is annually graduate 40 high quality, California credential program-ready mathematics teacher candidates. The program prepares undergraduates for careers in teaching mathematics through early field experiences, coursework focused on the mathematical and pedagogical knowledge necessary for teaching secondary school mathematics, career guidance, professional networking activities, and a number of scholarships.
UCLA MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS The UCLA Mathematics Institute for Young Scholars (MIYS) is a four-week summer-day program for secondary students interested in mathematics. The Institute focuses on mathematics outside the typical school curriculum and consists of course lectures taught by UCLA faculty, course problem solving sessions led by UCLA graduate students, and plenary seminars on a variety of topics.
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The UC-CEIN keeps the public informed of its research, as well as the benefits and risks of nanotechnology, through public forums at the Santa Monica Public Library, the California Science Center, and on the UCLA campus.
Catherine Nameth Phone: 310-983-3243 Fax: 310-825-9433 cnameth@cnsi.ucla.edu http://www.cein.ucla.edu
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UC LINKS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION STUDIES 1032 A Moore Hall Room 1032 A Los Angeles, CA 90095 University-Community Links (UC Links) is a network of university and community partners, working together to create and sustain innovative after-school programs. UC Links sites bring underserved K-12 youth together with university students in guided activities that engage their minds and connect them to each other, their communities, and the world around them. UC Links fosters university-community engagement and develops sustainable after-school programs throughout California. In the process, it serves to integrate the University's three-fold mission of research, teaching, and community service. UC Links is one of several Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnership (SAPEP) programs supported by the University of California Office of the President. UCLA's UC Links site is the UCLA Community School, a pilot school in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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UCLA ANDERSON EXECUTIVE EDUCATION ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT 110 Westwood Plaza, Suite A101 Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA has been in the business of executive education since 1954. Each year, the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Office of Executive Education Program hosts nearly 2,000 executives from every continent and nearly 50 countries. We conduct more than 40 programs annually, incorporating the most recent innovations in management education and business technology. Offerings include custom programs tailored to organizations’ specific business objectives and open-enrollment programs that focus on leadership, management and strategic vision. Each program delivers a unique combination of global management perspective, leadership acumen, and strategic-thinking skills designed to help executives successfully lead their organizations in the ever-changing information economy. Our executive education programs rely heavily on UCLA Anderson’s acclaimed faculty, which includes some of the most outstanding educators and researchers from the academic and business worlds.
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P R O J E C T S AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE African American executives experience the workplace in ways both similar to and divergent from the mainstream population. The isolation and frustration many African American managers experience in their careers have tremendous implications for their long-range success and for the success of those who follow them. UCLA’s annual African American Leadership Institute distills the wisdom and experience of the nation’s top African American corporate leaders and public figures, and identifies the tools required to prepare today’s African American executives for tomorrow’s organizational leadership. The institute does a deep dive into management and leadership issues from the perspective of the African American manager. Strategic in content and applied in nature, the African American Leadership Institute is a five-month leadership journey, anchored by a three-day, on-campus session during month three. Participants engage virtually during months one, two, four, and five, and participate in Web conferences, assessments, and coaching, taking away an action plan to increase productivity, leverage, and value within their organizations.
CHANGE MANAGEMENT: IMPROVISE CREATIVE SOLUTIONS This one-day program enhances the skills of those who manage in chaotic, ultra-competitive, and rapidly changing business environments. Discussion topics include change management from the individual, team, and organization levels. The session draws on cases and research from psychology, organizational theory, and behavioral economics while utilizing experiential learning exercises adapted from theatrical improvisation.
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN THE ORGANIZATION PROGRAM This unique program enables leaders to tap into their own creativity, and the creativity of those around them, to transform innovative ideas into successful business solutions. It’s great for executives responsible for leading employees and increasing profits, whether their organizations are experiencing tremendous growth or are in need of rejuvenation. Led by acclaimed professor Moshe Rubinstein, the Creativity and Innovation in the Organization Program provides new, provocative ideas and tools that help leaders tap the creative potential of people and make their organizations more responsive and profitable.
CULTURE MANAGEMENT AND THE BOTTOM LINE Corporate culture is a critical driver of organizational competitiveness, performance, and bottom line profitability. This one-day program deals with the effective management and leadership of corporate culture as a strategic and organizational variable.
DIRECTOR EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM Accredited and sponsored in part by the NASDAQ Educational Foundation, this program is designed for directors with all levels of board experience. The program delivers executive and boardroom strategies that combine sound decision-making frameworks with best practices to achieve optimal results in corporate governance. Participants take away the approaches they need both to effectuate success and protect their organizations and themselves from liabilities and lawsuits.
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ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDIA EXECUTIVE PROGRAM Designed to broaden perspectives and focus powerful new lenses on the media and entertainment landscapes, the Entertainment and Media Executive Program hones the strategic visioning, management, and leadership skills required by a global industry in which convergence and constant transformation are the new norm. Participants will take away leading-edge knowledge of the industry and understand how to create synergy and opportunity between media, functions, and sectors. The program is a superb opportunity for creative strategic business-development, legal, finance, and distribution managers and other industry professionals in the areas of film, television, Internet/broadband, cable, music, gaming, and technology.
EXECUTIVE PROGRAM Managers and executives who want the essentials of an MBA curriculum will reap substantial benefit from this internationally recognized certificate program. Held weekly for 18 weeks, the Executive Program is designed to enhance the professional development competencies of executives and managers by providing skills and strategies that participants can apply immediately and as their careers progress. In the company of other leading executives, participants acquire the management expertise, leadership skills, and critical business perspectives needed to improve their careers and make a significant impact on their organizations. Led by world-renowned faculty, the program addresses the latest innovations in management education, allowing participants to understand and integrate the functional areas of business and apply techniques for effective analysis and decision-making.
LATINO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE One of the few programs of its kind, the Latino Leadership Institute is designed for Latino and Hispanic executives and high-potential managers. Participants address leadership and management issues in an engaging and forthright manner and learn ways to become stronger leaders and managers. Participants in the Latino Leadership Institute explore how best to use Latino social, economic, cultural, and political power and take away specific career-management tools to enhance their own careers. In addition, they learn to position their organizations to leverage the power of Latino stakeholders. The institute does a deep dive into management and leadership issues from the perspective of the Latino/Hispanic manager. Strategic in content and applied in nature, the Latino Leadership Institute is a five-month leadership journey, anchored by a three-day on-campus session during month three. Participants engage virtually during months one, two, four, and five, and participate in Web conferences, assessments, and coaching, taking away an action plan to increase productivity, leverage, and value within their organizations.
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LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR MANAGERS WITH DISABILITIES A first-of-its-kind institute, the Leadership Institute for Managers with Disabilities examines core leadership topics through the prism of the experience of executives and managers with disabilities. Participants learn how to enhance their credibility and strengthen their positions within their organizations; create and sustain developmental relationships and alliances that advance their career; maximize their personal, professional, and organizational potential through better teamwork and team leadership; think, lead, and manage ways that celebrate their individual attributes and perspectives; and develop valuable personal and business connections with fellow managers from leading organizations and corporations. The institute does a deep dive into management and leadership issues from the perspective of the manager with a visible or hidden disability. Strategic in content and applied in nature, the Leadership Institute for Managers with Disabilities is a five-month leadership journey, anchored by a three-day on-campus session during month three. Participants engage virtually during months one, two, four, and five, and participate in Web conferences, assessments, and coaching, taking away an action plan to increase productivity, leverage, and value within their organizations.
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE The UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Leadership Institute addresses universal leadership issues and related LGBT concerns. Topics include managing career identity while maintaining personal authenticity, dealing with feelings of isolation, knowing whom to trust, and understanding how best to work with allies and competitors. The Institute does a deep dive into management and leadership issues from the perspective of the LGBT manager. Strategic in content and applied in nature, the UCLA LGBT Leadership Institute is a five month leadership journey, anchored by a three day on campus session during month three. Participants engage virtually during months one, two, four, and five, and participate in Web conferences, assessments and coaching, taking away an Action Plan to increase productivity, leverage, and value within their organizations.
MEDICAL MARKETING PROGRAM The UCLA Medical Marketing Program delivers strategic frameworks and innovative marketing techniques for medical marketers in the pharmaceutical, device, diagnostic, and biotechnology industries. The program empowers medical marketers to allocate resources for maximum return on investment and to gain support for their decisions by properly measuring marketing productivity. With a highly interactive format, the program provides strategies and techniques to successfully and profitably market in a competitive environment. Participants hone their qualitative skills in building global brand equity, brand management, data-driven marketing, customer-relationship management, and creative problem-solving as these issues relate to the medical arena. From a quantitative standpoint, participants address strategic pricing, return on marketing investment, measuring and using customer preferences, and more. Participants share ideas, cultivate strategies, and form long-lasting relationships with medical marketers from leading companies across the industry spectrum and around the globe.
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM The Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Program is the most comprehensive and in-depth program of its kind, offering the strategies, frameworks, and tools necessary to create, negotiate, execute, and implement successful deals. Using a multidisciplinary approach, managers and executives explore the strategic, organizational, quantitative, and regulatory aspects of M&A to create deals that maximize competitive advantage. The program offers uniquely balanced coverage of M&A subjects, a broad framework from which to evaluate M&A and related growth strategies, and the opportunity to learn from and interact with world-class experts. Focusing on knowledge and techniques that can be applied immediately, the program delivers practical, up-todate strategies that enable participants to create maximum value for shareholders and other stakeholders.
PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION Persuasion is an art, but it is also a science, with a series of hidden principles for moving others—be they employees, managers, co-workers, prospective clients, or customers—in your direction. This one-day program explores the psychological fundamentals of persuasive communication and how to apply those principles to maximize your persuasiveness with a variety of different target audiences.
THE POWER OF ANALYZING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS This one-day program introduces participants to the main financial statements and disclosures produced by public and private companies; the principles underlying the content, format, and measurement of these statements; and the major tools employed by users of these statements for assessing their business performance, liquidity, prospects, and risk.
THINKING ON YOUR FEET: SETTING THE STAGE FOR CREATIVE THINKING Today's business environment demands agility and the readiness to respond to novel and complex situations. You must think creatively even under intense time pressure and find fresh approaches to your most pressing and ambiguous problems. This one-day program focuses on the constraints that inhibit our ability to think with flexibility, and delivers portent thinking strategies that expand possibilities and prepare you to meet new challenges and create better opportunities as the future unfolds.
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE Designed to address critical life-balance tools, leadership skills, management issues, and career-enhancing strategies for female executives, the Women’s Leadership Institute does a deep dive into management and leadership issues from the perspective of the female manager. Strategic in content and applied in nature, the Women's Leadership Institute is a five-month leadership journey, anchored by a three-day on-campus session during month three. Participants engage virtually during months one, two, four, and five, and participate in Web conferences, assessments, and coaching, taking away an Action Plan to increase productivity, leverage, and value within their organizations. Participants examine mentoring, pipelines, management, and leadership; understand how career options and choices differ for men and women; learn how to harness feminine attributes such as insight, intuition, and strong interpersonal skills to affect organizational change and implement new ideas in organizations; and acquire the ability to make smarter work-life decisions that are in alignment with long-term goals.
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The UCLA Athletics Community Relations program was developed to foster mentoring relationships between the UCLA Athletics family and youth in the surrounding community. By providing underprivileged children with the opportunity to experience a glimpse of college life through selected athletic events, the program aspires to build positive relationships and motivate young people to achieve in school and life. To this end, Bruin coaches, student-athletes and staff members have been busy in the community speaking as UCLA ambassadors and interacting with children through three main outreach programs: I'm Going to College, Athletics for Youth, and Reading Days.
Ric Coy Phone: 310-825-4586 Fax: 310-825-7406 smitchell@athletics.ucla.edu rcoy@athletics@ucla.edu http://uclabruins.com/comm-relations/ucla-comm-relations.html
P R O J E C T S ADOPT A CLASSROOM UCLA’s Athletics invites elementary-and middle-school classrooms to pen pal with Bruin athletes on our various teams. A relationship between classroom youngsters and an individual athlete is established with the exchange of written correspondence. The program culminates with Adopt A Classroom Day, in which all pen pals for a particular team are invited to attend an athletic event and meet their pen pal at the conclusion of competition. All 22 of UCLA’s intercollegiate athletic teams participate in this program.
ATHLETICS FOR YOUTH UCLA invites youth group organizations, many from the inner city, to enjoy complimentary admission to one football game at the Rose Bowl and one athletic event on campus for each of our Olympic sports teams in an effort to encourage youngsters to look beyond their current settings and think about the possibility of attending college. Over 300 youth group organizations were involved this past year with more than 7,500 youngsters participating in the program.
DRIBBLE FOR THE CURE For the past five years, UCLA Athletics has partnered with the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF) and the Cancer Research Program at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA to host Dribble for the Cure. The event kicks off in Drake Stadium where the UCLA men’s and women’s basketball teams lead participants on a 1.2 mile dribble course through the UCLA campus. Finish line festivities take place at the John Wooden Center (Collins Court) where awards are handed out to top fundraisers, and participants have the opportunity to meet the UCLA basketball teams, along with student-athletes from other Bruin teams. Proceeds for the events benefit the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF) and the Cancer Research Program at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA.
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I’M GOING TO COLLEGE One of the nation’s largest intercollegiate athletic outreach programs—nearly 50,000 elementary, middle and high school students, primarily from within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)—participated last year. The program incorporates a campus tour, free admission to an athletic event and involvement in educational functions, and is staffed entirely with volunteers from the UCLA campus community: studentathletes, peer group counselors, students, alumni and staff. The program highlights the benefits of higher education by exposing youngsters to the UCLA environment.
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UCLA COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING PROGRAM COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 70 Powell Librar y Building Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Community Based Learning Program (CBL), a unit of the Office of Instructional Development, is an umbrella for a number of different community programs, all of which target at-risk youth in the Los Angeles area. For over 20 years, CBL has worked with schools, religious institutions, and community-based organizations to provide youth workforce programs, and after-school programs to teenagers and young adults in underserved areas of the city. The various CBL projects provide opportunities for UCLA students to gain knowledge, understanding and experience working with high students and young adults as tutors, mentors, and workshop facilitators in many diverse communities. CBL manages two youth centers, one in West Los Angeles and one in Downtown Los Angeles, where young people can come for tutoring, homework assistance, job readiness training, job placement, GED preparation, college preparation activities, leadership development, and other enrichment activities. CBL provides tutoring and academic assistance at two Los Angeles City FamilySource Centers. Additionally, CBL is the operator for afterschool programs at six Los Angeles high schools, offering tutoring, homework assistance, job readiness training, SAT preparation, college preparation activities, leadership development, arts, cultural, and recreational activities. Each summer, UCLA CBL organizes about 400 summer jobs for high school students and young adults. The young people work both in community sites and in departments throughout the UCLA campus. The youth are paid for six weeks of work and enrichment activities. UCLA undergraduates provide support as workshop leaders and worksite coaches.
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Helen Williams Phone: 310-825-7729 Fax: 310-206-7878 hwilliams@uclaextension.edu http://www.uclaextension.edu
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UCLA Extension's American Language Center offers on-site workplace language programs. Instructors go to the worksite, and courses are scheduled to fit into the company's daily workflow. A popular offering is (Pronunciation for Non-Native Speaking Professionals), which helps improve overall clarity of speech for those whose first language is not English. A series of Multi-skills English as a Second Language (ESL) courses helps
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to improve employees communication in specific, work-related situations. A short, yet highly effective Safety Language class can be designed specifically for employees who need to understand safety signs and safety terminology including those who handle hazardous materials on the job.
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Established over 20 years ago and led by addictions and substance abuse experts, UCLA Extension's prestigious program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies has prepared over 650 students for professional certification and careers in addictions counseling. Employment needs in the field of addictions counseling are expected to grow 35 percent through 2016.
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UCLA EXTENSION CORPORATE EDUCATION/CUSTOM PROGRAMS UCLA EXTENSION 10995 Le Conte Ave., Suite 514 Los Angeles, CA 90024 UCLA Extension is uniquely equipped to deliver practical educational and employment-development solutions on-site at businesses, non-profit organizations, and government offices throughout Los Angeles and around the world. Corporations representing many industries and public agencies rely on UCLA Extension for education and training in many areas: business and management, international trade and commerce, education, global sustainability, design communication arts, English as a Second Language, foreign languages, legal programs, architecture and interior design, landscape architecture, journalism and public relations, fundraising, public health, healthcare management, nursing and mental health practice, public policy, writing, entertainment studies, and more.
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UCLA EXTENSION EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAMS UCLA EXTENSION 10995 Le Conte Ave., Suite 639 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Developed in cooperation with UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, the Early Childhood Basic and Advanced Certificate programs are designed to meet the needs of teachers, supervisors, administrators, and directors of preschool and child care centers, blending practical methodology and current research. These programs meet the academic requirements for Title 5 Child Development permits and Title 22 licensing regulations for professional growth activities. Courses can be taken face-to-face or online. A Spanish language curriculum is also available.
UCLA EXTENSION K-12 TEACHER PRELIMINARY AND CLEAR CREDENTIALING UCLA EXTENSION 10995 Le Conte Ave., Suite 639 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Credentialing programs approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing have been designed to prepare outstanding urban classroom teachers. These programs consist of Multiple Subject, Single Subject, and Special Education Intern programs as well as Multiple Subject, Single Subject, and Special Education Clear Programs.
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Miriam Sims Phone: 310-825-0095 Fax: 310-206-5006 msims@uclaextension.edu https://www.uclaextension.edu/ teachers/pages/k12Teachers.aspx
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UCLA Extension’s Public Policy Program provides a forum for public officials, planners, attorneys, private-sector representatives, community groups, and the research community to examine the most important and timely public policy issues confronting Southern California, the state, and the nation. Programs provide practical and timely information about changing laws and policies, planning practices, technologies, analysis tools, environmental planning, public infrastructure finance and transportation planning, policy and management.
Evan McGinnis Phone: 310-825-7093 Fax: 310-825-1545 emcginni@uclaextension.edu http://www.uclaextension.edu/ publicpolicy
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The School Counseling or School Psychology Credential is tailored for individuals who are seeking a career as a school counselor or school psychologist at an educational or social service agency. The program benefits include: convenient online and weekend classes, courses taught by experienced professionals, departmental program support, and competitive tuition rates.
Linh Nguyen Phone: 310-825-4191 Fax: 310-206-5006 lnguyen@uclaextension.edu
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UCLA EXTENSION TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE UCLA EXTENSION 10995 Le Conte Ave., Suite #639 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESL/TEFL) is a program in the field of language instruction. This certificate is designed to help those who want to teach English either as a second language or as a foreign language abroad. It is aimed at expanding an individual’s résumé and teaching skills. This program is well suited for those who are considering applying for advanced degree programs in the fields of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Teaching, Heritage Language Teaching, Education, and other related fields.
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UCLA EXTENSION-PATHWAY AT UCLA EXTENSION UCLA EXTENSION 10995 Le Conte Ave., Suite 639 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Pathway at UCLA Extension is a two-year, certificated educational program for young adults with developmental disabilities. The program supports students to develop the skills required for personal success at work, at home, and in the community, while providing opportunities for continuing educational growth. Pathway's goal is to prepare young adults with developmental disabilities for independent living, employment, and lifelong learning. In meeting the above goals, we strive to provide opportunities for our students to not only integrate into community activities, but to take a role in organizing and leading these activities.
UCLA LAB SCHOOL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION STUDIES Corinne A. Seeds Campus 330 Charles E. Young Drive North Los Angeles, CA 90095-1619 UCLA Lab School is an innovative school for children and a laboratory for teachers and researchers. The practices developed and refined here have an impact on K-12 education around the world. Inside the classroom, the process starts with a curriculum aligned with state and national standards. The teacher listens to students and guides their experiences to incorporate the children's interests and respond to their learning needs. As the children learn and explore, they represent their understanding in a variety of ways, helping the teacher find new opportunities to guide the process further. The result is a circle of curiosity, experience, and understanding that transforms children's lives.
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The UCLA Lab School and the CONNECT research center, both part of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, disseminate research findings to local and state schools and conduct seminars and workshops for teachers based on those findings. Major Institutes include the Critical Thinking Institute and English Language Learners in California Symposium. Outreach publications include Managing Information in a Digital Age and Early Literacy Skills Development. Educators' Days are held several times throughout the school year on topics including Readers and Writers Workshops, Project-Based Learning, Cognitively Guided Instruction in Mathematics, Primary Sources in Social Studies, and Learning in Two Languages. The classroom observations and teacher conversation provide public and private school educators a snapshot of learning in different subject areas.
P R O J E C T S COGNITIVELY GUIDED INSTRUCTION IN MATHEMATICS WORKSHOP The Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) in Mathematics Workshop is a highly effective research-based program for teaching mathematics. Using the CGI approach, teachers start with what children already know about math and build on it to move them toward deeper levels of understanding. CGI provides a framework to help teachers create more individualized and more effective instruction.
CRITICAL THINKING INSTITUTE Learning how to access and manage information, think critically, solve complex problems, and use technology effectively are essential skills for living and working productively in the 21st century. The award-winning Critical Thinking Institute is designed to introduce teachers to the methods UCLA Lab School has developed for teaching these skills. Focusing on the content areas of science and social studies, the goals of the institute are to help teachers: • Foster critical thinking and communication among their students; • Address standards and basic skills utilizing authentic learning experiences; • Prepare students to become part of a learning/working community by fostering collaboration; • Teach information literacy skills (e.g., finding, evaluating and using information) in the meaningful context of inquiry/project-based learning; • Integrate technology into instruction through web searching, database construction, concept mapping and the creation of multimedia projects; • Use technology to enhance student productivity and promote creativity. Participants are invited to transform a unit of study in social studies or science that employs a traditional approach, where students receive knowledge from the teacher, to an area of focus that uses a constructivist approach, where students are actively engaged in creating their own understanding. To learn more, please visit http://www.labschool.ucla.edu/educators/.
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EDUCATORS' DAYS These one-day, guided visits to UCLA Lab School classrooms provide snapshots of teaching and learning in different subject areas. 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE, registration required. Registration must be postmarked one week prior to the event. To learn more, please visit http://www.labschool.ucla.edu/educators/.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN CALIFORNIA SYMPOSIUM The symposium promotes academic achievement among English Language Learners. To learn more, please visit http://www.labschool.ucla.edu/.
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UCLA/JOHNSON & JOHNSON HEAD START MANAGEMENT FELLOWS PROGRAM ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 110 Westwood Plaza Gold Hall, Suite B-307 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Head Start Management Fellows Program is a national training program established in 1991 to develop and strengthen the entrepreneurial management skills of Head Start Executives. This program reaches nearly 1 million economically disadvantaged children and their families each day, and effective management of the agency improves the quality of services. Conducted by the UCLA Anderson School of Management and funded by Johnson & Johnson, the program has trained nearly 1,400 Head Start executives. Program curricula consists of over 80 hours of intensive training over a two-week period during the summer, with a focus on building both executive and entrepreneurial-management skills. Lectures, workshops, and group discussions cover human resource management, organization design and development, financial management, data analysis, operations management, and marketing. Case studies, based on actual Head Start organizations, are used to illustrate key concepts and enhance learning. Instructors include faculty from UCLA Anderson, along with leading professors from other universities. MBA students serve as teaching associates and support the learning process. For over 20 years, Johnson & Johnson program alumni have gone on to many outstanding accomplishments. These Head Start leaders have come from all 50 states and territories; they lead programs that are based in urban and rural areas; they serve migrant family workers; they are located on reservations, and in churches and medical clinics.
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An outgrowth of the program is the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute, a health training program for Head Start parents. This program is now in its 13th year of educating parents in the health needs of their children. The success of this program is measured by reduced visits to the emergency room, fewer missed school days and workdays, and reduced health care costs.
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The UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program (HCEP) arms healthcare leaders with the business skills they need to lead their community-based health care and health-related organizations more effectively. It is an 11-day residency program held at UCLA Anderson-a “mini-MBA” program–with courses in finance, health, economics, marketing, project management, accounting, and operations management, among others. CEO’s, Executive directors and other senior leaders of impressive health institutions serving
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communities all over the United States often find that their ability to manage would be greatly enhanced by such skills. This program provides training in a context specifically geared toward the participants' specific situations. Starting in 2011, the program was designed to assist organizations adapt successfully to the changes implied by health care reform. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that community health centers and community-based health care organizations enhance the efficiency and scope of their service delivery model, consider building alliances and partnerships, provide for expanded patient access, position themselves in an increasingly competitive marketplace, enhance the patient experience, improve health outcomes, and develop and utilize effective health information systems. These and other competencies relevant to health care reform are the focus of the HCEP. A unique aspect of the program is the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), in which participants select a challenge or project to work on in their own organization throughout the program and implement upon their return. Successful CHIPs have included dental programs, mobile clinics, significantly lowered wait times for patients, and improved client satisfaction. Participants qualify for the program through a rigorous and competitive application process. This program is a unique partnership between UCLA Anderson and Johnson & Johnson. The result is that clients–the traditionally underserved populations–receive higher-quality health care in a more efficient manner. The Health Care Executive Program, established in 2002, has enjoyed enormous success and is extremely competitive because of its high quality. The true beneficiaries are the “end users”–that is, the people who come in for health services. The health providers have also reported much higher career satisfaction, have lower turnover, and enjoy more peer interaction and support as their network has grown as a result of the program.
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The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden at UCLA, a living museum that maintains one of America’s largest collections of tropical and subtropical plants, offers free docent-led tours as part of its public education program. Throughout the year, trained docents lead tours of the garden for university students, primary and secondary school students, seniors groups, garden clubs, temple and church groups, and others. On the first
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Saturday of each month, a free docent-led tour of the garden is given on a drop-in basis. School and community group tours must be booked in advance. The garden is closed on Sundays. The garden includes some 5,000 species of plants from regions all over the world. Tours last approximately one hour and can be designed to cater to groups of various ages, interests, restrictions, and levels of scientific knowledge. Basic botanical concepts are introduced, along with interesting historical facts and notes on the unusual characteristics of several rare specimens. In addition to the botanical collections, the seven-acre garden houses a shaded eating area and The Nest, an outdoor classroom with semicircular bench seating. In the 13 years since the inception of its public education program, docents have given nearly 450 tours of the garden to more than 12,000 visitors from K-12 schools, Saturday drop-in tours, UCLA-affiliated groups, and other adult groups. Many UCLA classes in the arts and sciences use the garden as an outdoor classroom. In addition, the Garden serves as a respite to visitors and patients at the UCLA Medical Center, as well as others from the campus and the community.
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UCLA Recreation works closely with Los Angeles-area youth, civic organizations, and schools to offer custom classes and programs in a variety of recreational, instructional, and educational opportunities. Our instructional program areas include Youth and Family Programs, the UCLA Marina Aquatic Center in Marina del Rey, the Outdoor Adventures Center, Challenge Course, Rock Wall, Sunset Canyon Recreation Center Aquat-
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ics, and Adaptive Recreation. Some activities include youth camps, sailing, kayaking, rock-climbing, camping, backpacking, high and low ropes courses, canoeing, surfing, windsurfing, rafting, swimming, sports camps, adaptive cycling, adaptive sailing, wheelchair basketball, martial arts and much more. All activities are designed to encourage personal growth, skills-acquisition, appreciation, and respect for positive group interaction, and especially, fun! For more information, please visit www.recreation.ucla.edu. 63 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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UCLA STUNT RANCH SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS RESERVE COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 3205 Life Science Bldg. P.O. Box 951606 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The 310-acre UCLA Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve lies in the Cold Creek watershed of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is named for the Stunt family, who homesteaded it in 1889. In addition to university-level use, the reserve has forged a partnership between UCLA and K-12 education in the Greater Los Angeles area. Thousands of students visit Stunt Ranch annually as part of a formal program coordinated by the Cold Creek Docents, a division of the Mountains Restoration Trust (MRT). The three-hour school programs focus on chaparral and fire ecology, geology, and early local Native American and homestead history. When students arrive, they are led on a 1.5-mile hike on the Stunt High Trail. Once in the educational zone of the reserve, they take part in a rotation of interactive activities, including viewing a mural of Chumash village life, taxidermied animals native to the area, acorn grinding, a “cave wall� painting, Chumash games, and demonstrations of tool making. Students bring bag lunches and return to their vehicles by trail with more interpretation along the way. An outdoor classroom and living laboratory, the Stunt Ranch Reserves averages 4,000 users each year; the largest number of users are the K-12 students from the Greater Los Angeles Region. In addition, the reserve serves as the site for university-level instruction and research from UCLA and other UC campuses, the California State University system, and other universities within and outside of California, as well as miscellaneous public outreach programs.
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The American Indian Studies Center (AISC) makes a strong commitment to the study and support of Native American communities. The AISC encourages the development of new research related to American Indian issues and cultures, administers fellowships, promotes the hiring of American Indian faculty, and aids in the recruitment of American Indian students. The AISC publishes a quarterly academic journal, books, bibliographies, and monographs. AISC houses a library that contains 6,000 volumes related to all aspects of Ameri-
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P R O J E C T S AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION The American Indian Graduate Student Association (AIGSA) is composed of American Indian students at UCLA who wish to participate in discussion forums and projects. AIGSA members sponsor and welcome various speakers on American Indian topics and attempt to foster an understanding of American Indian perspectives both on the UCLA campus and in the larger community.
UCLA ANNUAL POW WOW The UCLA Annual Pow Wow is held in May and includes Native American pow wow dances, Native foods, and Native arts and crafts. For Native Americans, the pow wow has become a springboard for tradition and for instilling a sense of pride and involvement in their culture. The American Indian Student Association, which sponsors the event, welcomes and encourages everyone to attend in order to give others the opportunity to learn, share, and participate in Native American culture.
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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 3230 Campbell Hall P.O. Box 951546 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Asian American Studies Center, founded in 1969, has become the foremost national research center on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Its mission is to interpret, define, and forge the separate and collective identities of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage, and to integrate multidisciplinary approaches into the understanding of significant historical and contemporary Asian American and Pacific Islander issues. The center has sought to bridge the educational, social, political, and cultural concerns of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community with the overall mission of UCLA through research and creative endeavors, curriculum development, publications, library and archival work, public educational activities, and partnerships with local and national organizations. During the past 44 years, the center has: • Recruited the largest faculty in Asian American Studies in the nation, with 50+ professors. • Built the largest teaching and training program, offering more than 70 undergraduate and graduate classes annually with enrollments of 3,000, along with B.A., undergraduate minor, and M.A. degrees. In 2004, the Interdepartmental Degree Program was elevated to the status of a full-fledged Department of Asian American Studies. • Since 1971, published the leading scholarly journal in Asian American Studies, "Amerasia Journal", and more than 200 books on Asian Americans. In 2003, the Center launched a second national journal, AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice, and Community. • Developed the most diverse library and archival resources on Asian Americans in the nation. Its library collection contains more than 5,000 books and monographs, along with rare and unique collections of popular and scholarly magazines, journals, and ethnic community newspapers from across the nation. • Established strong working relationships with hundreds of organizations and leaders in California, nationally, and globally. Please see our website for a select listing of our partnerships at: http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/partnerslist.htm.
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P R O J E C T S ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENSUS INFORMATION CENTER In October 2000, the Asian American Pacific Islander Community Development Census Information Center was designated as an official Census Information Center (CIC), a cooperative program between the U.S. Census Bureau and 57 national, regional, and local nonprofit organizations. Member organizations include national nongovernmental organizations, minority colleges and universities, research groups and think tanks, minority chambers of commerce, civil rights and social justice organizations, organizations serving both children and rural populations, and one tribal government. The CIC program is designed to increase access to census data for underserved community-based groups, with the CICs serving as a clearinghouse of census data, updates, and reports. The AAPICD CIC, a partnership between the National Coalition of Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD) and the Asian American Studies Center, was established to serve the census data needs of Asian American and Pacific Islander community based organizations.
ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER NEXUS: ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS POLICY, PRACTICE, AND COMMUNITY JOURNAL The center’s press publishes "Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Nexus", a national journal focusing on policies, practices, and community research to benefit the nation’s burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. AAPI Nexus draws from professional schools and applied social science scholars as well as practitioners and public policy advocates with the goal of reinvigorating Asian American Studies' mission of serving communities and generating practical research.
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE The annual Asian Pacific American Community Research Roundtable serves as a vehicle for faculty and undergraduate and graduate students to meet and collaborate with other Asian Pacific American community organizations on research. Participants share research on important issues facing their communities, explore new ways of producing relevant research, and organize collaborative efforts between the campus and local communities.
ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY DIRECTORY A listing of more than 800 community organizations, media outlets, and academic institutions in Los Angeles and Orange counties, the directory serves as a tool for community-based organizations looking to network with other organizations and to provide information and referrals for their clients. It is also a great resource for students and faculty, helping them establish internships, research pertinent issues, and develop curricula.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER POLICY MULTI-CAMPUS RESEARCH PROGRAM The UC Asian American Pacific Islander Policy Multi Campus Research Program promotes and coordinates applied and policy research on topics relevant to California's growing Asian American and Pacific Islander population. The MRP serves as a bridge linking UC researchers to community organizations, the media, and elected officials and their staff. These activities help the University of California to integrate research, teaching, and community outreach in ways that inform and enlighten public discourse on important public policy issues. The MRP is supported through funds from the UC Office of the President, UCLA's Asian American Studies Center, and other academic units from throughout the UC system.
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CHICANO STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 193 Haines Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) is a comprehensive organized research unit that supports research and related activities on the growing Chicano/Latino population. The CSRC includes an academic press, library and archive, and academic and community relations. The research program covers a wide range of areas, including arts and culture, history, literature, education, public health, media policy, language, and population studies. Research projects with an emphasis on community partnerships have included: Media and Hate Speech with the National Hispanic Media Coalition with support from the Social Science Research Council; the California Program for Opportunity and Equity (CalPOE), with support from the Hewlett Foundation, which provides technical assistance to policymakers, sponsors policy-relevant research on statewide issues, and disseminates research findings through publications and special briefings; and Mexican Americans in Los Angeles art since 1945, with support from the Getty and Annenberg Foundations, which involved collaborations with local arts group and museums. Current and ongoing projects include the Latina/o Education Summit, which addresses issues concerning Latinos’ access to education, and the CSRC Library’s LGBT Latina/o Initiative, the first archival program in the nation dedicated to preserving the histories of the LGBT Latina/o community.
P R O J E C T S A VER: RE-VISIONING ART HISTORY The award-winning A Ver: Revisioning Art History series stems from the conviction that individual artists and their coherent bodies of work are the foundation for a meaningful and diverse art history. This series explores the cultural, aesthetic, and historical contributions of Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and other U.S. Latino artists. Each volume contains a foreword by the series editor, a scholarly essay, full-color illustrations, an exhibition history, and a selected bibliography of writings on the artist. In 2013, the series boasts eight volumes in print and seven in progress.
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LATINOS AND ECONOMIC SECURITY As part of a longstanding partnership between the CSRC and the UCLA School of Public Affairs and with support from the Ford Foundation, the CSRC contributes research, analysis, and reports on economic security concerning Latino baby boomers. In 2012, the CSRC received its fourth subgrant to collaborate with key advocacy organizations, conduct briefing sessions and a webinar, and identify areas in this field for further research. In 2013, the CSRC co-sponsored and participated in the symposium, "Aging in a Majority-Minority Nation: Interracial and Intergenerational Tensions & Opportunities." Research reports published by the CSRC Press have addressed Social Security demands, demographic and economic changes, and the lack of organizational support for this large, aging Latino population.
LGBT LATINA/O INITIATIVE The CSRC LGBT Latina/o Initiative was instituted in 2007 by esteemed CSRC librarian Yolanda Retter Vargas, and supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation between 2008 and 2012. It is the first of its kind at any higher education institution in the country. Now holding seventeen LGBT archival collections, the CSRC Library has published one artist’s monograph and one award-winning reference book (with a second forthcoming) based on these collections. Materials from the LGBT collections have been exhibited at museums across the U.S. and throughout Latin America. To date, the CSRC has held workshops and presentations in four states to facilitate the preservation of Latina/o LGBT collections nationally. The Initiative also involves students, offering hands-on experience working with archival collections so that these materials can be made available to students, scholars, and the general public.
THE LATINA/O EDUCATION SUMMIT Each year since 2006 the CSRC has presented an Education Summit that brings together distinguished scholars, educators, community representatives, policy makers, and students to discuss the critical issues that Latina/o students face at each segment of the education pipeline. Participants explore viable policy recommendations and initiatives that can improve educational opportunities and increase the number of Latina/o students who earn undergraduate and graduate degrees. Each summit focuses on a specific issue related to the education of Chicanos and Latinos. Past conferences have focused on language differences, budget crises, school governance, and federal immigration legislation.
THE STRACHWITZ FRONTERA COLLECTION The Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence. It contains more than 130,000 individual recordings. Many are rare, and some are one of a kind. Although border music is the focus of the collection, it also includes notable recordings of other Latin forms, including salsa, mambo, sones, and rancheras. More than 40,000 of the recordings, all from the first half of the 20th century, have been digitized with the help of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and are available online through the University of California’s Digital Library Program.
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RALPH J. BUNCHE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 160 Haines Hall Box 951545 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Established as an organized research unit in 1969, the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies has a primary mission to develop strong academic and research programs in African American studies. This goal has been accomplished through the interrelated spheres of research, publications, curricula, the library and media center, and cultural informational programs. The Bunche Center also sponsors an active symposia and lecture series focusing on topics of local and national interests. The special projects division of the center is primarily responsible for the development and implementation of cultural and informational programming that enriches the experiences of UCLA and the broader community. The Library and Media Center is open to the public, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The research division is at the core of the organized research unit’s work. Its commitment is to undertake and sponsor research that enhances our understanding of the history, lifestyles, material conditions, and socio-cultural systems of women and men of African descent in the Americas and in the diaspora.
P R O J E C T S BLACK LOS ANGELES PROJECT Black life in Los Angeles has been understudied relative to other important African American urban areas around the nation. Yet Los Angeles has been, and remains, an essential reservoir of black social, cultural, and political activity whose input on broader social developments is insufficiently understood. The Bunche Center’s Black Los Angeles Project aims to correct this oversight by focusing the expertise of scholars and community members on excavating important knowledge about the history of black Los Angeles and on examining the contemporary contours of black life in the metropolis. A major volume that presents findings from this work, "Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities" is forthcoming from NYU Press.
COLLEGE ACCESS PROJECT FOR AFR ICAN AMERICANS Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA established the College Access Project for African Americans (CAPAA) in 2002 to examine the crisis of severe under-representation confronting African Americans in California’s institutions of higher education, particularly after the repeal of affirmative action in California through Proposition 209. The Bunche Center continues to advise the Alliance for Equal Opportunity in Education in its efforts to increase access for black college students.
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INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES RESEARCH PROGRAMS Each year the Institute of American Cultures (IAC), an administrative entity composed of UCLA’s four Ethnic Studies Centers, sponsors a competitive fellowship and grant program to support research by faculty and graduate students. Awards are in the form of post-doctoral and pre-doctoral fellowships and research grants to faculty and students. These awards are administered by each of the centers.
KENNY BURREL ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC The Kenny Burrell Archive of African American Music provides a unique opportunity to chronicle and celebrate the wide-ranging impact of African American music, particularly as it has influenced and been influenced by the cultural and media crossroads of Los Angeles. The Archive is named for legendary jazz guitarist and UCLA Professor Kenny Burrell, who perfectly embodies the intersecting influences of musical styles and genres that comprise African American music. Although Burrell is primarily known for his priceless contributions to the jazz tradition, he has also performed on stage and in the studio for countless acts in the rhythm and blues tradition over the years. Some of the collection will be preserved in its original form, but major portions of the collection will be catalogued and digitized to make it available to students, scholars, the public, and the music industry. The archive will serve as an important research tool for broader disciplines, including music, history, and the social sciences.
RACE IN HOLLYWOOD PROJECT The Race in Hollywood Project is a research and outreach initiative focused on finding effective ways to create and nurture an effective “pipeline” for ethnic minorities into the entertainment industry.
SUMMER HUMANITIES INSTITUTE The Summer Humanities Institute (SHI) is designed to provide intense training in humanities scholarship to students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The significance of the institute centers on being able to fill a much-needed gap in preparation for study on the graduate level at major universities. The rationale for the program continues to be our concern with the continuing attrition and resulting dearth of students from historically under-represented groups in humanities scholarship, and the implications of these trends for the future of African American studies.
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UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 1500 Public Affairs Box 957222 Los Angeles, CA 90095 One of the Center for the Study of Women’s (CSW) core mission goals is the creation of intellectual, political, and cultural affiliations within the university, the academy, and with the Los Angeles community. To create and maintain these affiliations, CSW organizes yearly faculty and graduate student conferences, hosts a quarterly speaker series open to the public, and maintains an active website and newsletter whose circulation includes many members of the Los Angeles community outside of UCLA. CSW has also, for many years, run a community outreach program for independent scholars in the Los Angeles area. Since taking over as CSW Director in 2005, Kathleen McHugh has geared CSW’s original research projects to topics relating to “Women in Los Angeles” in order to more closely align and articulate our research projects with our constituencies in Los Angeles. Over the past several years, CSW has engaged in specific research projects and other activities that actively engage the community.
P R O J E C T S “WOMEN’S SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES IN LOS ANGELES, 1960-1999” RESEARCH PROJECT This multiyear research project examines the history of women’s social movement activities in mid to late 20th century Los Angeles, specifically in the areas of healthcare, higher education, labor, and the arts. Rather than bebased on a prior definition of the Women’s Movement, the Women's Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles (WSMALA) project examines the range of activities by which women organized demands against discrimination and for access, equal opportunity, and equal representation. WSMALA documents the material effects of women’s social movement activities on public policy and civic institutions in Los Angeles. It will be a major contribution to the historiography of Los Angeles and will provide new resources for scholars, the public, and today’s policy leaders. CSW is conducting archival research and oral history interviews; developing publicly accessible data resources; and will organize a public conference to disseminate research findings. Currently, graduate student researchers are visiting local archives to examine historical materials related to women leaders and community-based activities. Citing these off-campus collections in our website and report will highlight some of the community-based archives in Los Angeles. In addition, CSW has applied for external funding that will allow us to expand the community component of WSMALA by interviewing local women and forging closer ties with local organizations through a public symposium at the Southern California Library.
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RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM CSW created the Research Scholar Program in spring 1989, and instituted this affiliation during the 199091 academic year. The program is designed to support independent scholars conducting research on women, sexuality, or gender who have limited institutional access to research support. To qualify, Research Scholars must have an active research project in progress and neither a tenure-track position nor a permanent, fulltime academic affiliation with a college or university. The center encourages affiliation from a diverse group of scholars whose work covers many diverse disciplines. Currently, CSW has 30 local scholars affiliated with the center who produce numerous academic articles, books, and conference presentations each year. The CSW Research Scholar program not only facilitates 30 independent research projects in the community, but also provides these community members with access to UCLA's vast scholarly resources.
THE "ACCESS MAZER" PROJECT: ORGANIZING AND DIGITIZING THE LESBIAN-FEMINIST ARCHIVE IN LOS ANGELES CSW received a two-year Competitive Support for Campus Partners grant from the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships in 2007. The center partnered with the West Hollywood-based, volunteer-run June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives—the sole archival repository on the West Coast dedicated to preserving lesbian and feminist history. CSW processed and digitized five key Los Angeles-themed collections, ensuring increased accessibility of the archival materials to scholars and the community. The center also facilitated the negotiation of a permanent partnership between the Mazer Archives and the UCLA Library.
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Anel Dzmura Phone: 310-794-0676 Fax: 310-794-0681 adzmura@mednet.ucla.edu http://www.semel.ucla.edu/longevity
P R O J E C T S COMMUNITY MEETINGS Community meetings present information on strategies on healing grief, and grandparents and their grandchildren.
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THE CENTER ON AGING NEWSLETTER AND WEB SITE The Center on Aging’s newsletter and website provides people with a wide range of information about healthy aging and center programs.
THE FIVE-WEEK MEMORY TRAINING COURSE Based on Dr. Gary Small's research, the Memory Training course teaches practical techniques for enhancing memory ability at venues throughout Southern California and licensed the program in Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Florida, Maryland.
THE SENIOR SCHOLARS PROGRAM The senior scholars program offers adults (aged 50+) the opportunity to audit UCLA undergraduate courses.
UCLA TECHNOLOGY AND AGING CONFERENCE: SUCCESSFUL AGING IN A HIGH-TECH WORLD The UCLA Technology and Aging Conference: Successful Aging in a High-Tech World educates attendees on cutting-edge technologies that help people live better longer. The focus of the Conference is on successful aging in a high-tech world as presented by national leaders in the technology and aging fields.
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UCLA CÉSAR E. CHÁVEZ DEPARTMENT OF CHICANA/O STUDIES COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE 7349 Bunche Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 The mission of the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies is to train a new generation of scholars to research and analyze the life, history, and culture of Mexican-origin people within the United States, as well as of other Latino/a and indigenous populations in the Americas. Addressing local, national, and transnational contexts, the Chicana/o Studies curriculum at UCLA explores race, class, gender, and sexuality paradigms as they have shaped the history of the field, as well as new directions in the study of Chicana/os and Latina/os, including 1) Labor, Law, Education, and Policy Studies; 2) History, Language, and Culture of the Americas; 3) Transnational and Border Studies; and, 4) Arts and Community Cultural Development. The faculty of the César Chávez Department, situated in one of the most diverse cities in the world, utilizes Los Angeles as a laboratory for studying the social transformations taking place in California, the Southwest, and the United States. We aim to provide our students with the interdisciplinary research tools necessary to advance knowledge in the field, provide academic leadership, and serve community needs with academic resources.
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The UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Campus Resource Center provides a comprehensive range of education, information, and advocacy services and works to create and maintain an open, safe, and inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, transgender, queer, questioning, and same-genderloving students, faculty, and staff; their families and friends; and the entire campus community. The LGBT Center is the home of the Rae Lee Siporin Library and the David Bohnett LGBT CyberCenter.
Raja Bhattar Phone: 310-206-3629 Fax: 310-206-8191 rbhattar@lgbt.ucla.edu http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu
P R O J E C T S PROJECT 1 Project 1 is a collaboration with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Campus Resource Center, the Community Programs Office, and the Los Angeles Unified School District. UCLA students provide weekly mentoring, support and tutoring to local high school youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or allies.
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Every year since 2009, UCLA physicians, dentists and ophthalmologists provide mammograms, fill cavities, complete cancer screenings, screen patients for glaucoma and cataracts and perform other health exams at the annual Care Harbor free clinic at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Liz Narrillos Roux Phone: 310-374-7188 Fax: 310-598-6523 info@careharbor.org
UCLA's Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine coordinates the UCLA effort, including the Jules Stein Eye Institute, which in 2011 provided free surgery to 10 patients and screened about
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500 eye patients at risk for eye diseases such as cataracts, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. In 2011, the clinic, formerly called the CareNow Clinic, saw more than 3,500 patients over a four day period. Care Harbor, a nonprofit organized in 2009, sponsors the largest free clinics in the country. These community-based events draw on local resources and volunteers, including hospitals, medical and dental schools, professional associations, community clinic networks and local healthcare agencies.
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The mission of the Center for Behavioral & Addiction Medicine (CBAM) is to advance the prevention and treatment of chronic illnesses, especially in communities with health disparities. CBAM focuses on three signature services including 1) conducting clinical, behavioral, and operational research on interventions for substance abuse or HIV, 2) providing evidence-based prevention and treatment services for substance use and HIV risk, and 3) training of fellows, residents, students, and interns who are interested in careers in primary care, ad-
Jennifer Baughman Phone: 310-794-0619 Fax: 310-794-2808 cbam@mednet.ucla.edu http://cbam.ucla.edu
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CONTACT Gwen Driscoll Phone: 310-794-0930 Fax: 310-794-2686 gdriscoll@ucla.edu http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu
Los Angeles, CA 90024 The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is one of the nation's leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California. Established in 1994, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is the home of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the nation’s largest and most comprehensive state health survey. On a regular basis, CHIS surveys more than 50,000 Californians on dozens of health issues, from health insurance to chronic disease. The results of that survey provide policy makers, health advocates, community organizations, media, healthcare providers, foundations, researchers, and many others with critical health information. The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research also conducts independent research, program evaluation and analysis on a variety of national, state, and local health policy issues, ranging from health insurance coverage to obesity, asthma, and diabetes to the economics of health care programs. Drawing upon the expertise of the UCLA School of Public Health and the School of Public Affairs, center staff publish reports, policy briefs, and fact sheets that have been used to frame policy and improve health care in California and nationally. For more information on the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, visit www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu.
P R O J E C T S CHRONIC DISEASE The Chronic Disease program conducts wide-ranging research on chronic conditions, including asthma, cancer, diabetes, obesity and coronary heart disease. The program investigates the causes of chronic disease, such as unhealthy food and living environments, as well as the health, social and economic consequences.
HEALTH DATA Through in-person and on-line workshops, the Health DATA (Data. Advocacy. Training. Assistance.) program helps policymakers, community groups, and health and advocacy organizations to understand and use credible data in their programmatic and policy development work.
HEALTH DISPARITIES The Health Disparities program examines the unique health concerns of populations challenged by inequities in health and health care quality along racial, ethnic, age, or socio-economic lines. In particular, the program is noted for its expertise on the elderly, immigrants, women, and American Indian and Alaska Native populations.
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HEALTH ECONOMICS AND EVALUATION RESEARCH The Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) program examines the economic impacts of health care policies and programs. From local public health interventions, to statewide efforts to improve Medi-Cal, to national debates on health care financing, HEER staff provide analysis, conduct evaluations and offer expertise to policymakers and others concerned with health care costs.
HEALTH INSURANCE The Health Insurance program examines key state and national trends in health insurance coverage, including employer and individual insurance, access to insurance, as well as the health and economic impact of lack of insurance. The program’s biennial publication, “The State of Health Insurance in California,” provides omnibus reporting of important health insurance statistics.
THE CALIFORNIA HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is the nation’s largest state health survey and one of the largest health surveys in the United States. The CHIS website (chis.ucla.edu) offers free data files, as well as quick, customized health statistics via its easy-to-use tool, AskCHIS.
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By uniting a broad array of specialists - from pediatrics, public health, preventive medicine, education, mental health, economics, communications, law, and public policy - with families, community groups, providers and businesses, the center aims to: • Improve the health of children, families, and communities by developing innovative and responsive service programs; • Increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and distribution of health and social services; and • Assist communities in transforming themselves into healthier environments for their children. The center's mission is to improve society's ability to provide children with the best opportunities for health and well-being, and the chance to assume productive roles within families and communities.
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CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 650 Charles E. Young Drive South Box 951772 Los Angeles, CA 90024 The Center for Occupational & Environmental Health was established in 1979 by the California State Legislature to train occupational-health professionals, conduct research on occupational- and environmental-health issues, and provide community outreach through continuing education, clinical service, and technical consultation. The center utilizes faculty and staff from the UCLA schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, and from the Institute of Industrial Relations. Academic programs are available in the fields of industrial hygiene, occupational-health nursing, and occupational medicine.
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David P. Eisenman CONTACT David P. Eisenman Phone: 310-794-2452 Fax: 310-794-0732 deisenman@mednet.ucla.edu http://www.cphd.ucla.edu
CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH & DISASTERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Fielding School of Public Health 650 S. Charles E. Young Dr., Suite 26081 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772 The UCLA Center for Public Health & Disasters (CPHD) was established in 1997 to address the critical issues faced when a disaster impacts a community. CPHD promotes interdisciplinary efforts to improve community resilience and reduce the health impacts of natural and human-generated domestic and international disasters. The center facilitates dialogue between representatives in the fields of public health and medicine, engineering, physical and social sciences, and emergency management. This unique philosophy is applied to the education and training of practitioners and researchers, collaborative interdisciplinary research, and service to the community. Graduate interns are placed in emergency and disaster units of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the American Red Cross, and the World Health Organization.
P R O J E C T S LOS ANGELES COUNTY COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE PROJECT The LACCDR project is a collaborative effort sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) that aims to engage community-based organizations in providing leadership and partnership to promote community resilience in the face of public health emergencies such as pandemics and disasters. Community Resilience is the capacity of the community as a whole to prepare for, respond to and recover from adverse events and unanticipated crises that threaten the health of all.
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PRIORITIZING COOLING INFRUSTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS FOR VULNERABLE SOUTHWEST POPULATIONS The objective of this collaborative research project is to develop methods for joining social and built environment vulnerability into a single framework, and will create a prioritization framework for selecting investments in cooling infrastructure that maximize the reduction in vulnerability. The vulnerability of the United States Southwest populations to heat is a result of both a city's socio-demographic profile and the built environment, yet little is known about the latter. The research team will develop novel methods for coupling socio-demographic characteristics with new infrastructure vulnerability measures to assess the nexus of coupled sociotechnical risk, using Los Angeles and Phoenix as case studies. The infrastructure vulnerability indices will assess a neighborhood's access to cooling resources whether that be air conditioning, building passive cooling, access to community refuge and hydration centers, as well as disruptions of electricity supply. With the coupled socio-technical vulnerability framework, the team will develop strategies for prioritizing infrastructure upgrades.
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The mission of the Center for the Advancement of Gerontological Nursing Science (AGNS) is to improve the everyday lives of older individuals through basic and translational nursing research and education focused on facilitating the best possible aging. Three major aims include:
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• Contribute to the advancement of gerontological nursing science focused on person, environment, the person/environment interface, and human responses. • Use gerontological nursing science as the basis for educating nursing faculty about nursing care focused on improving the everyday lives of older individuals. • Cultivate collaborative multidisciplinary partnerships for the development of new knowledge and for translating research into practice.
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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LATINO HEALTH AND CULTURE DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 730 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Through its various projects, the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture/Centro de Estudios de Salud y Cultura Latina (CESLA) provides a focus for teaching, research, evaluation, technical assistance, and training in different facets of Latino health. In addition, CESLA has informed the public about Latino demographics and issues related to welfare and immigration.
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COMMUNITY-BASED DENTISTRY FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY Wilson-Jennings-Bloomfield UCLA Venice Dental Center 323 S. Lincoln Blvd. Venice, CA 90291 The Wilson-Jennings-Bloomfield UCLA Venice Dental Center has been providing dental care to the Venice community for over four decades. This 27-chair, modern facility provides dental services for all patients, from birth to geriatric. Services are provided by dental students, Advanced Education in General Dentistry residents, Pediatric Dentistry residents, Orthodontics residents, or a faculty oral & maxillofacial surgeon. Services include examinations, x-rays, cleanings, fillings, esthetic dentistry, extractions, crowns/bridges, implant dentistry, orthodontics, periodontics, and root canals. During 2012-2013, the center provided 11,973 patient visits. Donations from the Schutz Engel Trust help to support a portion of the patient care activity. Currently, the center is also utilizing a grant from the Nicholas Foundation to support patient care.
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community health and advocacy. Beyond routine services such as examinations, x-rays, cleanings, fillings, and extractions. for children from infancy to adolescence, the clinic also offers advanced sedation options for the fearful or uncooperative child. Residents can safely perform treatment for children under nitrous oxide analgesia, oral conscious sedation, and intravenous general anesthesia. Community engagement is an important part of the residency program and residents routinely participate in events held with various community partners such as the Venice Family Clinic and the Santa Monica Malibu Head Start program. Another partner in community engagement is the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, which provides books to patients in an effort to promote both literacy and health.
DENTAL SCREENING AND CLINIC DAY FOR WILSHIRE STATE BANK CUSTOMERS SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
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The UCLA School of Dentistry and Wilshire State Bank have partnered to provide oral health screening exams, oral care instructions and dental home care kits to individuals who are in dire need of dental care. Furthermore, the treatment plans generated by these screenings will create an opportunity to receive definitive dental care and oral health education at the UCLA School of Dentistry's clinics.
Nancy Reifel Phone: 310-825-4320 Fax: 310-794-7734 nreifel@dentistry.ucla.edu http://www.dentistry.ucla.edu/
P R O J E C T S WILSHIRE STATE BANK Wilshire State Bank is focused on serving wide multi-ethnic communities and lending hands to assist underserved and under-privileged in surrounding neighborhood in which they serve. Wilshire State Bank's mission is to be the leading community bank serving multi-ethnic business owners in key U.S. markets. Focusing upon professionalism, teamwork, and service excellence, Wilshire State Bank strives to deliver the highest level of customer-focused financial services to benefit their customers, employees, shareholders and the communities they serve.
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DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 10833 Le Conte Ave. Box 951683 Los Angeles, CA 90024 The UCLA Department of Family Medicine has a tripartite mission to educate medical students, residents, and practicing physicians; to provide health care in a number of diverse clinical settings; and to perform research in health services, education, and clinical medicine relevant to urban family medicine. It has significant involvement in all four years of the medical school curriculum, including the doctoring program in Years 1 and 2, a required month-long clinical clerkship for all 160 third-year medical students and electives in Year 4. It sponsors a three-year family medicine residency-training program composed of 36 residents. The residency is based at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center; it also utilizes Olive View-UCLA, a county hospital, as a major training site for the residency. The department operates two teaching Family Health Centers (FHCs), the Les Kelley FHC, which is located in a federally designated health professional shortage area (HPSA) in Santa Monica and the Mid-Valley FHC, which is located within a county clinic in Van Nuys that serves a population in which 70 percent lack public or private insurance. Collectively, the two health centers provide more than 45,000 patient visits a year. Further, the department runs an asthma-diagnostic and -screening program for the 3,200 middle school students enrolled in Sun Valley Middle School, a Los Angeles Unified school located three miles east of Van Nuys that serves a low-income immigrant population that is 95 percent Hispanic. Associated with this is a weekly community walking program to address obesity; it currently involves 10 walking groups with more than 200 regular participants. The department began an innovative program targeting unlicensed Hispanic physicians who were trained in Latin America but are working here as non-physicians. The 12- to 14-month program prepares them to pass the three national medical board exams that are required before entering residency training in family medicine. The program currently has more than 28 enrolled; nine are expected to begin training in family medicine programs in the next academic year. Finally, the department operates a health research division that includes three National Research Service Award Fellows and two Robert Woods Johnson Clinical Scholars, as well as a Sports Medicine fellowship with two fellows. The research division has several interventional projects, including one that addresses the needs of minority women with breast cancer, a program to treat homeless patients with Hepatitis C, risk reduction for homeless youth at risk for HIV, chronic health conditions in migrant farmworkers, and racial and ethnic disparities among minority populations in South Los Angeles., among others.
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Edmond R. Hewlett Phone: 310-825-7097 Fax: 310-825-2536 ehewlett@dentistry.ucla.edu
P R O J E C T S PHILANTHROPY COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN STUDENT DENTAL ASSOCIATION UCLA CHAPTER
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San Fernando, CA 91340
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Dental students under the supervision of a faculty practitioner provide general dentistry services to the community surrounding Mission Community Hospital and the San Fernando Community Health Center. Services
Fax: 310-206-2688 jcrall@dentistry.ucla.edu
include examination, x-rays, cleanings, fillings, extractions, crowns, and bleaching.
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Happy Feet Clinic unites UCLA undergraduates and medical students from the PRIME (Program in Medical Education) program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to provide some comfort to the homeless one foot at a time by setting up podiatry clinics at multiple sites in Los Angeles, including Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles., Ocean Park Community Center in Santa Monica and New Image Emer-
Katie Morett Phone: 530-209-5255 happyfeetclinic@gmail.com http://www.uclahappyfeetclinic.org/
gency Shelter in South L.A.
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Visitors to the daylong clinic get a foot wash in a tub of warm, soapy water, followed by a foot exam. Students work alongside faculty mentors to check for everything from fungal infections to diabetes. Some foot ailments are remedied immediately and often simple services prevent major foot problems such as leg amputations. A medical ""education station"" provides fresh socks, shoes and other essential foot care products. The program was started in 2008 by 17 PRIME students who wanted to create a community-based initiative that would address a real need and add to the existing network of resources and services. To keep the program sustainable, UCLA undergrads were recruited and given the opportunity to continually improve and host foot clinics for Los Angeles' homeless.
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HEALTH FAIRS SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY 10833 Le Conte Ave. CHS Box 951668 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Each year, students provide free services at approximately 20 health fairs in the greater Los Angeles area under the supervision of faculty members Dr. Nancy Reifel and Dr. Vladimir Spolsky. Each academic year, dental school students and faculty screened the oral health of approximately 1,400 adults and children, providing basic oral health and preventive services.
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Mark S. Litwin CONTACT Mary Zavala Phone: 310-794-2480 Fax: 310-794-6789 mzavala@mednet.ucla.edu www.california-impact.org
IMPROVING ACCESS, COUNSELING, AND TREATMENT FOR CALIFORNIANS WITH PROSTATE CANCER DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE P.O. Box 957180 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Improving Access, Counseling, and Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer (IMPACT) was founded in 2001 and is run under the direction of Dr. Mark Litwin, Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Urology, and Dr. James Orecklin, also of the Department of Urology. Funded by a contract with the California Department of Health Care Services, IMPACT's mission is to provide free, high-quality prostate cancer treatment services to low-income, uninsured men throughout the state of California. Eligible participants are over the age of 18, residents of the state of California, have incomes at or below 200 percent of the FPL, and have little or no health insurance. Through our network of more than 700 contracted healthcare providers statewide, IMPACT provides free (to the patient) prostate cancer treatment to patients in their own local communities. IMPACT also offers case management and health education services, which are headquartered at UCLA, but provided telephonically to enrolled men across the state.
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Julie Friedman
911 Broxton Ave, 1st Floor Los Angeles, CA 90024
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The Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Education & Resource Center (WHERC) provides education on physical, psychological, and social issues that impact girls’ and women’s health and well being, including prevention, diseases and conditions, and treatment issues. Advocacy Through Education is an initiative developed by the WHERC to inform leaders in business, government, academia, and our community on critically impor-
Julie Friedman Phone: 310-794-8062 Fax: 310-794-8170 jafriedman@mednet.ucla.edu
tant issues in women’s health. These programs are implemented in partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Women’s Health. Topics that are addressed impact women’s health on social, political, and/or economic levels. A significant aspect of the center’s work is its outreach to under served and marginalized populations in the greater Los Angeles area. This wide-ranging outreach program combines projects that educate, empower, and foster partnerships with well established and grass roots community entities, as well as government organizations. Key elements of the outreach program include addressing issues including women's reproductive health and the environment, teen intimate partner violence prevention, human trafficking, and training health professionals in cultural competencies.
LABOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH PROGRAM
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Linda Delp
10945 Le Conte Ave., Suite 2107 Box 951478
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Karen Murray
Founded in 1978, the Labor Occupational Safety & Health (LOSH) Program is a nationally recognized center promoting safe workplaces through teaching and education, research, and policy advocacy. LOSH collaborates with workers, unions, community organizations, employers, academics, students, governmental representatives, and health professionals. Initiatives include health and safety training and education for low-
Phone: 310-794-5964 Fax: 310-794-6403 kmurray@irle.ucla.edu http://www.losh.ucla.edu
income, minority, immigrant, and young workers; public advocacy; and participation in industry-wide research relating to occupational and environmental health policy issues in California.
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Jennifer Menjivar CONTACT Jennifer Menjivar Phone: 310-794-8173 Fax: 310-267-4807 lennoxhealthfair1@gmail.com http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/stu dents/wordpress/lmsa/ ?page_id=969
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Lila Guirgui CONTACT Lila Guirgui Phone: 213-342-0109 Fax: 213-342-0255 lilaguirguis@all4kids.org http://www.magnoliaplacela.org/
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LENNOX HEALTH FAIR DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 10833 Le Conte Ave #12138 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The health fairs, organized by a team of six coordinators from the Latino Medical Student Association (UCLA/Charles R. Drew University chapter), are held twice a year (once in the fall and once in spring) at one of the six schools in the district. The volunteers, who include physicians, students and community workers, range from first and second year medical students who serve as chaperones, help patients with intake forms and take vital readings, to third and fourth year medical students and physicians who interview and consult with patients.
MAGNOLIA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Magnolia Family Center 1910 Magnolia Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90007 The Magnolia Community Initiative (MCI) aims to galvanize a community to support, nurture and educate 35,000 children living in a low income area of Los Angeles. The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities supports a learning system that encourages experimentation to change outcomes for the population of children and their families. The UCLA Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is collaborating with the Magnolia Initiative to link investigators from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA with community partners in applied research in health behaviors, health care and community mobilization. The Magnolia Initiative operates within Los Angeles' West Adams, Pico Union and North Figueroa Corridor neighborhoods. The project draws together more than 70 county, city and community organizations to create a safe, supportive system to help not only the children, but the entire community.
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MATTEL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL UCLA DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 757 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095
Emily Manczuk Phone: 310-825-5095
Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA ranks among the nation’s top pediatric hospitals, according to U.S. News &
Fax: 310-206-4584
World Report’s “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals”. The I.M. Pei-designed hospital provides a healing en-
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vironment for family-centered care of seriously ill and injured children. Affiliated with David Geffen School
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of Medicine at UCLA, teaching, training, and research translate into improved treatment for children locally, nationally, and around the world.
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An extensive range of services, from well-child care to the treatment of the most difficult and life-threatening illnesses are available at the UCLA Children’s Health Center located at 200 Medical Plaza, Suite 265 in the Peter Morton Medical Building. Programs that treat children with special diseases and disorders are: • gastroenterology and nutritional disorders • kidney disease • cardiology • diabetes • HIV infection • neonatal intensive care • genetics • childhood cancer • neurological disorders • epilepsy surgery • adolescent medicine • cystic fibrosis • New Fit for Healthy Weight, a new multidisciplinary approach to treating overweight children • New Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center includes a multidisciplinary team of experts providing quality care to children with (IBD) In addition, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA specializes in bone marrow, heart, liver, and kidney transplantation. The Children’s Health Center includes a new infusion center, Dina’s Beach, caring for children in need of chemotherapy, IVIG, hydration, allergens and other pediatric therapies. Internationally, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA has doctors and research projects in 40 countries on five continents. The hospital’s International Network Initiative is a global network of pediatric specialists from many disciplines with the ultimate goal of speeding up healthcare innovation and scientific breakthroughs. Many faculty provide charitable health care to the needy in countries such as Guatemala, Peru, and India.
P R O J E C T S CHILDREN’S COMFORT CARE PROGRAM The Children’s Comfort Care Program (CCCP) at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA is dedicated to the improved treatment of a child’s pain and palliative care. Working within the healthcare community and reaching out to the community, the CCCP hopes to promote awareness, improve quality of care, and support research for girls and boys with serious illnesses.
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NANOPEDIATRICS EXPLORES NANOTECHNOLOGY IN DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA has launched the UCLA NanoPediatrics Program, one of the world’s first programs dedicated solely to namomedicine and pediatric patients. Projects currently underway at UCLA include the development and application of nanodiagnostic tools such as DNA-based newborn screening tests for genetic abnormalities, the development of a new generation of nanodevices for the treatment of children with genetic diseases and cancer, and the investigation of the use of nanoparticles for diagnostic imaging both during pregnancy and after birth.
NATIONAL CHILDREN’S STUDY The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities has been selected as one of 22 new study centers for the National Children’s Study, a nationwide project designed to assess the effects of environmental and genetic factors on children’s health in the United States. The study center will manage local participant recruitment and data collection for the largest study of child health ever conducted in the United States.
TRANSITIONAL CARE PROGRAM FOR ADOLESCENTS & YOUNG ADULTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE UCLA’s Division of Pediatric Cardiology has combined their expertise with that of the Ahmanson/Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center to create the UCLA Transitional Care Program for Adolescents & Young Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. The program provides a wide range of activities and services to assist teens with congenital heart disease and their family to transition to adult medical care. Youth between the ages of 12 -18 who were born with congenital heart disease, their parents, and their siblings can participate.
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OPERATION MEND DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 924 Westwood Blvd., Ste. 1040
CONTACT Melanie Gideon Phone: 310-267-2110 Fax: 310-883-3724 mgideon@mednet.ucla.edu http://operationmend.ucla.edu/
Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA Operation Mend is a groundbreaking program that provides returning military personnel with severe facial and other medical injuries access to the nation's top plastic and reconstructive surgeons, as well as comprehensive medical and mental-health support for the wounded and their families. In a partnership with Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), a leading burn and rehabilitation center in San Antonio, Texas, the V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, and UCLA Health System, Operation Mend started with facial surgeries. The program has since expanded in order to optimize the healing of body, mind, and spirit. In addition to plastic and reconstructive surgery, mental-health support (for warriors and their families), orthopaedic reconstruction for severely damaged limbs, urologic treatment, otolaryngological care, the examination and treatment of reproductive issues, repair of airways, and design of new prosthetic ears are also provided.
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Nancy Reifel
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Nancy Reifel
Under this program, the school provides oversight and support for fluoride sealant programs. Dental students and faculty annually provide sealants to more than 30 children in Inyo County.
Phone: 310-825-4320 Fax: 310-794-7734 nreifel@dentistry.ucla.edu
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The Charles Drew University Clinical Research Center/UCLA/RAND Project Export mission is to establish the knowledge base necessary to reduce diabetes, depression and other related health disparities among lowincome African Americans and Latinos, and also build bridges in minority health by training, educating and implementing pilot programs in these communities.
Shanna Choi Phone: 310-794-2284 Fax: 310-794-0766 shannachoi@mednet.ucla.edu http://www.hsrcenter.ucla.edu/re-
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10833 Le Conte Avenue CHS Box 951668
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Ting-Ling Chang
The school has Affiliation Agreements with Saban Free Clinic and the Veterans Administration (VA) for dental students to rotate to the respective sites to treat, under the supervision of school faculty, patients who require dentures.
Phone: 310-825-5889 Fax: 310-825-6345 tlchang@dentistry.ucla.edu
Approximately 152 patients per year receive free partial or full dentures as a direct result of this program. The VA system patient population is mostly elderly and male. The Saban Free Clinic population is indigent, and sometimes homeless, as well as the uninsured.
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Janet C. Frank CONTACT Janet C. Frank Phone: 310-312-0536 Fax: 310-312-0546 jcfrank@ucla.edu http://www.rcmar.ucla.edu/
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RESOURCE CENTERS FOR MINORITY AGING RESEARCH DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 10945 Le Conte Ave., Ste. 2339 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) aims to decrease health disparities between minority and non-minority older adults by increasing the number of minority academicians who conduct healthservices research on older adults in partnership with community-based organizations who service them. The RCMAR National Coordinating Center and the RCMAR Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (CHIME) are housed in the David Geffen School of Medicine's Department of Medicine. RCMAR/CHIME's leadership and minority academicians are either faculty or affiliated with the Department of Medicine.
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Mary Marfisee CONTACT Mary Marfisee Phone: 310-825-1048 Fax: 310-267-2529 mmarfisee@mednet.ucla.edu
STUDENT RUN HOMELESS CLINICS DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 10833 Le Conte Ave. P.O. Box 951683 Los Angeles, CA 90024 The Student Run Homeless Clinics is a student-managed service learning outreach project of the UCLA Department of Family Medicine. Throughout the year, UCLA medical students, supervised by faculty, provide free primary care to the homeless population of West Los Angeles, especially at the Santa Monica ShelterSamoshel and the West Los Angeles Winter Shelter. This program has run continuously since 1989, serving thousands of persons who would otherwise have no access to medical care. The experience encourages medical students to increase their understanding of the health care needs of vulnerable populations.
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Richard L. Seidman CONTACT Richard L. Seidman Phone: 818-432-4400 Fax: 818-764-7930 https://www.nevhc.org/
SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 7223 N. Fair Ave. Sun Valley, CA 91352 The Sun Valley Community Health Center is a unique partnership between the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles County, the LAUSD and the Northeast Valley Health Corporation, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). The center has 13 exam rooms, a dispensary, lab, four counseling offices and education and training rooms and is one of the largest and most comprehensive school-based clinics in the United States. Walking groups are offered for local residents.
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THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH
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Carmen E. Reyes
The Los Angeles Community Academic Partnership for Research in Aging (L.A. CAPRA) Center implements programs to help older adults stay active and healthy as long as possible.
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Los Angeles Department of Aging and Partners in Care Foundation. The L.A. CAPRA Center facilitates and implements community-partnered research across Los Angeles, one of the largest and most ethnically diverse urban centers in the United States. The mission is to launch and test innovative programs that will improve the quality of life of lower income older adults. The center collaborates with local leadership at community sites (such as senior centers) to implement these programs.
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The UCLA AIDS Institute coordinates all of the AIDS research, clinical programs, and educational activities at the university and its affiliated teaching hospitals. The institute’s programs promote and facilitate collaborations among researchers, clinicians, industry, foundations, and the community to deal more effectively with the challenge of AIDS.
Helen Brown Phone: 310-825-4750 Fax: 310-267-1875 gbrown@mednet.ucla.edu www.aidsinstitute.ucla.edu
P R O J E C T S UCLA CLINICAL AIDS RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER The UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research & Education (CARE) offers a comprehensive program of primary medical-care services for persons with HIV. The outpatient clinic offers evaluation and counseling, and makes available the full resources of the UCLA Medical Center. The CARE Center also provides services ranging from evaluation of asymptomatic, seropositive individuals to the management of patients with HIV-related opportunistic infections, malignancies, and neurologic disorders.
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David Gere CONTACT Elisabeth Nails Phone: 310-825-6938 Fax: 310-825-7507 e.nails@arts.ucla.edu http://artglobalhealth.org/
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UCLA ART & GLOBAL HEALTH CENTER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & ARCHITECTURE 8260 Broad Art Center 240 Charles Young Dr. N. Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Art & Global Health Center nurtures a global network of artists, students, researchers, health professionals, and community health advocates working to improve public health. The center is rooted in an innovative premise that the arts and health of the community are intrinsically related. We believe that including artists at the table leads to the development of more effective and appropriate strategies to address public health concerns. The HIV epidemic has been a core focus of the center since its inception, building on the strong foundation of artistic intervention during the first AIDS outbreak. Our work with HIV has naturally branched into related areas, including comprehensive sexual health, women’s empowerment, gender equality, and arts-based public health interventions in general.
P R O J E C T S ARE YOU WELL? In 2004, a health communication organization called Nalamdana—meaning “Are You Well?” in Tamil— began collaborating with the Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine in Tambaram, India, just outside Chennai, to fill a communication gap at the hospital. Now, a decade later, Are You Well? has evolved into a leader in its field, using theater, music, and radio as tools for HIV education, treatment adherence, stigma reduction, and to promote an atmosphere of healing. The key to success has been a close working relationship between medical staff and artists. In conversation with the hospital’s director, doctors, nurses, and counselors, Are You Well? devises brief interactive role-plays and longer evening plays on issues relevant to people living with HIV and AIDS. The plays entertain and generate goodwill among a particularly appreciative and eager audience of hospital patients. In addition to serving in-patients, the project fills a communication vacuum for up to 700 new patients who arrive at the hospital each day.
ART & GLOBAL HEALTH CENTER-AFRICA The Art & Global Health Center – Africa educates, mobilizes, inspires, and encourages dialogue through artsbased health interventions in African universities, secondary schools and in rural and urban poor communities throughout the South-East Africa region. The Center develops and supports innovative programs aimed at addressing vital HIV and AIDS-related issues including gender inequality, stigma, and socio-economic challenges. AGHC-Africa programs empower people to take control over their health through prevention, testing, and treatment. The Center collaborates with local, regional, and international organizations to transform lives and improve health outcomes for Southern Africans.
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ARTS-BASED, MULTIPLE-INTERVENTION, PEER-EDUCATION Arts-based, Multiple-Intervention, Peer-Education (AMP!) is an innovative program created collaboratively by the UCLA Art & Global Health Center and the LAUSD HIV/AIDS Prevention Unit. AMP! jolts the baseline 9th grade sexual health curriculum by providing an arts-based “inoculation,” to prevent HIV and STI’s and improve lifelong health outcomes. The AMP! model, informed by Social Cognitive Theory, catalyzes actual behavior change. A 2010 evaluation conducted in Los Angeles showed a 50% increase in students who reported feeling compassion towards people living with HIV/AIDS and double the number of students who knew where to get a local HIV test. Most significantly, after experiencing AMP!, sexually active students were four times more likely to get tested for HIV. Through AMP! sexual health education becomes a transformational experience, with students stepping up as advocates for their own sexual health. Thanks in part to funding from the Ford Foundation and David & Linda Shaheen Foundation, we are beginning to adapt AMP! for wide-spread dissemination. To date successfully pilot programs have taken place in Atlanta, Georgia and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with plans underway to launch new pilots in Mexico City, Washington, D.C. and Zomba, Malawi.
THROUGH POSITIVE EYES Through Positive Eyes is a digital media project that shares the personal stories of HIV+ people in order to reduce stigma, empower those living with the disease and underline the global impact of HIV and AIDS. Led by award-winning artists, Through Positive Eyes is an long-term collaboration engaging People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in six cities that show the diversity of the AIDS crisis, including Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Together with our partner community organizations in each city, these materials have been used to create city-wide outreach campaigns, documentary films and art exhibitions that have toured in communities in the United States, Southern Africa, and Europe.
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Staffed by a physician, a registered nurse, and a patient-service worker, the RV-style UCLA Breathmobile visits schools in the Long Beach and Wilmington area, with follow-up visits every six to eight weeks providing free asthma and allergy diagnosis, education and treatment in the community.
Phone: 310-794-5561 Fax: 310-825-9832 migarcia@mednet.ucla.edu http://aafacal.org/programs/breath mobiles/breathmobiles-around-thecountry
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UCLA CENTER FOR CLINICAL AIDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 9911 W. Pico Blvd., Ste. 980 Los Angeles, CA 90035 The UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) provides state-of-the-art medical care and conducts clinical trials for people living with HIV and AIDS. CARE reaches out to the community with educational seminars, clinical trials and referrals. CARE Center faculty and staff go to community centers, support groups and research symposia to present updates and educational sessions on current treatment research and HIV prevention. The center's clinical trials are open to anyone who meets the enrollment criteria. Study visits are free and upon completion of the study, the CARE Center tries to link participants to ongoing treatment and care.
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Steven Dubinett CONTACT Steven Dubinett Phone: 310-794-2874 Fax: 310-267-2829 ois@ctsi.ucla.edu http://www.ctsi.ucla.edu/
UCLA CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 10833 Le Conte Ave., 16-111 CHS Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) consists of four partnered institutions—Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and the University of California, Los Angeles—that are working together to uncover solutions for the health problems that are most prevalent to the diverse population of Los Angeles County. CTSI has created strong transdisciplinary teams to tackle the challenges associated with preventing and treating mental health, diabetes and obesity, cardiovascular disease and stroke, cancer, addiction, and HIV. We are cultivating collaboration and data sharing between our network of leading scientific investigators, clinicians, and community leaders. This flow of information creates a research continuum that works to enrich a community, rather than plainly inform it. UCLA CTSI is a resource to scientific investigators. By providing educational programs and grant resources, CTSI will equip the research field with scientists who are prepared to conduct comprehensive research by integrating elements such as biostatistics and ethics into a patient-oriented research model for a study design with broader scope. Translational researchers are trained to utilize what they’ve learned from basic research studies and apply it to findings that yield a practical solution. After making a scientific discovery, UCLA CTSI provides continual support through clinical trials, to the bedside where patients receive the newly developed therapies. If needed, they follow their findings back to the research bench for further development.
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In addition to supporting the research, UCLA CTSI has formed several partnerships with local schools, programs, health clinics, and resource centers. This bidirectional collaboration with our community partners will ensure that new scientific discoveries are relevant to the community’s needs. UCLA CTSI is a part of the 60 participating universities and medical centers that have been honored with Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH created the CTSAs to enhance the “bench-to-bedside” sentiment of translational research and encourage researchers to conduct their work in a manner that leads to practical results.
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Walter Ling
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The research conducted by Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) investigators includes studies conducted at UCLA and in the field. A recently established Outpatient Clinical Research Center (OCRC) provides an on-site research facility for clinical trials, and will be expanded in the future to include behavioral research. For more information regarding ISAP projects, visit at www.uclaisap.org.
Walter Ling Phone: 310-267-5888 Fax: 310-312-0552 lwalter@ucla.edu http://www.uclaisap.org/
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The UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity was established in 2004 to address the increasing disparities in health status and health care in the United States. The center conducts community-based participatory intervention research in health promotion and disease prevention to mitigate disparities. The center also facilitates community and academic partnerships in research, trains future leaders in health disparities research, provides technical assistance for implementing evidence-based programs that build on community needs and existing assets, and hosts annual community symposia on critical public health issues. This “cen-
Denise Woods Phone: 310-206-8483 Fax: 310-206-3566 aherrmann@ucla.edu, denise.woods@ucla.edu http://healthequity.ucla.edu/
ter without walls” includes members from academia, government, and private/non-profit organizations to enable more effective collaboration with community partners to reduce health disparities across the lifespan.
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10833 Le Conte Ave #12138
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The UCLA Mobile Clinic Project brings weekly health care and social services to the homeless and indigent in four locations.
http://www.mcp.ucla.edu/ The project includes students from UCLA's schools of Medicine, Public Health, Law, and Letters and Science to help with medical, social and legal needs. The Mobile Clinic, launched in 2002, is run by students with oversight from an attending physician. Volunteers record medical histories, provide treatment or referrals, dispense medication and supplies and help clients with social or legal issues. Services range from basic check-ups and disease prevention and education to treatment of cuts, infections, coughs, and common health issues.
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Anne L. Coleman CONTACT Faye Oelrich
UCLA MOBILE EYE CLINIC DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 3-237 Jules Stein Eye Institute 100 Stein Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone: 310-825-2195 Fax: 310-206-7773
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given basic eye examinations by ophthalmologists and, if needed, are referred for further treatment. The program, which began in 1975 and is believed to be the only one of its kind in Los Angeles, examines nearly 4,000 people each year. Eye examinations are important because eye disease may be present before any changes in vision are noticed. Each year the UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic refers approximately 600 people for further evaluation and/or treatment. Nearly 1,000 prescriptions for eyeglasses are written, and free eyeglasses are provided for 250 children.
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Adeline Nyamathi CONTACT Adeline Nyamathi Phone: 310-825-8405 Fax: 310-206-7433 anyamath@sonnet.ucla.edu
UCLA NURSING NETWORK SCHOOL OF NURSING 2-250 Factor Building Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Nursing Network is a research office that conducts studies in the Los Angeles area. Studies have focused on tuberculosis, Hepatitis, and HIV prevention in the homeless population.
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The UCLA Prevention Research Center was created in 1998 as a Prevention Research Center by the Centers
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1. Address the health needs of individuals and communities across the life-span, with a focus on undeserved and minority populations; 2. Build empowering relationships with partners in Los Angeles and beyond; and 3. Directly benefit communities and/or transform local, state, and national policies. The Center Director and Principal Investigator is Roshan Bastani, PhD, the Director for Research and Operations is Paul Chung, MD, MS; and the Center Project Director is Burt Cowgill, PhD.
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Colleen Keenan
For 26 years, the UCLA School of Nursing Health Center has provided primary health care services to the homeless and indigent population on Skid Row. The Health Clinic is a nurse-managed facility at the Union Rescue Mission – one of the oldest and largest of its kind in the United States. Licensed by the state as a Community Health Center, the Health Clinic is devoted to caring for the primary health needs of homeless adults, children, and the elderly. It is also the only shelter-based health clinic in the city that provides health care for
Phone: 310-206-5878 Fax: 310-206-3241 ckeenan@sonnet.ucla.edu http://nursing.ucla.edu/ site.cfm?id=125
women and children. Last year, the Health Clinic provided comprehensive health services to more than 2,500 members of the homeless community with a total of 8,600 patient visits. The center manages both acute and chronic illnesses. Patients are seen on a drop-in basis for a wide variety of health care servicess including primary care management of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and dermatologic conditions. Health education, case management, medications, diagnostic services, and preventive health care services are also provided. The center is open five days per week from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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UCLA TIES FOR FAMILIES DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 1000 Veteran Ave. Box 957142 Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA TIES for Families optimizes the growth and development of children from birth to 18 with special needs who are, or have been, in foster care, and are in some stage of adoptive or other permanency planning option. The program reduces barriers to permanency for the children by preparing foster and/or adoptive parents, supporting the children and their foster and/or adoptive families with an array of interdisciplinary services, and educating the professionals working with them. TIES for Families provides children and their families countywide with high-quality, accessible, and free comprehensive services to address the wide range of psychological, psychiatric, social, and educational needs presented by children and families. Because of the successful outcome of building robust families for the children, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (DMH) has implemented a satellite of the project in the South Bay. Both sites together serve about 200 children and their families a year.
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CONTACT Audra Langley Phone: 310-825-8234 Fax: 310-267-2529 alangley@mednet.ucla.edu http://fm.mednet.ucla.edu
Box 951683 Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA medical and dental students work together each month to provide free dental and health screenings and referrals for homeless families at Salvation Army locations in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica. This is the first joint medical-dental student clinic for homeless patients in the country.
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VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
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Venice Family Clinic is a community-based, nonprofit, free clinic with nine sites in Venice, Santa Monica, Mar Vista, Inglewood, and Culver City. Its mission is to provide free, quality health care to people in need. The clinic provides a medical home to more than 24,400 low-income and uninsured people, who make over 106,000 primary care, specialty care, mental health, and dental visits annually. Nearly 2,100 volunteers, including more than 500 physicians, donate their time each year. Services include primary care for children, teens, and adults;
Myles Spar Phone: 310-392-8636 Fax: 310-392-6642 VFCinfo@mednet.ucla.edu http://www.venicefamilyclinic.org
pediatric care and child-development services; health and wellness; integrative medicine, including acupuncture and chiropractic care for chronic pain management; women’s health services; chronic disease management; homeless health care; vision care; dental care; HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, and treatment; a range of specialty care (such as audiology, cardiology, dermatology, ear/nose/throat, endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurology, optometry, ophthalmology, orthopedics, psychiatry, and rheumatology); medications; public health insurance enrollment; short-term individual and family counseling; and domestic violence intervention. The partnership between UCLA and Venice Family Clinic dates back to the clinic's founding in 1970. Clinic co-founder Mayer B. Davidson, M.D., then a faculty member of the UCLA School of Medicine, recruited other UCLA physicians to join him and clinic founder Phillip Rossman, M.D., evenings and weekends in borrowed space at the UCLA Venice Dental Clinic to provide free medical services to people who had no other access to health care. Since then, Venice Family Clinic has grown into the largest free clinic in the United States and an important partner in UCLA's mission of research, teaching, and public service. Although Venice Family Clinic is a separate nonprofit organization with its own Board of Directors, an affiliation agreement with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA enables Venice Family Clinic to function as an administrative department and clinical program of the medical school. This affiliation helps the medical school train fellows, residents, interns, and other students in community medicine and address its mission of public service through Venice Family Clinic’s facilities and programs. It also provides Venice Family Clinic with a remarkable array of resources, which enables the clinic to provide high-quality care to its patients. Venice Family Clinic also has relationships with a wide range of other UCLA schools and departments across campus.
P R O J E C T S HOMELESS HEALTH CARE Venice Family Clinic has provided primary care to the homeless since its founding in 1970. In 1985, the clinic was one of the first community primary care clinics to develop a comprehensive homeless health care program, funded at the time by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Today, the clinic provides comprehensive primary health care services to approximately 3,800 homeless men, women, and children, who together comprise 15 percent of the clinic’s patient population. The clinic also recently launched a “street medicine” program targeting the most service-resistant members of the homeless community in areas where they reside, and a respite care program with partner agency OPCC in Santa Monica. Specialty care, social services, and advocacy are provided through a network of partner organizations and providers. 101 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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Stefanie Adcock
The UCLA Confucius Institute promotes the teaching and learning of Chinese language, history, and culture throughout Southern California. The institute works with partner schools and other organizations to offer classes to students in K-12 and at the college level, to train language educators in Mandarin and to provide opportunities for study abroad. Resources available to the public include advanced translation programs, an
Phone: 310-267-4121 Fax: 310-825-1528 stadcock@international.ucla.edu http://www.confucius.ucla.edu
extensive online lending library and a guide to a wide range of other China-related programs in Southern California. For more information, visit confucius.ucla.edu. The UCLA Confucius Institute was established in 2007 in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is among more than 400 Confucius Institutes worldwide. Confucius Institutes are a global outreach of Hanban, the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, based in Beijing and funded by the People’s Republic of China.
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Noel Shimizu
The Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies at UCLA is dedicated to promoting and enhancing research on Japan. The Terasaki Center primarily supports faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate students, and shares its expertise by sponsoring campus and community programming. To join the mailing list, please visit www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/subscribe.asp.
Phone: 310-825-8681 Fax: 310-206-3555 japancenter@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/ japan
P R O J E C T S ANNUAL NIKKEI BRUIN CONFERENCE AND ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM The Nikkei Bruin Conference was established in 1992 and provides a public forum to present issues facing the United States and Japan by bringing world renowned scholars, journalists, and leaders in the field of Japanese studies to UCLA. The Graduate Symposium was established in 1994 to provide graduate students and faculty a forum in which to discuss the extent to which notions of power and resistance are useful in forwarding our understanding of Japanese culture, politics, and history. For more information: http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/ study/gradsymposiums.asp. 103 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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MONDAY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Distinguished speakers from across the nation and overseas speak on diverse topics. TERASAKI COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM Grants are made available annually for projects that educate the community about Japan and Japanese American heritage. For more information, visit www.international.ucla.edu/japan/study/terasaki.asp.
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Susan Slyomovics CONTACT Johanna Romero Phone: 310-825-1181 Fax: 310-206-2406 cnes@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/ cnes
THE UCLA G.E. VON GRUNEBAUM CENTER FOR NEAR EASTERN STUDIES UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 10286 Bunche Hall Box 951480 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) fosters a greater understanding of the Middle East and Islamic studies through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. CNES events include concerts, museum exhibitions and intensive training programs for K-12 teachers. Faculty members make available to the public and to the media scholarly information about the Middle East. Through community outreach, the center is a key public resource on all aspects of the Middle East and Islamic studies. It also publishes audio podcasts and video recordings of sponsored events on the CNES website. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/cnes.
P R O J E C T S HERITAGE LANGUAGE TEACHER WORKSHOP The G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies cosponsors an annual workshop designed to help language teachers face the challenge of teaching heritage language students. It will prepare them to understand the differences between teaching L2 and HL learners, the issues involved in heritage language teaching, and how to address them. Participants will explore ways to design their own curriculum and select materials and assessment tools. The sponsored languages are: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. To learn more, please visit: http://www.nhlrc.ucla.edu/
LISTEN TO LEARN-AN INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE RESOURCE FOR ARABIC, PERSIAN, AND TURKISH Listen to Learn is a CNES-produced interactive multimedia language resource for Arabic (Lebanese, Iraqi, Moroccan, Egyptian, Modern Standard Arabic), Persian, and Turkish. Please visit "Listen to Learn" at http://listentolearn.international.ucla.edu.
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SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL LANGUAGE PROGRAM The G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies cosponsors an annual Summer High School Language Program geared toward students who speak one of the offered languages at home and want to improve their writing and reading skills. To learn more, please visit: http://hslanguages.ucla.edu.
THE BILINGUAL LECTURE SERIES ON IRAN The Center for Near Easten Studies' Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran was launched in 2002-03 to address the Center's primary goals: to promote Middle Eastern languages not only as subjects of study but also as vehicles for intellectual communication. Organized by Professor Nayereh Tohidi (California State University, Northridge), and assisted by Peyman Malaz, a UCLA graduate student in Islamic Studies and Political Science, the scholarly presentations have generated wide interest among local Persian-speaking communities, as well as students and faculty at UCLA and other colleges and universities throughout Southern California. In addition to the hundreds of people who attend the lectures at UCLA, a much larger audience has been exposed to the series through podcasts posted on this website; local and international media such as BBC Persian; IRTV (Iranian Television); and Radio Iran (KIRN 670 AM). To learn more about the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran, please visit http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/bilingual-lecture-series/.
UCLA LIBRARY'S MIDDLE EAST STUDIES RESEARCH GUIDE This guide serves as a portal for resources for Middle Eastern, Armenian and Central Asian Studies. It contains links to a wide variety of e-resources, including reference sources like online encyclopedias and bibliographies; databases and indexes; e-book and journal collections; and news, cultural and governmental sites. Please note that while some electronic resources are freely available, others are subscription services provided by the UCLA Library, so remote access may be necessary when accessing from off-campus. The Middle East Studies Research Guide was created and is maintained by David Hirsch, Librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic, and South Asian Studies, and is available at http://guides.library.ucla.edu/mideast.
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Azeb Tedesse Phone: 310-825-3686 Fax: 310-206-2250 africa@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/ africa
The African Studies Center fosters a greater understanding of Africa through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The center is a local, regional and national resource, providing information to K-12 teachers and students and government, community and business constituencies. It regularly hosts summer workshops for high school teachers and designs programs such as Teach Africa™ and Fulbright Group Projects Abroad, bringing teachers to Uganda and Morocco for educational training and exchange. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/africa.
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P R O J E C T S GLOBALLINK-AFRICA This is a multimedia online curriculum resource for critical thinking about globalization and its relationship with Africa, Africans, and United States-Africa policy. It provides high school students with a view of Africa and the world that is not accessible through conventional curricula.
THE CONFLICT, CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND DEMOCRACY PROJECT The project addresses issues of the transnationalization of ethnic conflict in present-day Africa. It is concerned with peace and security issues, including human security, along with democracy and civil society.
THE HIV/AIDS INITIATIVE The HIV/AIDS Institute conducts research to contribute to the ongoing investigation of solutions to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The initiative is focused on HIV/AIDS and its relationship to health, economics, security, human rights, child rights, politics, and gender.
THE URBAN GOVERNANCE, WATER AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROJECT The project directly addresses poverty as a manifestation of globalization. The condition of the urban poor, with respect to access to basic water and sanitation services in Africa’s recent rapid urbanization, provides a key indicator of the global division of wealth and power.
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UCLA ASIA INSTITUTE UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 11288 Bunche Hall Box 951487 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Asia Institute fosters a greater understanding of Asia through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The institute sponsors public lectures, performances, film screenings, and exhibits. It brings scholars, artists, policy experts, and public figures to share insights with the public at-large and to engage and educate targeted audiences in business, media, government, and the arts. The Institute offers K12 teacher training workshops on international topics independently and in collaboration with other Centers. Workshops inform educators about new ideas and new ways of connecting Asia to the U.S. and the Pacific Rim, making the resources of the campus available to them to develop new teaching and curriculum materials. Web-based resources available to the public include podcasts, research reports, and more. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/asia.
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Throughout the year, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations sponsors conferences, lecture series, and other events on topics such as human rights, the geopolitical effects of climate change, national security, US policy in the Middle East, and the global economy. Events have featured such eminent figures as United Nations Secretaries-General Ban Ki-Moon and Kofi Annan, former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Senator George Mitchell, Chairman of the
Phone: 310-206-6365 Fax: 310-206-3555 burkle@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/ burkle
Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Nobel Prize winners Wangari Maathai, Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence, award-winning economist Jeffrey Sachs, journalists Anderson Cooper, David Remnick and Christopher Hitchens, and many others. The Burkle Center publishes audio podcasts and videocasts of its events on the center website and through iTunes U and YouTube. Our social networks on Facebook and Twitter encourage the community to stay involved. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.burkle.ucla.edu.
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The UCLA Center for Argentina, Chile and the Southern Cone fosters a greater understanding of the Southern Cone region of Latin America through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The center sponsors public lectures, performances, film screenings, and exhibits, and brings scholars, artists, policy experts and public figures to share insights with the public at large and with targeted audiences in business, media, government and the arts. The center offers K-12 teacher training workshops on international topics, travel study opportunities for teachers, and curriculum resources. Web-based resources include podcasts, research reports, language tutorials, and more. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/lai/argentina.
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UCLA CENTER FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE Latin American Institute 10343 Bunche Hall, Box 951447 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies fosters a greater understanding of Brazil through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The center sponsors public lectures, performances, film screenings, and exhibits, and brings scholars, artists, policy experts and public figures to share insights with the public at large and with targeted audiences in business, media, government and the arts. The center offers K-12 teacher training workshops on international topics, travel study opportunities for teachers, and curriculum resources. Web-based resources include podcasts, research reports, language tutorials, and more. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/lai/brazil.
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UCLA CENTER FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 11385 Bunche Hall Box 951487 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies fosters a greater understanding of Buddhism through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The center reaches out through an annual colloquium series, symposia, workshops and conferences to educate the broader community about Buddhist religion and culture in all of their diversity. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist.
UCLA CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 11381 Bunche Hall Box 951487 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies fosters a greater understanding of China and Taiwan through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The center sponsors a wide range of events and brings scholars, artists, policy experts, and public figures to share insights with the public at-large and with targeted audiences in business, media, government, and the arts. Some events examine ties between China, Taiwan, and Los Angeles and highlight the work of faculty, students, and leaders in the community. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/china.
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P R O J E C T S CALENDAR AND PODCASTS For information on lectures, symposia, colloquia and workshops sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, or to view videos of events or listen to podcasts of selected programs, please visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/china.
MANDARIN AND CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS (LMP) Mandarin and Chinese are among the more than 100 less-commonly taught languages (LCTLs) included in an online bibliographic database of teaching and learning materials provided by the UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP). For more information, please see the directory listing for Center for World Languages or visit the Language Material Project’s website at www.lmp.ucla.edu.
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The UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies fosters a greater understanding of Europe and Eurasia through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus, and through its electronic and print publications. The center organizes public lectures, book talks, conferences, film screenings and discussions, concerts, and other cultural events. The varied program reaches broad cross-sections of the Los Angeles general public and serves a wide range of constituencies, from the academic to the business, media, government, and consular communities. We frequently partner with local institutions, and regularly co-sponsor annual events such as the UCLA Human Rights Films series and the South-East-European Film Festival and Business Conference. An important part of our community outreach efforts is dedicated to sharing new scholarship on Europe and Eurasia with K-12 educators. Working primarily with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), we organize seminars, workshops, and other teacher training activities on European and Eurasian topics. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/euro.
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Akhil Gupta CONTACT Elizabeth Leicester Phone: 310-206-2654 Fax: 310-206-3555 cisa@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/ southasia
UCLA CENTER FOR INDIA & SOUTH ASIA UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 11387 Bunche Hall Box 951487 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Center for India and South Asia fosters a greater understanding of South Asia through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The Center sponsors a wide range of events and brings scholars, artists, policy experts and public figures to share insights with the public at large and with targeted audiences in business, media, government and the arts. Some events examine ties between South Asia and Los Angeles and highlight the work of faculty, students and leaders in the community. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/southasia.
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UCLA CENTER FOR KOREAN STUDIES UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 11371 Bunche Hall Box 951487 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Center for Korean Studies fosters a greater understanding of Korea through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The center sponsors a wide range of events and brings scholars, artists, policy experts and public figures to share insights with the public at large and with targeted audiences in culture, business, media, government and the arts. Some events examine ties between Korea and Los Angeles and highlight the work of faculty, students and leaders in the community. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/korea.
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UCLA CENTER FOR MEXICAN STUDIES UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE Latin American Institute 10343 Bunche Hall, Box 951447 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Center for Mexican Studies fosters a greater understanding of Mexico through a diverse array of free public programs, both on and off campus. The center sponsors a wide range of events and brings scholars, artists, policy experts and public figures to share insights with the public at large and with targeted audiences in business, media, government and the arts. Some events examine ties between Mexico and Los Angeles and highlight the work of faculty, students and leaders in the community. Outreach to schools is an integral part of the mission. Workshops are offered in areas such as history, culture, and the arts, and faculty members share their knowledge of Asia with K-12 teachers and assist them in preparing new materials for the classroom. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/lai/mexico.
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The Center for Middle East Development (CMED) works to enhance dialogue and maintain and expand relationships among disparate groups, as well as to inform policymakers about regional trends and innovative policy solutions in the region. In addition to public conferences and special task forces, CMED explores key issues for the Middle East, including Arab-Israeli developments, gulf security, regional business and economics, technological cooperation, democratic culture, youth, gender, and media.
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Stateside, CMED seeks to engage UCLA students and faculty in an ongoing dialogue on Middle East development issues. CMED maintains an educational website, sponsors a peer-reviewed book series through Routledge, and supports an interdisciplinary journal. CMED also hosts seminars, classes, and lectures at UCLA that highlight key issues in the Middle East. The Center includes undergraduate and graduate students in all activities.
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The UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies promotes innovative, interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship that have established UCLA as a world leader in the study of this dynamic region. It sponsors research, student scholarships and fellowships, language instruction, public lectures and conferences, and outreach to schools and communities.
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We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/cseas.
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UCLA CENTER FOR WORLD LANGUAGES AND NATIONAL HERITAGE LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 1333 Rolfe Hall Box 951411 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Center for World Languages and National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) provide resources and professional development for effective language teaching. The centers share knowledge with K-12 teachers and assists them in preparing new materials for the classroom through workshops, conferences, and publications. NHLRC hosts an online workshop for teachers with heritage students in their classrooms. The centers also offer summer high school language classes. The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) is an online bibliographic database of annotated references to teaching and learning materials for 150 less-commonly taught languages. LMP features K-12 lesson plans that can be adapted to any language. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/languages and www.nhlrc.ucla.edu.
P R O J E C T S LA LANGUAGE WORLD LA Language World is an online magazine that looks at Los Angeles' linguistic diversity. For more information, visit www.lalamag.ucla.edu.
LANGUAGE INTENSIVES IN LA Language Intensives in LA is a program of summer language classes integrating classroom work and visits to local ethnic and language communities. For more information, visit www.international.ucla.edu/languages/intensives.
NATIONAL HERITAGE LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER National Heritage Language Resource Center is dedicated to research and development to support heritage language pedagogy. For more information, visit www.nhlrc.ucla.edu.
RUSSIAN HIGH SCHOOL PROFICIENCY EXAM FOR LOS ANGELES-AREA STUDENTS The Russian High School Proficiency Exam for Los Angeles-Area Students was developed to help students earning high school credit. For more information, visit http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/russian/sampletest.htm or contact sbauckus@international.ucla.edu.
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SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL HERITAGE SPEAKERS CLASSES Summer High School Heritage Speakers Classes was developed to help students earn high school credit including: • Hindi for Hindi Speakers; • Persian for Persian Speakers; and, • Russian for Russian Speakers. For more information, visit www.hslanguages.ucla.edu or contact cwl@international.ucla.edu.
THE LANGUAGE MATERIALS PROJECT The Language Materials Project is an online bibliographic database of teaching and learning materials for 150 less-commonly taught languages. For more information, visit www.lmp.ucla.edu.
UCLA RUSSIAN FLAGSHIP UCLA Russian Flagship is a language program that teaches to high proficiencies to prepare students to be global professionals. It is funded by The Language Flagship and is open to UCLA Russian students. For more information, visit http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/flagships/russian/.
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The UCLA International Institute brings the world to our community. Community outreach—disseminating knowledge and promoting dialogue about the broader world—is integral to the institute’s mission. The UCLA International Institute brings together scholars, dignitaries, policymakers, artists, activists, faculty and students for public events to explore and collaborate on issues of local and international relevance. The institute's out-
Phone: 310-825-4811 Fax: 310-206-3555 info-intl@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu
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P R O J E C T S CALENDAR OF EVENTS Public lectures, symposia, colloquia, and workshops about world affairs at UCLA. For more information, visit www.international.ucla.edu.
K-12 OUTREACH AND TEACHER TRAINING The International Institute is the home base of the University’s oldest continuing precollegiate outreach program. Launched in the mid-1970s with funds from the U.S. Department of Education, the K-12 Outreach and Teacher Training enterprise currently consists of 10 professional development and training programs annually, and a host of school site, resource development, overseas studies, and collaborative projects promoted by the International Institute and its National Resources Centers on Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Our mission is to expand and enrich teachers’ knowledge base and enable them and their students to gain critical academic perspectives and access to educational resources that can enhance instruction, performance, and the pursuit of international careers, including higher education. These objectives relate directly to a priority of meeting the national interest and needs for experts on these vital global regions, and the institute's goals of fostering global citizenship and ties to the UCLA in LA initiative.
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UCLA LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTE UCLA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 10343 Bunche Hall Box 951447 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Teacher training has long been a mainstay of the institute’s community outreach efforts, allowing our faculty members to share their knowledge with as wide an audience as possible. Working with the Los Angeles Unified and other school districts, we organize an intensive training workshop each summer on a Latin American topic and seminars during the academic year. The institute’s lectures and conferences reach a wide range of constituencies, including the business community, media representatives and public officials. We frequently sponsor public talks, screenings and panel discussions and collaborate with UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History, which has a gallery dedicated to the Americas and operates an extensive outreach program to K-12 schools. We invite anyone interested to visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/lai.
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P R O J E C T S BRAZILIAN FILM SERIES Since 2007, in conjunction with the Consulate General of Brazil in Los Angeles, the UCLA Latin American Institute proudly sponsors the UCLA Brazilian Film Series. The film series showcases recent Brazilian feature films and documentaries on the first Wednesday of every month throughout the academic year. The screenings are free and open to the public.
LATIN AMERICA CINEMA PROJECT The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and UCLA have partnered to produce a compilation DVD collection featuring some of the most emblematic films produced in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico to be made available to U.S. universities in 2008. This nonprofit educational project is a partnership between the Latin American Regional Office of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Latin American Institute at UCLA. Steve Solot, senior vice president for Latin American Operations of the MPA, is the Latin American coordinator, and Randal Johnson, director of the Latin American Institute of UCLA, is coordinator of the project in the U.S.
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The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies promotes the interdisciplinary study of the modern state of Israel. It supports teaching, research, and public programs to foster a broad understanding of Israel’s history, culture and society, and its place in the region and the world. The Center invites leading Israeli scholars and post-doctoral fellows to teach courses and deliver public lectures, and promotes collaboration and exchange between UCLA and Israeli academic institutions.
Miriam Zacuto Phone: 310-825-9646 Fax: 310-206-3555 israel@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/ israel
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The UCLA School of Law seeks to produce graduates who will be leaders capable of working across social lines and able to further meaningful democratic values in an increasingly complex and multicultural world. To that end, the Academic Outreach Resource Center is committed to aggresively and imaginatively engaging in a wide varitey of outreach initiatives designed to encourage students from diverse backgrounds to apply and attend law school at UCLA. Additionally, the center has taken the initiative to engage students throughout the educational "pipeline" with the learning tools that will help them take maximum advantage of the opportunities available.
Leo Trujillo Cox Phone: 310-794-4157 Fax: 310-794-8840 trujillo@law.ucla.edu http://www.law.ucla.edu/currentstudents/get-involved/Pages/law-fellows-outreach-program.aspx
By equipping talented and motviated students with an academically based program, sound counseling, test preparation, and mentorship, we are confident that the School of Law will better prepare participants to successfully gain admission to, and succeed in law school. Recognizing that highly competitive students have a variety of options when making admissions decisions, we are committed to making the UCLA School of Law the most attractive first choice by demonstrating to them that we want and actively seek their presence at the school.
P R O J E C T S LAW FELLOWS PROGRAM To further its primary goal, the School of Law's Academic Outreach Resource Center launched the Law Fellows Program in 1997. This program is designed to encourage and prepare high potential undergraduate and graduate students for a career in law, increase the diversity of the law school pool and demystify the law school experience. The program format is made up of several components and includes a series of Saturday Academies held at the law school. These academies offer professional-level instruction by law faculty in which Law Fellows are exposed to cases and a variety of other materials used in law school. In addition to the academic enrichment component, each fellow is assigned a School of Law student mentor with whom they interact throughout the year. Informative seminars and panel discussions, designed to demystify the law school experience, are led by staff, alumni, and other members of the legal community. Each fellow who successfully completes the program receives a scholarship for an LSAT preparation course. Finally, participants complete a Juris Doctorate Action Plan and regularly meet with the directors of the program, often over the course of several years until they matriculate to law school and beyond, receiving continuous academic support, mentoring, counseling and career guidance. The program currently serves approximately 90-110 new undergraduate and graduated students each year.
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The Asian Pacific Islander Law Student Association (APILSA) was formed in 1969 in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement and in response to the need for greater Asian and Pacific Islander representation in the legal profession. In the past 30 years, APILSA has grown to be the largest and one of the most active student-run organizations at the UCLA School of Law, consisting of Pan-Asian and multi-ethnic students, faculty, alumni, and community members. Because members of the APILSA have a vested interest in the Asian Pacific Islander community, this association also strives to provide law students with opportuniites to serve the community in Southern California. For the past 20 years, APILSA has held a series of evening legal clinics at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) in downtown Los Angeles. These clinics provide crucial training for students who seek to put their legal training into practice on behalf of the community. Legal clinic volunteers work with APALC attorneys on a variety of client matters, including housing, immigration, employment, discrimination, discrimination, and domestic violence.
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CRITICAL RACE STUDIES PROGRAM SCHOOL OF LAW 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095 The mission of the Critical Race Studies Program is to create new ideas, teach new scholars and transform racial justice advocacy. The only program of its kind in the United States, UCLA Law's Critical Race Studies (CRS) program is the premier institutional setting for the study of the intersection between race and the law. Anchored by the most renowned scholars whose research represents the cutting edge of Critical Race Theory in legal scholarship and related disciplines, the CRS program at the UCLA School of Law has no parallel in American legal education. The cornerstone of the CRS program is an academic course of study, the CRS Specialization, which attracts the top students committed to racial justice scholarship and legal practice. Established in 2000, the CRS specialization has quickly emerged as a training ground for a new generation of practitioners, scholars and advocates committed to racial justice theory and practice. CRS is a mutlifaceted program that augments the specialization's coursework with research colloquia, symposia, interdisciplinary collaborations and community partnerships in order to integrate theory and practice. The CRS program is founded on three pillars that are central to the mission of the UCLA School of Law: Research, Teaching, and Service.
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P R O J E C T S CRITICAL RACE STUDIES RE-ENTRY LEGAL CLINIC One of the goals of the Critical Race Studies (CRS) program is to address the intersection of various forms of subordination and to increase our understanding of the role of the law in this process. American social policy and legal reforms over the past 25 years have largely depended on incarceration as a public policy response to issues of crime and social dislocation. These policies have been accompanied by legalized discrimination that strips formerly incarcerated people of various rights even after they completed their sentences. This includes the right to vote, the right to public assistance, such as food stamps, and the right to work in specific vocations. CRS is currently partnered with A New Way of Life (www.anewwayoflife.org), a community based organization in Los Angeles working to address employment discrimination faced by formerly incarcerated people, with an eye toward deepening our students' understanding of employment discrimination and policy reform. The partnership involves both the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative and the Prisoner Re-Entry Clinic: (a) Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative: The purpose of the Prisoner Re-entry Initiative is to promote the civil and human rights of prisoners returning to South Los Angeles communities, and to reduce the discrimination and barriers to employment that former prisoners face. With the assistance of UCLA Law School students, former prisoners advocate for the removal of the question about prior felony conviction from applications for employment with the City and the County of Los Angeles. Students and former prisoners together research pertinent civil rights and employment laws, and work with human resources and personnel departments to develop and implement hiring procedures for persons with prior convictions. Students also research expungement policies, certificates of rehabilitation and civil rights of former prisoners. The project culminates with a Rights and Employment Fair to promote hiring and educate persons re-entering the community about their civil rights. Through the clinic, School of Law students volunteer to help people with criminal records overcome employment barriers by utilizing existing legal means to remove these barriers.
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El Centro Legal Clinics is the UCLA School of Law's student coordinated network of volunteer legal aid clinics. Through each of El Centro's clinics, students provide legal service on a volunteer basis to a variety of communities in the Greater Los Angeles area. Clinics focus on issues related to housing and homelessness, immigration, juvenile justice, landlord/tenant issues, domestic violence, employment issues, legal access for LAUSD students and their parents/guardians and veterans, youth deportation, LGBTQ empowerment, and workers’ rights. Each clinic has its own volunteers, leadership, practice areas, and client base.
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P R O J E C T S EL CENTRO LEGAL EDUCATION RIGHTS CLINIC The Education and Law Society sponsors the Education Rights Clinic to provide legal services to underserved Los Angeles Unified School District students and their parents/guardians. Student volunteers work with attorneys and social workers from Public Counsel Law Center at monthly legal intakes at their office in Koreatown to formulate immediate and more long-term advice for clients. At the legal intakes, the volunteers help with a variety of issues, including special education, school discipline, and Williams complaint counseling. Once experienced, volunteers have the opportunity to run their own intakes. We would like for volunteers to commit to 3 clinic shifts per semester. The clinics are on the first Tuesday of every month from 3-5PM and/or 58PM. Spanish speakers are encouraged to volunteer!
EL CENTRO LEGAL HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION CLINIC Homelessness Prevention Clinic (HPC) volunteers work with attorneys helping homeless or near-homeless clients of all ages. Volunteers assist with wide-ranging issues like outstanding warrants, government benefits, and probation/parole issues. HPC students gain practical legal experience, and exposure to the realities of poverty and homelessness. Volunteers examine often-overlooked aspects of the law. There are two Clinic options: VENICE BEACH OUTREACH: Volunteers join an attorney and interact with the homeless. Utilizing food as an icebreaker, volunteers and the attorney will provide advice to the homeless and direct them to resources. The Clinic is generally held Wednesday evenings. COVENANT HOUSE: Covenant House is a home in Hollywood for runaway and homeless teenagers. It’s held on Thursday evenings. Residents ask volunteers and attorneys for legal advice.
EL CENTRO LEGAL LABOR & ECONOMIC JUSTICE CLINIC The Labor & Economic Justice Clinic (LEJC) works in partnership with UNITE HERE Local 11, a Los Angelesbased hotel workers union that engages in innovative labor campaigns. Participants will have the opportunity to conduct worker interviews, factual investigations and legal research, and work with administrative agencies. Projects may also arise involving discrimination, immigration, and health and safety. Participants must attend the clinic training, where they will sign up for one week to be on call to help with ongoing legal tasks. 1Ls can volunteer to assist with interviews, research assignments, and/or legal observing. 2Ls can apply for a part-time externship (5-15 hour/week) and receive academic credit. Participants will be expected to participate twice.
EL CENTRO LEGAL LANDLORD- TENANT CLINIC The Landlord-Tenant Clinic advocates for low-income tenants facing possible eviction, habitability problems, rent increases and other issues. Clinic volunteers assist staff attorneys at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles in Santa Monica. Along with intake interviews, volunteers assist clients with paperwork, and collaborate with attorneys in counseling and resolving client problems through the best course of action. The clinic meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. in Santa Monica. Volunteers are asked to participate at least two- three times per semester. 120 2014
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EL CENTRO LEGAL LETS GO! LIBERATION LetsGo! Liberation is a pioneering effort to empower low-income transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people. Our volunteers collaborate once a month with Transgender and LGBT focused organizations. In our trainings, we will learn about the unique legal challenges facing the transgender community, including issues of immigration, criminal law, and domestic violence. We also help our community achieve full authenticity in their identity through legal name and gender changes. LetsGo! Liberation serves Los Angeles communities in line with the principles of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project of New York. Volunteers will be able to familiarize themselves with more organizations in the area, and provide direct client services by performing intakes, completing petitions, drafting declarations, and providing referrals as necessary. There will also be opportunities to practice Spanish.
EL CENTRO LEGAL MOBILE CLINIC The Mobile Clinic is a student-run, street-based effort to provide basic legal, medical and social support services for the indigent and homeless populations of West Hollywood and Hollywood. Students from the UCLA School of Law work alongside students from the UCLA Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and the Undergraduate College to provide clients with high quality legal services. Law student volunteers will provide direct client services through client intake and referrals, and by assisting attorneys with following cases and advocating on the client’s behalf. The Mobile Clinic provides services every Wednesday evening starting at 6:00 PM. Our carpool leaves from the Law School at 5:15 PM. We ask student volunteers to attend two sessions per semester. The clinic is located on the corner of Sycamore and Romaine in West Hollywood.
EL CENTRO LEGAL PUBLIC COUNSEL CARES CLINIC Connecting Angelinos to Resources and Essential Services (CARES) operates to meet the legal needs of the underserved residing in the greater Los Angeles area. Participating in CARES gives law students the opportunity to have a significant and immediate impact on the lives of homeless and severely impoverished Angelinos. Students will act as on-site advocates at one of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) offices, where impoverished, hungry and homeless individuals are most likely to need advice and legal aid. In addition to helping clients obtain and maintain their cash aid and food stamps from the DPSS, students will assist clients with referrals to private and community aid organizations that offer basic human needs assistance and legal aid. Volunteers will gain practice in the areas of client in-take, client advocacy, and dispute resolution and will be providing an invaluable service to their local community.
EL CENTRO LEGAL RE-ENTRY CLINIC Few employers, private or public, wish to hire people with criminal records, and it is difficult to obtain useful trade licenses or start a business. The Re-Entry Legal Clinic utilizes existing legal means to remove these employment barriers, focusing on cleaning up a client’s criminal record, ensuring that employers know and follow existing anti-discrimination laws, and discouraging employers from making unreasonable decisions based on a potential employee’s criminal record. Nationwide, very few agencies and attorneys currently take this approach. Our clinic, a partnership between the Critical Race Studies program at UCLA and the nonprofit, A New Way of Life, is a pioneer in this vastly underutilized area of the law. Clinic volunteers, trained by professors and practitioners, learn how to analyze court dockets, conduct client interviews, prepare expungement petitions and declarations, and assist in enforcing anti-discrimination laws impacting previously incarcerated persons. Students may also take part in community organizing efforts. 121 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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EL CENTRO LEGAL SKID ROW CLINIC The Skid Row Clinic is a collaborative effort between the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN), Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), and El Centro Legal. Volunteers work with LAFLA and Pro Bono attorneys to assist homeless and low-income residents of Skid Row, a neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, with a broad array of legal issues. Client concerns frequently include wrongful evictions, habitability complaints, and housing discrimination. Skid Row Clinic volunteers conduct client interviews, complete LAFLA intake paperwork, assess legal options with LAFLA and Pro Bono attorneys, and work with clients to complete court documents. Volunteers may also have the opportunity to take on extended research projects. The Clinic meets downtown, at LACAN, on Wednesdays from 6-8 p.m.
EL CENTRO LEGAL TEEN COURT Teen Court is an early intervention program that provides an opportunity for selected youth charged with an offense to be questioned, judged, and sentenced by a jury of their peers. Teen Court is based on the philosophy that both the youth charged with the offense and the students who comprise the jury benefit from participation. During the trial, jurors will question the young person to elicit enough information to determine a verdict and a proposed restorative justice sentence. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge presides over the hearing. Law student volunteers will have the opportunity to facilitate jury deliberations. Teen Court meets once a month at Venice High School on Wednesdays from 3:15-5:00 p.m. Volunteers attend 1-2 Teen Court sessions/semester. Carpools will leave from and return to the law school.
EL CENTRO LEGAL WORKERS' RIGHTS PROJECT The Workers’ Rights Project provides students an opportunity to help vindicate the rights of LA’s low-wage immigrant workforce, by helping workers re-claim wages that they are owed for minimum wage, overtime, and meal and rest break violations. Partnering with Bet Tzedek Legal Services, volunteers conduct in-depth intake interviews and convey legal information at the weekly walk-in clinic, working one-on-one with litigants hoping to file claims against their employers. This collaboration with Bet Tzedek attorneys exposes volunteers to wage and hour law and provides invaluable experience working with litigants and spotting legal issues in a real-world context. The clinic takes place every Wednesday from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Central LA. Students are encouraged to participate at least 4 times per semester. Some Spanish language skills are preferred but not required.
EL CENTRO LEGAL YOUTH DEPORTATION DEFENSE CLINIC Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project provides free legal services to Southern Californians facing deportation. These services include Know Your Rights presentations to families of children facing deportation. Many of these children cannot afford representation, so empowering families with knowledge of immigration law can mean the difference between deportation and a path to citizenship. Alongside Esperanza attorneys, students will conduct legal screenings for minors, helping the family identify potential defenses to deportation. Students will develop client interviewing skills and knowledge of immigration law, while helping empower families. Clinics take place at Esperanza’s office downtown on Wednesdays from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Students will be trained prior to their first commitment. Students are encouraged to attend at least twice a semester. Spanishspeaking ability useful but not required. El Centro Veterans Clinic 122 2014
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EL CENTRO VETERANS CLINIC Students join attorneys from Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, LLP at legal intake sessions at the Veterans Administration campus next to UCLA. Students assist veterans residing at the facility with issues ranging from debt to family law, and focus on moving veterans through Homeless Court to wipe petty citations. Students may appear before a judge with Homeless Court-eligible individuals approximately once each year. Sessions are for several evening hours on the second Tuesday of each month. Fall training is provided. Experienced volunteers (after one year of Manatt sessions) may apply to work with Inner City Law Center attorneys focused on veterans. Students review documents to lessen the bottleneck of veterans trying to access benefits. Biweekly sessions at the law school will be scheduled around our attorney supervisor and students.
IMMIGRATION CLINIC: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT CLINIC & U- VISA PROJECT The clinic helps undocumented immigrants who have left abusive relationships or been victims of serious crimes submit VAWA or U-Visa applications. These applications allow them to stay in the country, receive a work permit, and obtain permanent residence. Eligible applicants are also placed on the path to US citizenship. Volunteers assist women who are victims of domestic violence, as well as men and children who have suffered sexual abuse, felonious assaults, and attempted murders. In helping your client, you will positively impact the lives of their families. There is a primary need for Spanish speaking volunteers, but English translations or English speaking clients can be arranged for volunteers who don’t speak Spanish. The clinic is a joint effort of the Immigration Law Society and El Centro. The time commitment is 10 to 15 hours per term. This will consist of two- four meetings at CARECEN (Central American Resource Center) in Koreatown, plus some work done on your own.
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The School of Law's Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic works with many nonprofit and government agency partners on real-world challenges involving air quality, climate change, environmental justice, water quality, public access to recreational resources, and other important issues. The clinic has been very successful at training top-quality environmental lawyers while helping our partners to protect the environment.
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P R O J E C T S FRANK G. WELLS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC The Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic assists nonprofit organizations and government officials with improving the quality of our environment, and engages students in hands-on experiences in environmental law. Working with local and national organizations such as the Santa Monica Baykeeper, the National Resources Defense Council, and California Communities Against Toxics, as well as with local officials, the clinic has been very successful at training environmental lawyers while helping local and national organizations to protect the environment. Urban runoff, pollution in low-income communities, the loss of endangered species habitat, and global warming have been among the many issues the clinic has addressed recently.
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La Raza Law Student Association CONTACT La Raza Law Student Association Phone: 310-206-5158 Fax: 310-206-7763 http://www.law.ucla.edu/laraza/
STUDENT OF COLOR OUTREACH WORKSHOP SCHOOL OF LAW 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095 Each year, during the fall, the various ethnic law-student organizations coordinate the Student of Color Outreach Workshop for prospective law students. This workshop targets potential law students from underrepresented minorities and encourages them to apply to the UCLA School of Law as well as other top-tier law schools. Significant outreach efforts are conducted, resulting in attendance from students from throughout California. Principal components of the workshop include panels on demystifying the LSAT, personal statement assistance, and the Student of Color Guide to the Law School Admissions Process. Each of the last few years, the Workshop has served more than 200 prospective law students.
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UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW CLINICAL PROGRAM SCHOOL OF LAW 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095 The School of Law offers a wide range of clinical programs in which law students under the supervision of law faculty members and working with clients provided by legal service organizations in the community. Liveclient clinics offered by the School of Law include: Capital Punishment Clinic, Community Economic Development, Criminal Defense Clinic, Environmental Law Clinic, Fact Investigation in Complex Matters, Immigration Law Clinic, Interviewing and Counseling Clinic, Mediation, 9th Circuit Appellate Clinic, Public Policy Advocacy, Street Law, Trial Advocacy, Tribal Legal Development, and the Law Student Extern Program. These clinics provide meaningful legal assistance to members of underrepresented groups, including children, low-wage workers, immigrants, and Native-American tribes.
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While it is difficult to estimate how many clients may be served by these programs, the impact on the community is significant. Each clinic works with a different client and community base. Some of the bigger projects, such as those undertaken by the Public Policy Advocacy Clinic and the Community Economic Development Clinic, impact large segments of the Los Angeles community, particularly the poor and underrepresented groups. Students also teach law in a variety of high school classrooms in the Los Angeles area in our Street Law Clinic. For more information about these clinics, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1104.
P R O J E C T S 9TH CIRCUIT APPELLATE CLINIC The 9th Circuit Appellate Clinic is a joint undertaking between UCLA and the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Three senior O’Melveny appellate attorneys teach the clinic. Working in two-person teams with junior O’Melveny associates, students represent litigants on a pro bono basis in appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=2776.
ASYLUM CLINIC The Asylum Clinic is a joint venture between the law school and Public Counsel's Immigrants Rights Project (IRP). Students spend four hours each week in the classroom and an additional eight hours per week on casework at IRP offices. The classroom portion of the course includes both substantive immigration law topics that are related to the student's clinical work, and skills training such as interviewing, research and writing declarations, fact development, and some trial advocacy. Students engage in tasks such as client intake; preparation of asylum petitions; applications for relief under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the Victim of Trafficking and Violent Crime Prevention Act (VTVPA); and possibly appearances before the asylum office and the immigration court. The precise work conducted in any semester will depend on the clients who need representation, and the posture of their cases. The clinic is limited to 12 students on an application basis. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/centers-programs/clinical-program/in-houseclinics/Pages/immigration-clinic.aspx.
CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION CLINIC The Civil Rights Litigation Clinic allows teams of students to work on civil rights cases in cooperation with public interest organizations and private attorneys. Students spend significant time out of class working on their assigned cases, with in-class time spent honing skills involved in litigation.
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COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CLINIC The Community Economic Development Clinic offers transactional legal assistance to nonprofit and for-profit organizations engaged in efforts to provide housing, jobs, and social services to Los Angeles' low-income communities. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1109.
CRIMINAL DEFENSE CLINIC This clinic provides students with clinical training in a criminal defense setting. Students work in teams on live client cases in cooperation with local defender organizations mainly under the supervision of the instructor. The course covers both substantive and technical aspects of criminal defense. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/Criminal-Defense-Clinic.aspx.
FACT INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY IN COMPLEX MATTERS Under UCLA faculty direction, students conduct investigations of facts relevant to litigation, transactional matters, and public policy advocacy, particularly in complex settings. Examples include the investigation of complex consumer fraud schemes, the operation of large bureaucracies and organizations, or the performance of large public sector systems. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/law-723.aspx.
FIRST AMENDMENT AMICUS CLINIC Students in this clinic represent nonprofit organizations filing amicus curiae briefs in state and federal trial courts, intermediate appellate courts, and courts of last resort regarding free speech and religious freedom issues involving the First Amendment, state constitutional analog, and related statutes (such as anti-SLAPP statutes, 47 U.S.C. ยง 230, Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, and more).
FRANK G. WELLS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC Under the supervision of faculty who are experienced environmental lawyers, students work on behalf of environmental and community groups on litigation and regulatory matters. By working as co-counsel with organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Santa Monica BayKeeper, the clinic works on the most important environmental issues facing Southern California.
LAW STUDENT EXTERN PROGRAM UCLA School of Law has an extensive, well-established, and diversified student Externship Program through which students can work either as an extern law clerk to a federal judge or at a government agency, public interest law firm, or nonprofit organization. Unlike most law school programs, all externships are full-time, semester-long programs. Judicial Extern Program: Students in the Judicial Extern Program work as full-time externs in the chambers of federal trial and appellate judges and California Court of Appeal justices. This provides a remarkable opportunity for students to observe and participate in the judicial process while still in law school. Agency Extern Program: Alternatively, students may work in public interest settings such as the ACLU, the Natural Resources Defense Council, or for governmental agencies in Washington, D.C., such as the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, or the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. 126 2014
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For further information about the externship program and a list of the participating programs, please go to http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1498.
MEDIATION CLINIC Students participate as co-mediators of Superior Court cases at Los Angeles area courthouses. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1741.
PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY CLINIC Students learn to evaluate, develop, and implement strategies for dealing with important public policy issues such as slum housing conditions and deplorable conditions in California public schools. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/law-706.aspx.
REAL ESTATE LAW CLINIC Students in this clinic represent one or two non-profit organizations at various stages in the process of developing affordable housing for low-income residents of Los Angeles.
STREET LAW CLINIC Students teach law in a variety of high school classrooms throughout the Los Angeles area. Street Law focuses on how law students can communicate legal concepts to non-lawyers and on teaching such necessary legal skills as establishing trust and confidence, and building rapport. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1743.
SUPREME COURT CLINIC In this clinic, students and faculty work together on real cases before the United States Supreme Court by filing petitions for certiorari and amicus briefs on behalf of public interest organizations, indigent prisoners and academics.
TRIAL ADVOCACY CLINIC Students represent clients at hearings such as unemployment compensation appeals hearings, wage claim hearings, political asylum cases, employment discrimination cases, and small claims appeal hearings. For more information, please visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1745. TRIBAL LEGAL DEVELOPMENT CLINIC Clinic faculty and students work on various approved legal development projects at the request of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian governments and organizations. Typical projects include constitution drafting and reform, drafting and amendment of statutes, creation of western-style, traditional, and hybrid dispute resolution processes, and law clerk services to such forums.
YOUTH AND JUSTICE CLINIC The Youth and Justice Clinic examines the role of the lawyer in the juvenile justice process. Students work in teams representing detained youth on non-criminal, civil legal issues in cooperation with attorneys and nonprofit organizations. 127 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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FOWLER MUSEUM AT UCLA
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The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures, with an emphasis on past and present works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas.The Fowler’s education program annually serves approximately 10,000 K-12 students from the greater Los Angeles area. In addition, the Fowler is renowned for its exemplary and diverse professional development offerings and resources for teachers, including interdisciplinary, humanities-based workshops designed to enrich, refresh and recharge K-12 educators, and week-long summer insti-
Stacey Ravel Abarbanel Phone: 310-825-4288 Fax: 310-206-7007 staceyra@arts.ucla.edu http://www.fowler.ucla.edu
tutes that focus on particular topics related to exhibitions and the museum's collections, and present opportunities to join with other teachers in in-depth explorations and study of the arts and humanities. More than 63% of the Fowler’s visitors come from off-campus and are unaffiliated with UCLA. Almost 19% of visitors are UCLA students. Awaiting visitors are exciting exhibitions and events that foster a deep appreciation and understanding of the many peoples, cultures, and religions of the world, filling an important niche in Los Angeles, one of the most diverse cities in the world. The Fowler’s state-of-the-art facility includes approximately 20,000 square feet of exhibition space. Five galleries showcase a wide range of arts—from ancient traditions to contemporary practices—via innovative temporary exhibitions and a dynamic installation of selections from the museum’s renowned permanent collection of more than 150,000 objects. Complementing the Fowler’s outstanding exhibitions are lectures, symposia, performances, art workshops, and gallery talks for general audiences, scholars, educators, and visitors of all ages as well as a hands-on summer art camp for children. Family festivals celebrate the themes of our major exhibitions through music, dance, and art-making activities. K–12 educators benefit from the museum’s extensive teacher-training programs and published arts and humanities curricula, which enable them to follow up on students’ field trips to the Fowler with interactive lessons in the classroom.
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P R O J E C T S SCHOOL VISITS TO THE MUSEUM Thousands of K–12 students visit the Fowler each year for the highly interactive, student-centered learning that is the touchstone of the museum’s educational philosophy. In-gallery lessons taught by trained gallery teachers utilize dynamic questioning strategies, small-group interactions, peer teaching, and object-centered approaches. Most students complete their Fowler visit with a session in our art studio, where they make an object inspired by what they saw and learned about in the gallery. Schools are invited to contact the Fowler Museum to arrange student tours.
WORKSHOP FOR EDUCATORS— TEACHER SERVICES The museum offers in-service workshops for teachers of all grade levels in conjunction with its exhibition projects. Workshops are designed to enhance the students’ and teachers’ experience with the exhibitions and to serve as long-term educational resources. Workshops may include presentations by scholars and educators, gallery walk-throughs, and cooperative-learning experiences.
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Sarah Stifler CONTACT Sarah Stifler Phone: 310-443-7056 Fax: 310-443-7099 sstifler@hammer.ucla.edu http://hammer.ucla.edu/
HAMMER MUSEUM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & ARCHITECTURE 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Hammer explores the capacity of art and artists to impact and illuminate our lives. Through its collections, exhibitions, and programs, the Hammer examines the depth and diversity of artistic expression through the centuries, with a special emphasis on the art of our time. The museum advances UCLA’s mission by contributing to the intellectual life of the university and the world beyond. The Hammer maintains a vibrant annual slate of rotating historical and contemporary exhibitions and artist projects, with an emphasis on emerging and under-recognized local and international artists. In addition, there is a special focus on artists from the vibrant local community of Los Angeles. Specific galleries are designated for the museum’s permanent collections, which are also featured regularly in special temporary exhibitions. Researchers, students, and members of the public access the collections through the Grunwald Center Study Room. A roster of more than 250 free public programs a year includes literary readings, lectures, symposia, conversations between cultural figures, political forums, musical performances, and film screenings as well as curator- and artist-led lunchtime art talks. In its role as a cultural center, the Hammer endeavors to be a vibrant intellectual forum for the exploration of art and ideas. The Hammer’s sophisticated website delivers virtual, global access to its exhibitions and programs, and an ever-increasing number and variety of frequently downloaded audio and video podcasts provide the museum with an international footprint.
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The UCLA Library, a campus network of libraries serving programs of study and research in many fields, is ranked among the top 10 research libraries in the United States. Its resources are housed in the Arts Library, the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, the College Library, the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, the Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library, the Music Li-
Phone: 310-825-0746 Fax: 310-206-4109 dsetzer@library.ucla.edu http://www.library.ucla.edu
brary, the Charles E. Young Research Library, and the Science and Engineering Library. The primary mission of the UCLA Library is to serve UCLA students, faculty, and staff. It also is a resource for other users—locally and throughout the nation—who require unique materials and resources beyond the scope of local and/or public library collections. The UCLA Library receives more than 78,000 serial titles regularly, and its total collections number more than nine million volumes. The individual libraries hold important collections of archives, audiovisual materials, corporate reports, government publications, manuscripts, maps, oral history transcripts, photographs, and other scholarly resources. Special collections in the humanities and social sciences, performing arts, and sciences also contain rare and unique materials documenting many facets of the world’s intellectual and cultural development.
P R O J E C T S COLLEGE LIBRARY SUPPORT FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS The College Library, UCLA’s undergraduate library, is committed to participating in campus and UC outreach efforts to attract students to UCLA. Free College Library cards are available to advanced-placement high school students and to community college students participating in UCLA’s Transfer Alliance Program. The cards allow students to borrow up to five books at a time from the College Library. The library also offers literacy-enrichment services designed to help high school and community college transfer students find and use library resources and refine their research skills. These include online, interactive tutorials; online help guides suggesting useful research tools and strategies; and online reference assistance that is available 24/7.
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REGIONAL MEDICAL LIBRARY The Regional Medical Library in the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library is the Pacific Southwest regional office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), funded by the National Library of Medicine. The mission of the NN/LM is to advance the progress of medicine, improve public health by providing equal access to biomedical information to all health professionals, and improve the public’s access to health information. Library staff coordinate a number of information services, working with 13 resource libraries and some 700 primary-access libraries in the region. Among the services provided are demonstrations and training on how to search National Library of Medicine databases and use the Internet to retrieve biomedical information; referrals to libraries that can provide articles, books, or audiovisual materials; information on new technologies; and exhibits and training sessions at health professionals meetings.
UCLA LIBRARY ASSOCIATES Since 1962, supporters of the UCLA Library have been instrumental in helping to strengthen and enrich the library’s cultural and intellectual resources and to extend them to the Los Angeles community. The UCLA Library Associates are a special group of faculty, alumni, and friends who recognize that at the heart of a great university is its library. Through their annual support, these donors are investing in the future of the library, the campus and—through the researchers, scholars, and leaders the university produces—the world. In appreciation, the library extends to UCLA Library Associates courtesies such as borrowing privileges and invitations to workshops, exhibit openings, and private viewings of the library’s world-renowned collections.
UCLA LIBRARY CENTER FOR ORAL HISTORY RESEARCH Interviews conducted by the UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research document the history of Southern California through such topics as politics and government, fine arts, African American and other ethnic communities, social movements and the University of California (UC). Transcripts of interviews are available in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at UCLA and the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley; selected transcripts and audio of interviews are also available on the website. In addition, the center offers training in oral history to interested individuals and organizations.
UCLA LIBRARY EXHIBITS The UCLA Library offers an ever-changing roster of exhibits that highlight programs and activities across campus and link the university to the community at large. Exhibits focus on library collections as they relate to UCLA’s academic programs; important conferences and symposia; special teaching objectives; and major events, particularly in the broader Southern California community. The exhibits are designed to appeal to the interests of the UCLA research community—including faculty, graduate students, and professional staff—as well as to undergraduates, friends, donors, affiliates, and the general public. Information on current exhibits can be found at www.library.ucla.edu/news/2152.cfm.
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The Clark Library is one of the great research libraries in Los Angeles, indeed in the country. Each year it presents many lectures, readings, chamber music concerts and academic programs that among them attract over 2,000 members of the community and the scholarly world. Tours and other visits account for many more visitors, who come to visit this historically and architecturally significant building and its rich collections. The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library houses a rare books and manuscripts collection, with a par-
Gerald Cloud Phone: 323-731-8529 Fax: 323-731-8617 gwcloud@ucla.edu http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib
ticular focus on English literature and history from 1641–1800, Oscar Wilde, and fine printing. It is located 13 miles from campus, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. The library holds public events such as concerts, tours, exhibits, conferences and community meetings within its 5 acres. The library was founded by William Andrews Clark, Jr. and named after his father, who had amassed a fortune in mining in Montana. The son, a prominent Los Angeles book collector and philanthropist, spent several years (1924–1926) constructing the library at the corner of Adams Boulevard and Cimarron Street. The deed of gift that Clark drew up was signed in 1926, and when he died in 1934, the library and its collections were taken over by the university, in accordance with his wishes.
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Moving images play a key role in shaping society. The UCLA Film & Television Archive is dedicated to safeguarding not only this moving image legacy, but also sharing this rich cultural history with students, scholars, and film lovers. In that effort, the archive reaches almost 40,000 individuals annually through public programming and educational access to vast collection.
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive is internationally renowned for its pioneering efforts to preserve and showcase moving image media. Through an aggressive program of acquisition, restoration, transfer, and maintenance of its extensive collections, the Archive preserves the rich media heritage found in classic and current motion pictures, innovative television programming, and newsreels. The archive constitutes one of the largest collections of moving image media materials in the United States - second only to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. - and the largest of any university in the world. The combined collections represent an all-encompassing documentation of the 20th century. The archive’s permanent collection contains material dating back to the 1890s. The motion picture holdings include major 35mm collections from Paramount Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, Warner Bros., Sony/Columbia Pictures, New World Pictures, Orion Pictures, RKO, and Republic Pictures. In 1981, the bulk of the Hearst Metrotone News collection was donated to the archive, including copyrights, for more than 27 million feet of theatrically released newsreels, unreleased stories and outtakes. The archive houses a sizeable number of independent films in the Sundance Collection; the largest collection of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender moving images as part of the UCLA/Outfest Legacy Collection; and an extensive collection of African-American films through a partnership with the Mayme Clayton Library. Additionally, the archive holds major film collections donated by the American Film Institute, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, and the Stanford Theatre Foundation.
P R O J E C T S ARCHIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTER With one of the largest collections of moving images in the United States, the UCLA Film & Television Archive serves as a comprehensive research destination. The Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC) coordinates upwards of 9,000 requests for materials or viewings on an annual basis. ARSC’s outreach in support of academic research includes student awards and visiting researcher stipends to encourage scholarly access to collections. ARSC answers research questions relating to archive collections and makes referrals to other research sources, as appropriate.
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PUBLIC PROGRAMMING The archive presents an adventurous and eclectic slate of some 400 screenings a year, making hard-to-see alternative and international cinema available to about 30,000 audience members annually. Frequent talks by filmmakers, critics, and other guests enrich the archive’s programming.
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Theresa Willis Peters CONTACT Theresa Willis Peters Phone: 310-825-7681 Fax: 310-206-3843 trwillis@arts.ucla.edu http://www.uclalive.org/dfs
DESIGN FOR SHARING/CENTER FOR THE ART OF PERFORMANCE AT UCLA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & ARCHITECTURE B100 Royce Hall Box 951529 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Design for Sharing is the free K-12 arts education program of the Center for the Art of Performance. Dedicated to making the performing arts at UCLA an accessible and inspirational part of children’s lives, DFS provides interactive and educational experiences for approximately fifteen thousand students each year. Students attend special performances at UCLA; participate in arts residency programs; and receive advance educational materials, links and resources to artists and arts information. All DFS programs are free of charge and are available to any public school in Los Angeles County. Since its inception in 1969, more than 500,000 students have attended DFS activities.
P R O J E C T S DEMONSTRATION PERFORMANCES Collaborating with local and international artists Design for Sharing presents grade appropriate performances where students experience diverse art forms and interact with professional artists from Los Angeles and around the world. Educational materials are provided to every classroom, and include information about each artistic discipline, the artists involved, and discussion or activity guides. For many students a visit to Royce Hall is a first: the first time in a concert hall, the first time experiencing a live performance, and the first time on a university campus.
MY SPECIAL WORLD & PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS These activities allow students to explore diverse art forms in an interactive setting with professional artists. My Special World programs offer our youngest audiences (K-3) hands-on experiences in specific genres. Performance Workshops create similar intimate, behind-the-scenes opportunities for small groups of older students, giving insight into the creative process.
SCHOOL RESIDENCES/PARTNERSHIP Classroom residencies offer students an environment to participate in arts activities that complement curriculum, build communication skills and enhance learning. The goal of the program is to give students an opportunity to go beyond the traditional experience of observing an arts event and become active participants in the creative process. Residencies are created in collaboration with classroom teachers to target specific curriculum themes and meet the National Arts Standards. 136 2014
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STEPS TO COLLEGE Design for Sharing has developed college readiness materials for grades six-12 with a planning guide and accompanying worksheet that is distributed to all middle and high school students attending DFS performances. Campus tours are also offered following the performance, deepening the impact of a visit to UCLA, and inspiring students to think about the possibilities of higher education.
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The outreach mission of the UCLA Department of Music promotes a lifelong engagement with music through a comprehensive program of cultural activities, community performances, and educational opportunities. At present, our goals are accomplished through the Maxwell H. Gluck Music Performance and Music Education Outreach Programs and the UCLA Music Partnership Program.
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P R O J E C T S MAXWELL H. GLUCK FOUNDATION MUSIC EDUCATION OUTREACH PROGRAM The Gluck Education Outreach Program provides weekly two-hour sessions of training for UCLA music students to better prepare them for these educational-outreach activities. Each education ensemble gives a minimum of six performances/workshops per year in selected Los Angeles schools.
MAXWELL H. GLUCK FOUNDATION MUSIC PERFORMANCE OUTREACH PROGRAM The Music Performance Outreach Program takes our finest musicians to senior centers, schools, and other institutions throughout the Southern California community, bringing high-quality musical performances and education free of charge to individuals and groups that might otherwise not have the opportunity to hear live classical and jazz music. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of performances featuring piano soloists, duos, trios, vocal quartets, string quartets, jazz combos, woodwinds, and brass ensembles.
MAXWELL H. GLUCK FOUNDATION OPERA OUTREACH PROGRAM The Opera Outreach Program is committed to providing in-depth music and arts experiences for students in Los Angeles-area schools. The program brings young audiences to UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall for an opportunity to experience live opera, often for the first time. Prior to the opera field trip, teachers receive educational packets to help familiarize their students with various aspects of the upcoming performance.
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UCLA MUSIC PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM For the past 15 years, the UCLA Music Partnership Program has sent UCLA music students into Los Angeles’ most underserved inner-city communities to provide music training and mentoring to talented at-risk youths. UCLA music students teach and inspire more than 1,500 inner-city youth annually at five partnership sites. While weekly lessons are the core of the program, participants participate in academic tutoring, college prep activities, and opportunities to attend musical and cultural events throughout Los Angeles.
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UCLA ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & ARCHITECTURE 1630 Schoenberg Music Building Box 951657 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Established in 1961, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive open to anyone interested in studying musical traditions. We host visitors ranging from UCLA students to members of the broader Southern California community to scholars from a continent away. Our collection of more than 150,000 audio, video, print, and photographic items documents music from all around the world, from traditional West African drumming to contemporary Japanese pop. The Ethnomusicology Archive is committed to being an active, engaged, and valued partner within the surrounding community. We serve the community in a number of ways and at several levels. As a support unit for UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology, we preserve and provide access to audio and video recordings of the department's world music concerts and lectures going back nearly 50 years. As part of a state institution based in Los Angeles, we make special efforts to collect and preserve unique or important recordings of the many musical traditions of California. We serve individual musicians, students, scholars, and those interested in cultural heritage by providing access to our collections of unique and hard-to-find recordings. Archive librarians regularly answer questions from community members seeking out recordings and information about a particular form of music. We are available for consultation by individuals and organizations that are planning projects to preserve culturally significant recordings or document the musical life of communities. The archive has partnered with selected community organizations on audiovisual preservation grants in which the granting agency requires participation of a qualified archivist. We also seek out our own grants to preserve and make accessible the most important materials in our collections. The Ethnomusicology Archive typically partners with cultural heritage or educational organizations. We participate in projects that help local communities document and rediscover their musical heritage. We also host small groups and give orientations on topics including using the archive, doing research with audiovisual primary sources, audiovisual preservation, and fieldwork documentation.
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Listening and viewing facilities are available on site. Recordings do not circulate and may not be duplicated without written permission from the copyright holders, collectors, and/or performers. The archive is recognized as an important center of ethnomusicological research and discovery by international scholars and organizations, local community members, and UCLA students and faculty. As part of the University of California and as an institution located within the state, the Archive has a special interest in collecting and preserving the music of California. The archive’s California collections include D.K. Wilgus (a renowned authority on Anglo-American folksongs who directed five folk music festivals at UCLA); C.C. Smith (host of KPFK’s “Global Village”); Don Ellis (Grammy-winning jazz musician); Dick Krum (scholar of Eastern European dance); Harry Middleton Hyatt (African American folklorist); Edward LeVeque (Mexican American actor and DJ); and Chicano Heritage (1975 Ethnic Heritage Grant from the United States Office of Education to survey and study “The Traditional Arts and Oral History of Chicanos in Greater Los Angeles”). As a public institution and a member of the Southern California community, the archive works to forge close and creative partnerships with those living in the Los Angeles area and beyond. To that end, the archive has partnered with community organizations on two UCLA in LA grants: “Archiving Filipino-American Music in Los Angeles” and “Gospel Archiving in Los Angeles,” helping community culture centers to archive, preserve, and make accessible their unique materials.
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The Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) develops much-needed arts programs for underserved youth in a variety of formats: in-school, after-school, summer and immersive one week arts residencies. Additionally, VAPAE is committed to serving the undergraduate population by offering courses designed to introduce students to key issues and methodologies in the field of arts education and to a broad range of possible
Phone: 310-794-4822 Fax: 310-206-9129 VAPAE@arts.ucla.edu http://www.arts.ucla.edu/vapae
careers in the arts, including K-12 teaching, museum education, art therapy, teaching artist, and arts advocacy. VAPAE provides a unique educational experience through course work, internship opportunities, and campus-wide lectures for undergraduates and the community at large, while its special projects creatively serve the needs of K-12 pupils in urban Los Angeles. Although students from all fields of study are encouraged to participate fully in the VAPAE program, the VAPAE minor is reserved specifically for deeply trained artists in the School of the Arts and Architecture. Through the VAPAE program, UCLA students have the opportunity to refine their creative abilities, develop teaching skills, gain practical experience and share their commitment to the arts with the broader community.
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P R O J E C T S ARTS EDUCATION INTERNSHIPS IN THE COMMUNITY While the Arts Education Teaching Sequence provides VAPAE students with their initial teaching experience in a K-12 classroom, additional arts education courses are offered to provide students with opportunities to teach in an expanded range of educational settings, including afterschool programs and community centers. Students are eager to build upon their initial AETS teaching experience by committing to additional community work, working 8-10 hours per week in a supervised internship setting in K-12 schools or community arts organizations. Students meet on a regular basis with an instructor and provide periodic reports of their experience.
ARTS EDUCATION TEACHING SEQUENCE The Arts Education Teaching Sequence (AETS), the core of the VAAE Program, provides a unique opportunity for selected UCLA students from various arts backgrounds and departments to create a small supportive community that works together over an entire academic year to focus on arts education and social justice for underserved communities and diverse populations. AETS continues to serve as UCLA’s primary introduction to the field of arts education and as the pedagogical foundation for the 8-week guided teaching implementation at a K-12 school site. AETS courses continue to be cross-listed in the School of the Arts and Architecture and the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, and can be counted towards the fulfillment of requirements in both the VAPAE and Education Minors.
CLASSROOM-IN-RESIDENCE AT THE HAMMER Classroom-in-Residence at the Hammer Museum (CIR@H) is an innovative and ambitious pilot project, designed to strengthen and advance student and teacher learning through a weeklong, immersive experience at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Developed by the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) in UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, in collaboration with the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Community School (UCS), this ground-breaking project provides a collaborative, multi-faceted, co-cognitive learning experience, with an emphasis on arts integration, for 60 sixth grade pupils, 2 classroom teachers, UCLA undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, along with Hammer Museum educators, curators, artists, and staff.
UCLA CLARK LIBRARY BOOK ARTS PILOT PROJECT Selected pupils from the UCLA Lab School, UCLA Community School, and 24th Street Elementary School collaborate at the Clark Library for a weeklong arts immersion program that engages them in the creative process of bookmaking. This pilot project is designed to introduce children to primary source materials at the Clark Library using critical inquiry, creative writing, and the visual and performing arts. All programming is intended to extend the innovative arts and writing curricula from UCLA into West Adams, an underserved neighborhood at the heart of Los Angeles. Inspired by books of different size and design, illustrated and annotated, the summer program culminates in the creation and exhibition of their original book of thoughts, illustrations, poems and stories that give voice and vision to children from a variety of life experiences.
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UCLA COMMUNITY SCHOOL ACADEMICAMP One hundred sixth through ninth grade UCLA Community School (UCS) pupils are exposed to three interdisciplinary art making experiences by participating in a four-week summer intensive. VAPAE undergraduate students implement three literacy-based visual and performing arts units of study for the UCS pupils—Bookmaking, Literacy through Dance, and Visual Art. UCS pupils participate in a daylong field trip to UCLA which includes three, two-hour master classes in Visual Arts, Theater, and Dance, led by VAPAE undergraduates. The summer experience culminates in a weeklong residency at UCLA’s UniCamp.
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The Center for Civil Society is the focal point for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ programs and activities in nonprofit leadership and management, grassroots advocacy, nongovernmental organizations, and philanthropy. Located in the global city of Los Angeles, the center focuses on both regional and international aspects of civil society. The center coordinates teaching on nonprofit organizations and aspects of civil society; conducts research; and offers seminars, conferences, colloquia, and executive education as part of our community engagement. In undertaking these mutually supporting activities, we seek to contribute to the pol-
William Parent Phone: 310-206-4136 Fax: 310-206-5773 parent@publicaffairs.ucla.edu http://publicaffairs.ucla.edu/ content/center-civil-society-0
icy dialogue on the current and future role of nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and civil society. A healthy civil society offers the hope of an expansion of local democracy, just and efficient service delivery, and the creation of a shared and inclusive civic identity. These are the aspirations of the Center of Civil Society: that through research, teaching, and community engagement with nonprofit and community-based organizations, civil society in Los Angeles, and worldwide, will be strengthened and sustained.
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The Department of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs produces timely scholarship on issues of local, national, and international import such as education policy, health policy, crime, urban poverty, local and regional industry, and the environment, as well as the relationship between the labor and housing markets, and attitudes about race relations among ethnic groups in Los Angeles.
Stacey Hirose Phone: 310-825-7667 Fax: 310-267-2381 stacey@luskin.ucla.edu http://publicaffairs.ucla.edu/
The department is dedicated to improving decision making in the public interest through research directed to-
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ward public issues, educating public policy professionals, and partnering with public servants and the community to disseminate and apply new and existing knowledge for solving public problems. Founded in 1994 with the creation of the UCLA School of Public Affairs, the department’s faculty and students continue to make important connections and contributions in the local and surrounding communities.
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Research, participation, and contribution to the Los Angeles area include: 1) The establishment of a California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center, confirming UCLA’s place in the region as a resource for policy research in this important health area; 2) A study of the booming prison population locally, statewide, and nationally, assessing the costs and benefits of the growing prison system; 3) The annual publication of California Policy Options, including timely scholarship on important local and statewide public policy issues including education, the economy, the environment, housing, employment and health care; 4) The appointment of a recent graduate of the MPP program as UCLA’s first sustainability coordinator to serve as a catalyst for making UCLA’s green and sustainability initiatives more effective; 5) Faculty service on local boards such as the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners, the Harbor and Taxi commissions for the City of Los Angeles, and the United Way of Greater Los Angeles; 6) A comprehensive study of women in the Los Angeles County jail system; and, 7) Research on the green manufacturing industry in Los Angeles for Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), a South LA based nonprofit organization. The Department of Public Policy attracts top students from across the United States and abroad committed to careers in public service. Internships and client projects have allowed public policy students to work on policy-related issues in the Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles. Through the Michael J. Dukakis Fellowship, public policy students have been able to participate in the community and work on important community issues through internships with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, First 5 LA, and the California Public Utilities Commission. A student-organized lecture series has brought members of the Los Angeles consular corps to UCLA to provide public forums on current issues. The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs also offers a Graduate Research Service (GRC) that conducts fasttrack research, timely gatherings, and training in the public interest in the Los Angeles region. GRC offers accurate qualitative and quantitative analysis in the fields of public policy and related topics. Research is conducted under the supervision of UCLA faculty, primarily by graduate students and alumni of the UCLA School of Public Affairs. The GRC serves policy makers, legislators, and agencies working in the public interest that often need optimal recommendations in short time frames and in clear, accessible summaries.
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The Department of Social Welfare has been a part of UCLA and the surrounding Los Angeles community for more than 60 years. The department has been described by the Council of Social Work Education as among the “topflight programs of graduate social work education in the United States.” The department has been lauded for the scholarly reputation of faculty and the richness and effectiveness of the department’s field program.
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The UCLA Department of Social Welfare is recognized as a national leader in the fields of gerontology, mental health, health policy, and child and family policy. Faculty members are also active in research areas, including nonprofit leadership and management, approaches to welfare reform, mental disorder, child and family welfare, HIV and drug abuse, school social work, independent living for people with disabilities, and social supports for older populations. The department’s faculty and students are actively engaged in and deeply committed to the Los Angeles area. The Center for Civil Society produces an annual report on the state of the nonprofit sector in Los Angeles that has monitored the growth of the nonprofit sector, as well as other important data related to the city’s thousands of nonprofit organizations. The center serves as the focal point for the school’s programs and activities in nonprofit leadership and management, grassroots advocacy, nongovernmental organizations, and philanthropy. • Social Welfare faculty have begun a two-year longitudinal research project to evaluate the effectiveness of LA-based Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention/re-entry agency in the United States, serving approximately 10,000 clients each year. The research is funded by a $200,000 grant from the Haynes Foundation. • With more than 20,000 youth in Los Angeles County per year interfacing with the largest juvenile probation system in the nation, faculty have conducted research that seeks to understand the needs of returning youth offenders and the barriers this population may face in meeting these needs, and applying findings to re-entry policy and practice. • Master of Social Welfare (MSW) students working with the office of Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl spent 20 weeks researching the stigmatization of the homeless in Los Angeles communities. The students helped formulate core messages to challenge stereotypical perceptions of the homeless population in a public education campaign that included an educational video produced in conjunction with LA Cityview 35. • Through internships with more than 100 public and nonprofit agencies in Los Angeles, students provide thousands of hours of direct services in agencies, including the City of Los Angeles Commission on Children, Youth and Families; the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health; the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services AIDS Programs; United Way of Greater Los Angeles; Veterans Affairs Medical Centers; and the City of Los Angeles Department of Aging. 145 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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The Master of Social Welfare (MSW) program at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs seeks to educate social workers for leadership in a range of practice roles, emphasizing preparation for professional responsibility within agency-based social services, particularly those serving poor and vulnerable populations. The school’s faculty actively collaborates with the practice community, not only through field instruction, but also by studying policies and practices in social welfare settings, developing and testing interventions in health and human services agencies, and providing technical assistance to service professionals and policy makers in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs also offers a Graduate Research Service (GRC), which conducts fasttrack research, timely gatherings and training in the public interest in the Los Angeles region. GRC offers accurate qualitative and quantitative analysis in the fields of social welfare and related topics. Research is conducted under the supervision of UCLA faculty, primarily by graduate students and alumni of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The GRC serves policy makers, legislators, and agencies working in the public interest that often need optimal recommendations in short time frames and in clear, accessible summaries.
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DEPARTMENT OF URBAN PLANNING LUSKIN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 3250 School of Public Affairs Building Box 951656 Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA urban planners are concerned with the social and physical organization of society at geographic scales from local neighborhoods to global communities. As a discipline, urban planning, evolving from its early roots in physical planning, approaches urban problems through understanding the social, economic, and spatial relationships that shape the well-being of communities, cities, and regions. Locally, the work of the urban planning faculty has helped raise awareness of the plight of day laborers and the homeless, as well as the spatial mismatch between inner-city residents and available work, and demographic patterns such as Asian American political engagement and the well-being of groups in the region such as Native American and Alaska native adults and children. Through the department’s Community Scholars Program, local community and labor leaders have the opportunity to work with faculty and graduate students on collaborative projects such as those that explore innovative approaches to address climate change and create green jobs through green building construction and retrofitting. The Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), housed in the school, is one of the leading transportation policy research centers in the United States. Each year, ITS faculty, students, and research staff collaborate on a wide array of transportation-policy and planning studies, ranging from an analysis of the travel trends and transportation needs of immigrants and low-income workers to the testing and evaluation of innovative fare programs to increase public transit use.
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Established in 1969, the Department of Urban Planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs has consistently been ranked among the nation's top planning programs. It contains one of the largest clusters of policy specialists anywhere, and faculty research has had a major impact on planning and public policy on every level—from local community development to the problems of rural development and environmental degradation in the Third World. The department's faculty and alumni are recognized intellectual and professional leaders in the provision of public services, transportation, housing and community development, environmental regulation and resource management, and regional and international development. The faculty is united by a shared commitment to applied, action-oriented, problem-solving research, and teaching that is particularly concerned with socially, economically, and politically disadvantaged populations. Urban Planning at UCLA addresses not only the administration of governmental regulations and programs, but broader economic, political, and social questions as well.
P R O J E C T S REPORTS REGARDING LOS ANGELES ISSUES • Near-roadway air pollution impacts of goods movement (from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach) and transportation corridors and associated health effects. • Insurance “redlining” in Los Angeles, a practice in which premiums are determined using a placebased component adversely affect those living in African American and poor neighborhoods. • The first greenhouse gas inventory and sustainability report for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency. • The design and operation of safe transit systems and assessment of current practices locally and abroad. • A report on the demographics of public safety, education, housing, and employment in South Los Angeles. • The working conditions of taxi drivers in Los Angeles. • The stimulation of supermarket development in underserved areas such as South Los Angeles.
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NATIVE NATIONS LAW & POLICY CENTER SCHOOL OF LAW 2138 Murphy Hall Box 951405 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The mission of the UCLA Native Nations Law & Policy Center (NNLPC) is to support Native Nations nationally in enhancing their governmental institutions and laws, strengthen cultural resource protections, and address critical public policy issues by bringing together the university’s academic resources and the knowledge and experience of tribal leaders and knowledge-holders. The NNLPC includes the following programs and projects: • Research and Publications • Tribal Legal Development Clinic • Tribal Learning Community and Educational Exchange • Think Tank on Indian Country Issues
P R O J E C T S TRIBAL LEGAL DEVELOPMENT CLINIC Students in this clinic provide non-litigation legal assistance to Indian nations. Projects include the development and modification of tribal legal codes and constitutional provisions, the creation of tribal dispute-resolution processes and the drafting of intergovernmental agreements. Skills that are emphasized in this clinic are legislative drafting and cross-cultural representation. Faculty members meet with tribal leaders to inform them of the availability of clinic services and to determine whether the clinic could assist them with their legal development needs. Once students are assigned to particular projects, they meet with relevant tribal officials and community groups with travel funds supplied by the school. Students learn about tribal governments and legal systems, including federal constraints on the activities of tribal legal institutions. They also learn about the culture of the tribe that they are representing, in order to be able to craft legislation and other documents that meet tribal intentions and needs.
TRIBAL LEARNING COMMUNITY AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE The Tribal Learning Community & Educational Exchange (TLCEE) is an innovative legal and general-education program housed at the UCLA School of Law. With its interdisciplinary scope, TLCEE joins Native peoples’ perspectives, knowledge, priorities, and visions for the future with the academic world at UCLA. TLCEE’s primary goal is to develop relevant courses for delivery to Native community members and UCLA students interested in American Indian Studies. Collaborating with Native community members and traditional knowledge bearers, TLCEE focuses on enhancing Native governance and cultural resource protection. TLCEE also encourages Native youth and tribal community members to enroll in college-level courses, and works to serve as a base for Native community members attending UCLA.
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As part of its effort to link the UCLA community to Native communities locally, nationally, and internationally, TLCEE works with the Tribal Legal Development Clinic to train UCLA law students as they develop and implement nation-building projects with Native community leaders. TLCEE also creates opportunities for UCLA graduate and undergraduate students to contribute their talents to these projects through a series of courses called "Working in Tribal Communities," which is offered in conjunction with the Interdepartmental Program in American Indian Studies. Through the UCLA Extension Tribal Learning Community, TLCEE collaborates with tribal members, traditional knowledge bearers, as well as professionals from the Tribal Law and Policy Institute to bring information to the communities on a wide range of topics by offering online courses such as "Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies and Violence Against Native Women." Online instruction is open to anyone with an interest in understanding issues affecting Native peoples, including tribal members, administrators, and leaders. To be as inclusive as possible, UCLA Extension does not require a high school degree to enroll in its courses. For more information, visit https://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1981.
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The Office of Public Interest Programs enhances the School of Law’s longstanding commitment to public service by serving all students through its pro bono initiatives, lectures and discussion series, and career-oriented programs and counseling services. The office’s mission is to encourage all students to embrace a career that incorporates an ongoing commitment to public service. The office strives to attain that mission by: 1) Providing a variety of career- and job-search related services to students and alumni interested in
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exploring and pursuing pro bono opportunities, public interest internships and/or postgraduate public interest employment. 2) Hosting and sponsoring public interest career-related events and programs, including the annual Southern California Public Interest/Public Sector Career Day. 3) Encouraging and facilitating student pro bono efforts. 4) Administering the Summer Public Service Fellowship Program. 5) Serving as the School of Law’s principal information center for public interest and community service activities.
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The Office of Public Interest Programs supports the variety of volunteer legal clinics coordinated by law students through El Centro Legal Clinics, which is the School of Law’s student-coordinated network of volunteer legal aid clinics. Through each of El Centro's now ten clinics, students provide legal services on a volunteer basis to a variety of communities in the Greater Los Angeles area. Clinics focus on issues related to housing and homelessness, immigration, juvenile justice, landlord/tenant issues, domestic violence, employment issues, legal access for LAUSD students and their parents/guardians and veterans, youth deportation, LGBTQ empowerment, and workers’ rights. Each clinic has its own volunteers, leadership, practice area and client base. Each Clinic partners with at least one local public interest organization in the provision of services to communities in need. For additional information on El Centro Legal Clinics, see http://www.law.ucla.edu/elcentro/. The Office also coordinates a number of specific pro bono (volunteer) efforts in addition to encouraging and facilitating pro bono work more generally through its various other initiatives. Among these specific efforts are innovative collaborations with local public interest organizations and law firms that afford law students an opportunity to engage in pro bono work. Thus, for example, through a partnership with the Alliance for Children’s Rights and the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, students work to finalize foster care adoptions, cutting through bureaucracy and red tape to help children waiting to be part of a new family. As another example, through the partnership with Public Counsel’s Homeless Prevention Project, the law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP and New Directions, the School of Law’s own student military veterans help provide critically needed legal services to homeless veterans.
P R O J E C T S FACILITATING PRO BONO WORK BY LAW STUDENTS The Office of Public Interest Programs supports the variety of volunteer legal clinics coordinated by law students through El Centro Legal Clinics, which is the School of Law’s student-coordinated network of volunteer legal aid clinics. Through each of El Centro's now ten clinics, students provide legal services on a volunteer basis to a variety of communities in the Greater Los Angeles area. Clinics focus on issues related to bankruptcy, education, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, immigration, juvenile justice, landlord/tenant issues, domestic violence and workers’ rights. Each clinic has its own volunteers, leadership, practice area and client base. Each Clinic partners with at least one local public interest organization in the provision of services to communities in need. For additional information on El Centro Legal Clinics, see http://www.law.ucla.edu/elcentro/. The office also coordinates a number of specific pro bono (volunteer) efforts in addition to encouraging and facilitating pro bono work more generally through its various other initiatives. Among these specific efforts are innovative collaborations with local public interest organizations and law firms that afford law students an opportunity to engage in pro bono work. Thus, for example, through a partnership with the Alliance for Children’s Rights and the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, students work to finalize foster care adoptions, cutting through bureaucracy and red tape to help children waiting to be part of a new family. As another example, through the partnership with Public Counsel’s Homeless Prevention Project, the law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP and New Directions, the School of Law’s own student military veterans help provide critically needed legal services to homeless veterans.
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SUMMER PUBLIC SERVICE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The Office of Public Interest Programs facilitates and administers the funding of student public service summer work. Each of the last few years, approximately 150 first- and second-year law students have volunteered full-time during the summer with nonprofit public interest organizations and local, state and federal government agencies and offices. The school, through a variety of sources, has provided summer fellowships to these students. In turn, those students working in public interest organizations have provided legal services to underrepresented individuals and communities in the greater Los Angeles area and beyond. Los Angeles-area organizations and agencies with which students work during their summers typically include:
• ACLU Foundation of Southern California • The Alliance for Children’s Rights • Anti-Defamation League • Bet Tzedek Legal Services • California Indian Legal Services • California Rural Legal Assistance • California Women’s Law Center • Central American Resource Center • Children’s Law Center • Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking • Disability Rights California • Disability Rights Legal Center • Eviction Defense Network • Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law • Housing Rights Center • LA Gay & Lesbian Center • Learning Rights Law Center • Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles • Los Angeles Waterkeeper • Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund • National Center for Lesbian Rights • National Day Laborer Organizing Network • National Health Law Program • National Immigration Law Center • Public Counsel • Santa Monica Baykeeper • South Asian Network • Western Center on Law & Poverty
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THE LUSKIN CENTER FOR INNOVATION LUSKIN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs 3323 Public Affairs Building, Box 951656 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Luskin Center is organized around initiatives that seek to translate world-class research and expertise into real-world policy solutions. Research initiatives are carefully selected to utilize UCLA’s strengths and then carefully designed and reviewed to maximize the likelihood of spurring innovation. Research initiatives are led by a Luskin Scholar and are supported by teams of faculty, graduate students, and staff from a variety of academic disciplines. The Luskin Center supports these initiatives by funding original research, scholars, graduate students, conferences, community events, and solution-oriented speaker series. The current initiatives include business and the environment, clean technology, climate change, green chemistry, smart water systems, and sustainable energy. Luskin Center staff and executive committee members–intellectual and administrative leaders at UCLA–help to identify external opportunities and research needs, as well as UCLA’s strengths in responding to those needs. Luskin scholars and staff then develop and propose initiatives to the Luskin Center advisory board, comprised of executives in private, public, and nonprofit organizations. The advisory board members provide critical advice on the relevance and design of the proposed initiatives and also help ensure the translation of Luskin Center research findings into innovative policy solutions.
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THE RALPH AND GOLDY LEWIS CENTER FOR REGIONAL POLICY STUDIES LUSKIN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 3320 Public Affairs Building Box 951656 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Lewis Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study and understanding of policy issues affecting California, particularly in the areas of urban environment, transportation, housing, and community and economic development. Every year, the Lewis Center sponsors public lectures and seminars, convenes conferences to stimulate intellectual debate and dialogue, and organizes workshops to engage and educate public officials and the general public. The center sponsors visiting fellows and distinguished scholars from around the nation and world, collaborates with researchers at other California universities and research institutes, and involves more than 90 faculty members and numerous graduate students from schools and departments throughout the university. Researchers frequently deliver briefings and testimony to elected officials and community groups, provide media interviews, and advise public- and private-sector leaders. A series of working papers and other Lewis Center publications are freely accessible on our website. The center was founded in 1988 through a generous endowment established by Ralph and Goldy Lewis, and is also supported by private and corporate foundations, individual donors and research grants from government agencies.
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P R O J E C T S A CONTRAST IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LOS ANGELES VS. SAN FRANCISCO, 1970-2007 This research project examines why Los Angeles’ metropolitan area income has fallen increasingly behind that of other major metropolitan areas, such as San Francisco, which has fared better. The study provides an analysis of the obstacles to implementing better economic development policies for the region.
A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION AFFORDABILITY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY Increases in fuel prices, combined with the deep downturn in the economy, have raised concerns about the burdens of transportation costs on low-income families. We propose to investigate this issue, focusing specifically on neighborhood variation in the percentage of household incomes spent on housing and transportation.
AIDS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM This multidisciplinary predoctoral and postdoctoral research-training program for academic and non-academic research careers focuses on service systems for persons living with HIV/AIDS. The training program is designed and led by HIV scholars from medicine, psychology, public policy, sociology, psychiatry, community health sciences, health services, epidemiology, nursing and social welfare. The program includes a threeyear sequence for advanced students pursuing a Ph.D. in the social sciences or psychology and public health, and a two-year training sequence for those with a doctorate in the social sciences or psychology. The program features a biweekly core seminar, foundation training in HIV/AIDS research, trainee participation under faculty supervision in HIV research projects, bio-statistical and epidemiological methods training, health evaluation methods training, training in the responsible conduct of research and field experience with a community-based HIV organization.
ARE THEY WELCOME? UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC OPINION ON IMMIGRANTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA This project examines opposition to, and support for, legal and illegal immigration in Southern California. The study uses multivariate analysis with both individual and neighborhood factors to examine the determinants of regional public opinion on immigration. The study offers insights for immigration policy, both locally and nationally.
CALCULATING THE COSTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES Upcoming climate change legislation that adds costs to coal and natural gas could also raise household electricity costs. This research project measures the magnitude of such financial costs on households. Researchers estimate that a tax or price increase of $15 per ton of carbon dioxide from burning coal would increase average annual household electricity bills by 15 percent. The study calculates that households in coal-rich states could see increases of 65-105 percent in annual electricity bills, while those in low-coal-burning states could increase by 1 percent or less. Findings from the research also will be used to identify other policies to help states and households cope with short-term price increases, especially since rising electricity prices will most significantly hurt states with higher poverty rates. 153 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE HOUSING PLAN UPDATE Researchers on this project will produce an update of the California Statewide Housing Plan (CSHP), which facilitates efforts by HCD to address housing goals and fulfills Health and Safety Code Section 50450. Researchers will examine and assess major demographic, economic, employment conditions and policy trends that will likely influence the state’s future housing needs to 2025.
CO-PARENTING BETWEEN SINGLE MOTHERS AND NONRESIDENTS AND NONRESIDENT FATHERS IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES: A FEASIBILITY PILOT STUDY The Pilot Study on Co-parenting will examine whether a 3-month psychoeducation group intervention can improve relations between low-income single black mothers and the nonresident fathers of their 3-4 year old children. There is evidence that the extent of nonresident fathers' contact with their preschool children and the children's mothers is associated with beneficial developmental outcomes for the children over time.
COMPLETE STREETS FOR CALIFORNIA The UCLA Complete Streets Initiative is a Luskin School of Public Affairs-wide program working to achieve more livable and complete streets for people in the Los Angeles region. Complete streets enable people to travel safely regardless of their transportation mode, ability or age. The Initiative expands beyond complete streets to also encompass living streets concepts in street design in areas such as, street-water management, landscaping and fostering vibrant economic development.
CONGESTION AND ACCESSIBILITY: WHAT'S THE RELATIONSHIP This research project focuses on how measures of transportation accessibility and congestion vary in metropolitan areas. Using GIS-based methods, empirical measures of accessibility will be developed that account both for mobility constraints at a given location and the potential destinations accessible within those constraints. This research shifts the unit of analysis in congestion measurement from the transportation network to travelers by focusing on accessibility instead of system performance.
CREDIBLE COMMITMENT AND CONGESTION PRICING This project deconstructs the political obstacles to adopting and implementing congestion pricing. Using survey data, in-depth interviews with local officials, and ethnographic data from a proposal for high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, the researchers show that proper redistribution of toll revenue will help mitigate concerns about equity, double-taxation, and overall declines in welfare that often accompany congestion pricing. However, the success of any congestion-pricing proposal depends crucially on trust between toll collectors and revenue recipients.
DO CARBON REGISTRIES WORK? AN EVALUATION OF THE CALIFORNIA CLIMATE ACTION REGISTRY The California Climate Action Registry was created to both certify firms’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to induce reductions in emissions over time. This research project evaluates the performance of this carbon registry from its inception in 2000 until 2008, and examines which types of firms within the capped and uncapped sectors participated, whether they reported direct and indirect emissions, what types of gases they 154 2014
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reported, and how long they participated. Researchers also evaluated the extent of sectoral participation to determine whether information useful to regulators was generated by the registry. Finally, researchers evaluated empirical data for trends in firm-specific emissions over this time period to determine whether any firms reduced their emission as a result of the registry and the possible offset credits associated with it. In addition, the legislative evolution of the registry was analyzed as well as changes in the registry’s internal certification procedures.
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS Habitat conservation plans seek to balance the need for environmental conservation with the need for regional growth. The grant would fun research analyzing the effects of habitat conservation plans on the environmental review process for large transportation infrastructure projects.
HOW DO HOUSING VOUCHER RECIPIENTS BALANCE HOUSING, NEIGHBORHOODS, AND TRANSPORTATION? The Housing Voucher Recipients Research will test how household characteristics, car availability, and neighborhood conditions including transit and built environment characteristics affect voucher users’ neighborhood choices. Using existing HUD data with neighborhood data from national and local sources, we will identify opportunities to improve the balance among goals for fair housing, sustainability, and economic selfsufficiency.
LATINO-OWNED BUSINESS AND THE GREATER LOS ANGELES ECONOMY This project analyzes the role that Latino-owned firms play in the Greater Los Angeles economy. Specifically, the report describes the prevalence of these firms, their sector-specific locations, and their potential for growth within the regional economy. The second objective of this report is to describe how to best strengthen Latinoowned firms to achieve region-wide growth and, more immediately, a recovery in the regional economy. Researchers identify the unique needs and challenges that Latino-owned firms currently face within the region, and provide recommendations on strategies for providing necessary technical assistance and policy reforms.
LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE The Local Climate Change Initiative is designed to strengthen local governments’ capacity to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change. The program is generating and disseminating new knowledge to support the creation of state policies addressing local emissions, to assist local governments in meeting these new regulatory demands, and to promote best practices in local government climate action policies.
NEIGHBORHOOD-BASED CULTURAL TOURISM NETWORK This research project measured neighborhood cultural assets that may be used to promote economic development in Los Angeles’ ethnically diverse, low-income areas. The study measured the impacts of infrastructure investment and cultural tourism programming in the ethnic enclaves of Highland Park, Leimert Park, and Thai Town. The project created a local economic-development model that can be applied to these and other Los Angeles neighborhoods through a focused marketing strategy.
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NOISE AND AIR POLLUTION EXPOSURE FOR TRANSIT RIDERS ON FREEWAY AND NON-FREEWAY LIGHT RAIL STATION PLATFORMS Increasingly, Light Rail Transit (LRT) systems are being planned and constructed in the middle of freeways to avoid the challenges of right-of-way acquisition, increase train speeds, and avoid the hazards of at-grade crossings. In Los Angeles County, such “freeway stations” exist along segments of the Green and Gold lines, and more are being developed along the Gold Line’s Foothill extension. The siting of LRT platforms on a freeway right-of-way may make good economic sense and limit modal conflicts, but may also expose transit riders into a very unhealthy environment. Having to wait at such a problematic transit environment can detract potential transit riders from using transit. Even worse, repeated and long waits on the platform could lead to higher levels of exposure and may have significant adverse effects on the health of riders. This project aims to address the lack of insights into the noise and air pollution levels on LRT stations along freeways and major arterials in Los Angeles.
NURSING HOME CARE COMMUNICATIONS This research examines how best to improve the communication skills of nurse aides in long-term care settings, including therapeutic communication during nursing home care and staff communications with nursing home residents. The research project includes an analysis of open-ended comments from nursing home residents about their interactions with staff as indictors of perceived emotional and instrumental support. The research also includes audio- and video-based measures of communication between providers and patients in medical care settings, and links patients’ perceived support to nursing aides’ communication behaviors. Because nursing aides provide the most care to residents of all nursing home staff, a communications-training program is currently being used to improve the way nursing aides communicate with residents during care.
PARKING AND VEHICLE OWNERSHIP Households that own more cars also tend to drive more miles. But this non-startling result generates a followup question: Why do some households own more cars? A plausible answer is that the availability of off-street parking reduces the cost of vehicle ownership. Unfortunately, this theory is difficult to test on any large scale, because most governments do not measure the number or location of parking spaces in their jurisdictions. Using a variety of data sets, this project explores various proxy measures for off-street parking and attempts to estimate the relationship between parking and the decision to own one or more vehicles.
PARKING AS A REGULATORY BARRIER TO HOUSING This research examines whether, when local governments impose minimum parking standards on development, these requirements impose a “parking tax” on new residential construction. This mandated provision of parking raises the cost of housing and lowers the cost of driving. The research project uses a partial deregulation of parking in Downtown Los Angeles as a natural experiment to show that developers systematically supply less parking when not burdened by the city’s minimum parking requirement.
PARKLETS FOR LOS ANGELES Supported by the Gilbert Foundation, Parklets for Los Angeles aims to capture best practices and lessons learned around creating parklets (small urban parks) to encourage physical activity.
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SENIORS AND PARKS: IDENTIFYING AND RESPONDING TO THE ELDERS NEED FOR OPEN SPACE To address a general lack of scholarly attention to the open space and physical activity needs of the elderly as well as the absence of open space facilities and parks designed with the elderly in mind, the UCLA team will pursue a project that will include three phases. During year 1, we will compile and disseminate information about the open space and physical activity needs of different senior groups and study examples of such spaces in other world cities. During the same year, we will work closely with a group of senior citizens who utilize the St. Barnabas Senior Citizen Center facilities in Los Angeles, to identify their needs and desires in regards to the development of a small park in their neighborhood. During year 2, we will collaborate with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust (LANLT) to help inform the design of a small 0.17-acre park geared towards senior citizens, on 739 S. Coronado St. (adjacent to St Barnabas Senior Citizen Center) in the Westlake neighborhood of LA. This park will include opportunities for both passive and active recreation and exercise. During Year 3, we will evaluate this open space intervention to identify the extent of its impact on the senior citizens that will use it.
TAXI DRIVERS IN LA: WORKFORCE FACING CHANGE This project examines the changing demographics and working conditions of taxi drivers in the City of Los Angeles. Based on a survey of 400 taxi drivers and in-depth interviews of 30 taxi drivers, researchers will document taxi drivers’ demographics, income, health coverage, stress levels and relationships with taxi companies. The findings will help the Los Angeles City Council in considering a proposal by taxi operators to shift to medallions.
THE HIGH COST OF HIGHWAY DEDICATION LAWS Highway dedication laws require developers to widen streets before they can build new housing, to meet the increased travel demand resulting from new activities. These laws, however, increase the costs of housing construction and decrease the costs of driving. This research project uses data from Los Angeles to quantify highway dedication laws’ effects on housing development and driving. The research should have implications for efforts to reduce overall vehicle miles traveled; for plans to better integrate transportation and land use goals; and for attempts to create accessible and vibrant communities in dense center-city areas.
TRANSPORTATION DECISION-MAKERS, PRACTITIONERS AND RESEARCHERS: DIFFERENCES IN THE PRODUCTION AND US Transportation economists and scholars have long argued for the need to price transit services based on the cost of providing service during different times of the day, in different directions and using different modes. Many have long argued that more flexible pricing strategies are superior in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and equity. Yet, most if not all transit agencies have been moving toward simple and flat fare structures. Researchers on this project will survey and interview a variety of transit professionals about their understanding of marginal costs, fare setting and applications of smart cards for transit fare collection, and examine the challenges that practitioners face in implementing more flexible fare policies. Through these data, researchers will test for differences in rationales for pricing transit services and what information these groups deem relevant when setting policy.
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UCLA PROGRAM ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND CLIMATE ACTION POLICIES This program will generate and disseminate new knowledge to assist local governments in meeting the regulatory demands around reducing local and regional greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The program will focus on the following research objectives for local governments: (1) Develop a normative community GHG measurement and accountability framework for local jurisdictions that will guide the implementation of performance standards, (2) Work with California Air Resources Board (CARB), Climate Action Reserve, and other organizations to develop pragmatic community GHG-measurement guidance, (3) Work with the CARB Regional Targets Advisory Committee to set an effective measurement framework for SB375 implementation, (4) Identify the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of alternative mitigation policies, (5) Evaluate the financing alternatives for mitigating and adaptive policies, (6) Assess the distribution of the full social costs of adaptive and mitigating policies, (7) Craft policies that address these distributional impacts.
VOLUNTEERING TO BE TAXED The California Property and Business Improvement District Law (Volunteering to be Taxed) allows commercial property owners in a neighborhood to self-impose a package of taxes and expenditures with a majority vote of property owners. This project examines the effect of AB 3745 on commercial property values and on surrounding residential properties. Using data from the Los Angeles County Assessor’s office on the county’s 2.1 million individual property parcels before and after BID adoption, and relative to the rest of the city, the project findings will be of interest to academics studying urban development and finance, and to policymakers interested in crafting low-cost policies to provide neighborhoods with effective and efficient services.
WHAT BRINGS CHILDREN TO THE PARK? This study identifies the attributes and incentives that bring children to the park, and how these vary by sociodemographic and cultural characteristics of children. The study examines three classes of variables, the combined influences of which may affect participation and type of use of neighborhood parks: (1) neighborhood variables, (2) park variables and (3) type of use of neighborhood parks. This project was completed in January 2009.
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THE UCLA INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION STUDIES LUSKIN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 3250 Public Affairs Building Box 951656 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) is one of the leading transportation policy research centers in the U.S. Each year, dozens of ITS faculty, students and research staff collaborate on a wide array of transportation policy and planning studies. ITS-affiliated research: (1) was cited by the President in announcing changes to federal welfare policy, (2) led to changes in the federal Internal Revenue Code to encourage commuting by alternative travel modes, (3) is regularly quoted in The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and many other leading news sources and (4) has won numerous national awards from leading professional and scholarly organizations.
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ITS researchers frequently deliver briefings and testimony to elected officials, government agencies, and community groups, and provide media interviews. The institute regularly hosts scholarly and practitioner-oriented conferences and public lectures, including the annual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation–Land Use–Environment Connection, which in its 19th year is supported by more than two dozen public and private organizations. Since 1992, ITS has supported hundreds of graduate transportation students with nearly $2 million in scholarships and with paid work on dozens of ITS-affiliated research projects. Graduates of the three ITS-affiliated degree programs in the Department of Public Policy (Master of Public Policy) and Urban Planning (Master of Arts in Urban Planning, Ph.D. in Urban Planning) are in leading positions in government, the private sector and research. Since 2000, ITS-affiliated graduates have taken faculty positions at Columbia, Florida State, SUNY Buffalo, UC Berkeley, the University of New Orleans, and USC, among others. ITS collaborates closely with, and is generously supported by, both the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and the University of California Transportation Center. Institute faculty, staff, and students are also supported by research grants from government agencies.
P R O J E C T S A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY AROUND UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES College campuses and their peripheries are mixed-use environments in which the academic center serves as the core and is surrounded by retail, entertainment, and high-density residential facilities. The result is a multimodal environment with very high walking and biking in conjunction with high vehicle traffic, which increases the potential conflict between the different transportation modes and may create relatively high risk and discomfort for pedestrians and bicyclists. A Comparative Analysis of Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety study will provide a comparative analysis of pedestrian and bicycle safety in and around three different campuses with the explicit goal of identifying possible relationships between urban form and traffic characteristics of the micro-environment and the incidence of crashes. To accomplish this, we have chosen to focus on three different campuses: (i) University of California, Berkeley; ii) University of California, Los Angeles; and (iii) California State University, Sacramento. Using approaches from public health, planning, engineering and urban design, we will examine crash data and urban form data from all three campuses and study the spatial and temporal distribution of pedestrian and bicycle crashes in each campus in order to identify whether characteristics of the built environment contribute to the incidence of pedestrian and bicycle crashes, and suggest design changes to improve pedestrian and cycling safety in these areas.
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EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CONGESTION-PRICED PARKING IN CALIFORNIA Evaluating the Effectiveness of Congestion-Priced Parking in California study observes the parking occupancy on selected dynamically priced blocks in San Francisco and Los Angeles to determine how pricing affects parking occupancy and vehicle occupancy. These are two important determinants of the congestion, pollution and greenhouse gas impacts of auto travel in central cities. We will also examine other factors that might influence the political acceptability of the adoption of congestion priced parking, such as the impact on socioeconomics of drivers.
EVALUATION OF OPEN ROAD ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION FOR CALIFORNIA APPLICATIONS This research examines challenges and opportunities to implement electronic roadway tolling in California, with special attention to the use of public-private transportation partnerships. The research is surveying and evaluating existing open-road electronic-toll-collection facilities in order to evaluate the technical, institutional, political, and social barriers to implementing successful open-road-tolling systems of transport facilities in California.
EXPLORATION AND IMPLICATIONS OF MULTIMODAL STREET PERFORMANCE METRICS: WHAT’S A PASSING GRADE? The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies aims to analyze new multimodal street performance metrics for transportation projects. Through this study, we will enrich our understanding of the ways in which the needs of government regulation results in a reduction of complex transportation systems to simple descriptors.
FIGHTING TRAFFIC AT THE BALLOT BOX: ANTI-CONGESTION POLICY IN LOS ANGELES, 1990-2008 This research evaluates the effectiveness of ballot initiatives in providing new roads, financing more and better public transportation, and imposing restrictions on property development to manage Southern California’s traffic congestion problems. Despite the prevalence of ballot-box transportation planning at the county and city levels of government, academics and policymakers know remarkably little about how, and how well, it works. This project examines both the politics of these ballot initiatives—the factors that lead to their being proposed and approved—and their efficacy.
GREEN CITIES AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is supporting computer scientists and atmospheric scientists at UCLA and Rutgers to assess the potential of connected vehicles to reduce congestion emissions. UCLA ITS researchers are looking into legal concerns, business models, and implications for transit.
IMMIGRANTS AND TRAVEL BEHAVIOR This research examines the relationship between immigrant enclaves and immigrants’ travel behavior. Specifically, the study uses census data to analyze whether immigrants living in ethnic neighborhoods travel shorter distances and are more likely to use alternative travel modes (carpool, transit, walking) than other immigrants. The study will help policymakers and planners to better understand the travel patterns and needs of immigrants, the impact of land use on travel behavior, and the relative roles of acculturation, residential location and economic status in shaping outcomes for immigrant families. 160 2014
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PLANNING FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE READINESS IN METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS Planning for Electric Vehicle Readiness aims to best inform the local government design and implementation of effective plug-in electric vehicle policies as well as develop decision support for landlords and property managers. What are the cost components of PEV charging equipment installations in rental and multifamily housing, and how can charging access be cost-effectively extended to residents of these housing categories?
REMOVING BARRIERS FOR SENIORS AT TRANSIT STOPS/STATIONS This research project identifies and documents seniors’ behavior around bus stops and transit stations in two locations (urban and suburban) in California, summarizes previous work conducted, and develops and tests the impact of various design improvements and interventions to increase transit ridership among seniors.
SCAG BICYCLE DATA CLEARINGHOUSE The SCAG Bicycle Data Clearinghouse seeks to compile, organize, and make accessible all existing bicycle count and survey data collected in Los Angeles County. This data is crucial to effective planning and policymaking, as well as to understanding and communicating the benefits of bicycling. The final result will be a data clearinghouse built by UCLA, where stakeholders can learn how to design a count or survey program to meet their needs, where they can access existing data, and where they can add new data they collect.
SHARED WHEELS IN THE AUTO CITY: EVALUATING LOS ANGELES’ BICYCLE SHARING PROGRAM The study on Los Angeles' Bicycle Sharing Program will investigate the effects on shared travel and activity patterns of those who live and work near bicycle stations. How exactly will the introduction of bicycle sharing into this large, auto-oriented metropolitan area influence people’s activity and travel patterns? Will people switch from driving to cycling and transit, or will bicycling only replace walking trips? Can bike-sharing programs increase the usage of bicycles and make the region greener and healthier? And finally, can bike-sharing programs promote local economic development by encouraging short trips within downtown Los Angeles?
THE TRANSPORTATION, LAND USE, AND ENVIRONMENT CONNECTION ANNUAL POLICY AND RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM SERIES Each fall since 1991, ITS has co-hosted (with the UCLA Extension Public Policy Program) the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation–Land Use–Environment Connection. The symposium series was founded with the goal of creating a conference retreat in which land use, transportation, and environmental scholars and activists can present their ideas to, and interact closely with, policy makers, senior practitioners, and private sector representatives. This invitation-only symposium is held over three days at UCLA’s Lake Arrowhead Conference Center in the San Bernardino Mountains. Past topics and themes have included: “The Role of Land Use Strategies for Improving Transportation and Air Quality,” “Redefining, Reevaluating, and Redefining Transit,” “Tackling Traffic Congestion,” “Finance: The Critical Link,” “Linking Goods Movement to Economic Prosperity and Environmental Quality,” “Planning for Growth: Demographics, Employment, Housing, and Resources,” and “The Future of Cities and Travel.”
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TOOL DEVELOPMENT TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERMODAL CONNECTIVITY (EPIC) TO IMPROVE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION This continuing research project examines how transit systems can reduce the burdens of “out-of-vehicle times” to attract more riders and to increase current users’ customer satisfaction with transit services. Phase 1 of this research project concluded that transit riders want frequent, reliable service in an environment of personal safety, and less important were the physical characteristics of stations and stops. Phase 2 of this project will extend the analysis to include a statewide survey of transit users and transit stops and stations throughout California to gauge the relative importance of various design and facilities features.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION CENTERS (ITS) MULTI-CAMPUS RESEARCH PROGRAM This multi-campus research initiative focuses on sustainable transportation, with particular emphasis on three integrated activities of (1) vehicles and fuels, (2) infrastructure investment and system management and (3) land use and mobility planning. The objective is to leverage the substantial capabilities of UCLA’s ITS and the various other transportation institutes within the UC system to design tools, policies and programs to reduce congestion, oil use, local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in ways that contribute to economic growth and social well-being.
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Alumni Outreach and Engagement’s objective is to engage alumni with each other and to involve them in UCLA’s Alumni Association’s initiatives through geographic alumni networks, cultural networks, and affinity networks, each of which function as extensions of the Alumni Association. Each network develops programs and events to advance the personal, professional and intellectual growth of UCLA alumni. These networks serve the community by partnering and/or participating in community outreach programs such as Habitat
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for Humanity, Rebuild Together, library reading programs, LAUSD reading programs, Red Cross Blood drives, and Beach Clean-Up with the Surfrider Foundation. Alumni networks also hold specific scholarship fundraising events to make attending UCLA a possibility for those who otherwise may not be able to enroll at UCLA.
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The Alumni Scholars Club (ASC) is a student organization for recipients of an Alumni Scholarship from the UCLA Alumni Association. Alumni Scholars are dedicated to both academic excellence and the pursuit of service and extracurricular experiences. These exceptional students are eager to volunteer throughout UCLA and the surrounding community in order to maintain their high level of achievement, as well as renew their schol-
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arships, which require 30 service hours annually. ASC donates more than 15,000 hours to campus-sponsored projects each year. ASC has participated in events and projects such as the Los Angeles Festival of Books, I'm Going to College fairs, and Care Extenders at the Santa Monica UCLA Hospital. For the last four years, ASC has hosted their own Locks of Love event. Every year, ASC recruits more than 220 students, staff, and alumni to donate over 2,300 inches of hair for disadvantaged children suffering from longterm hair loss due to illness. These students are constantly looking for new opportunities to serve and create partnerships with local nonprofit organizations.
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CONTACT Aashish Patel Claire Pomeroy Phone: 310-206-7278 Fax: 310-825-9433 aashish.patel.2012@anderson. UCLA.edu www.andersonc4c.org
UCLA Challenge for Charity (C4C) is the largest charitable organization at The Anderson School at UCLA. Each year, students, faculty, and alumni team up to raise tens of thousands of dollars and volunteer thousands of hours for our two charity partners: Special Olympics and Junior Achievement. C4C organizes volunteer events throughout the year, such as bowl-a-thons and mentor days where MBAs teach basic business skills in nearby elementary schools, in addition to hosting numerous fundraising events, such as the Anderson Talent Showcase and Casino Night. These efforts are part of a West Coast business school competition that runs throughout the year. The competition is comprised of fundraising, volunteering, and the annual Sports weekend held each April at Stanford University. Collectively, the schools in the C4C competition have raised millions of dollars and volunteered hundreds of thousands of hours for their charities. C4C has a 501(c)3 (nonprofit) corporate standing.
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COMMUNITY PROGRAMS OFFICE UCLA STUDENT AFFAIRS 220 Westwood Plaza, Suite 105 Los Angeles, CA 90059 The UCLA Department of Community Programs (CPO) houses the Student Retention Center (SRC), the CPO Student Association (CPOSA) Community Service Projects, and the Student Initiated Access Center (SIAC). Established in 1970 by concerned students, staff, and faculty, the CPO strives to enhance students’ personal growth by demonstrating that their experiences and skills are relevant to community empowerment and help create a better world for all humanity. Within the CPO, there are more than 26 student-initiated communityservice projects, six undergraduate student retention projects, and seven middle/high school outreach and mentorship projects. Through these projects, the CPO affirms that education should include classroom instruction that is relevant to social issues, coupled with action that helps incorporate theories from the classroom into practice. CPO volunteers, full-time professional project directors, and the CPO management team work year-round to establish and implement educational, social, cultural, medical, and academic services to underserved communities throughout Southern California.
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P R O J E C T S AB540 The AB540 Project was created in 2005 with the intention to serve the undocumented student population. Our mission is to inform and educate undocumented high school and community college students about AB540 and other resources available in their pursuit of higher education. The mentoring component builds a solid relationship between current AB540 UCLA students and potential incoming AB540 students to foster support and guidance to navigate the educational system. Our workshop component provides small workshops to students, educators, and the general community to further inform them about the issues affecting the undocumented student experience. Our goal is to serve as an empowerment for these students and help them become leaders of their communities.
ADELANTE TUTORIAL PROGRAM The Adelante Tutorial Program, created in 1997 by the Latino Business Student Association (LBSA), provides tutoring (with a concentration on mathematics, English and the sciences) mentoring and counseling services to the students of Bell Gardens High School in Southeast Los Angeles. LBSA strives to help underrepresented and disadvantaged students move forward in their education and into a career.
ADVANCING CAREERS IN ENGINEERING & SCIENCE Advancing Careers in Engineering & Science (ACES) was created in 1990 as the community outreach component of the Society of Latino Engineers & Scientists, the UCLA student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. ACES works with Latino K–12 students, introducing them to science and engineering.
AFRICAN EDUCATION PROJECT African Education Project (AEP) was founded in 1980 with the aim of instilling in the African youth a sense of pride, self-respect, self reliance and self-motivation in order to foster the development of the community. By teaching youth about themselves and increasing their knowledge about African history and culture, the basic academic learning process of our youth will be enhanced.
AMERICAN INDIAN RECRUITMENT The American Indian Recruitment (AIR) program was established by the American Indian Student Association (AISA). AIR provides tutoring and mentoring to each student who participates in the project. AIR works with youth at the Southern California Indian Center, the American Indian Clubhouse and TANF Gardena. AIR also has a community college component as well as a “Higher Education Awareness” component designed to serve the rural American Indian community. AIR sponsors a high school conference with a basketball tournament every year.
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ASIAN PACIFIC HEALTH CORPS The Asian Pacific Health Corps (APHC), a student volunteer organization, educates and offers free screenings to detect hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol in local Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities. Founded in 1980, APHC has been devoted to serving disadvantaged API communities that have minimal access to health care and limited financial resources. APHC’s student volunteers provide free bloodglucose, blood-pressure, and cholesterol screenings at health fairs, churches, temples, and shopping centers in the Los Angeles area.
BARRIO YOUTH ALTERNATIVES The Barrio Youth Alternative (BaYa) program is a student-propelled project designed to capture the interest of youth in South Los Angeles by exposing them to new educational opportunities. These youth are considered high-risk individuals who, for various reasons are or may be likely to become, involved in gang activities or drop out of school. BaYa works with local schools by offering tutorials and mentorships, recreational events, field trips, and cultural enrichment forums, teaching youth to empower themselves and giving them a sense of community responsibility.
BLACK HYPERTENSION PROJECT The Black Hypertension Project (BHP) has served the African American community of Los Angeles since 1978. We provide free blood-pressure screenings and disseminate pamphlets to educate our clients about their physical condition and to help them develop a suitable plan of action to maintain their health. Hypertension is considered the “silent killer” in the African American community, and the most effective way to combat it is through preventative education.
BLACK-LATINO AIDS PROJECT The Black-Latino AIDS (BLAIDS) Project began in 1991 as a collaborative effort between the Black Pre-Health Organization and Chicanos/Latinos for Community Medicine. We are committed to disseminating information regarding HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases to historically underrepresented and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. We target African American and Latino youth in the inner-city areas of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.
BRUINS IN FOCUS Bruins In Focus is committed to providing vision screenings and eye-related services to local underrepresented and underserved populations of all backgrounds and ethnicities in the Greater Los Angeles area. The people in the communities we serve often lack access to health care due to socioeconomic and language barriers. Because of these barriers and low awareness of the importance for preventative eye care, many within these communities often do not receive regular vision care. We aim to improve overall eye health and eliminate preventable eye blindness by spreading the importance of comprehensive eye exams at various health fairs in the community.
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BRUINS MOVIN' Bruins Movin' is a project designed to develop habits of physical activity and healthy living into the lifestyles of young students through the facilitation of short physical activity breaks; our project aims to empower UCLA student to develop active leadership and promote health and wellness in their communities. With the support from the UCLA Recreation, CPOSA, and the UCLA TIE-INS program, FITTED has developed Bruins Movin'. Bruins Movin' facilitates twenty minute fun, physical activities for all elementary students grades one through five) at Brockton and Nora Sterry Elementary Schools during their active lunch period. we also build relationships with these students in order to positively influence them into adopting healthy lifestyles. we equip volunteers of the project with the ability to be active role models on campus and within the community.
COMMUNITY LENS PROJECT The Community Lens Project (CLP) is composed of graduate students from the UCLA School of Film and Television who aspire to find relevance in their education and to retain themselves academically by providing free audio-visual services to UCLA undergraduate community service projects housed at CPO.
COMMUNITY PROGRAMS OFFICE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS The Community Programs Office Students Association (CPOSA) Community Service Projects were the original focus of the UCLA Department of Community Programs. In 1998, the CPO projects formed the CPOSA as a way for students to have a leadership voice in the direction of their collective efforts. In 2009, the CPOSA was delegated funding by the CPO department to expand the CPOSA’s reach. The CPOSA projects are student-initiated, student-run, and are done on a completely volunteer basis. CPOSA projects are administered by undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The CPOSA projects served as the model for the creation of the Student Retention Center (SRC) and the Student Initiated Access Center (SIAC). The CPOSA projects’ collective leadership efforts are funded by the CPO department through an advisory committee that recommends funding for retreats, programming and events.
DENTAL EDUCATION OUTREACH – DEO Dental Education Outreach (DEO) is a student-run organization that aims to engage young people of underserved communities, and to educate and empower them with the tools, skills, and knowledge to maintain proper oral hygiene. Dental caries is the most common chronic disease among young children and the main cause of tooth loss. Fortunately, dental caries is preventable by maintaining proper oral hygiene. With this in mind, DEO's mission is to spread this knowledge of proper oral hygiene to both children and adults. DEO visits various elementary schools in underserved, low socioeconomic status Los Angeles communities and gives dental presentations specifically tailored to young people. In addition, DEO participates in health fairs in low socioeconomic communities to provide patient centered education, oral cancer screening, and preventive dentistry by means of fluoride varnish and sealants. We believe that with education and getting children excited about maintaining their oral health, we can make a meaningful impression on our communities.
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DOT ORG DOT ORG exists to promote awareness and education about organ and tissue donation on campus and in surrounding Los Angeles communities. The program is the first organ- and tissue-donation campaign that exists at the college level in California. Students effectively communicate the importance of donor awareness to minority communities in Los Angeles.
FITTED FITTED is a program designed to raise and retain consciousness of holistic health by providing free fitness and educational services to underrepresented student leaders on the UCLA campus. We do this through the initiation of dialogue between diverse groups as well as collaboration and partnership to create a welcoming environment that promotes personal growth amongst these students and ultimately influencing them to permanently incorporate the themes of our program as a way of life.
GARDEN OF THE AMERICAS The Garden of the America’s Project started in 2011 as a learning garden for the American Indian from Los Angeles County and community members in North East Los Angeles in Mount Washington at the Southwest Museum. The idea for a native community garden started like many good ideas at dinner at a community member’s home. Many Indigenous people of the America are had and have agricultural and horticultural food systems. Our ultimate purpose is to 1) utilize the and revitalize the Southwest Museum existing ethnological botanical and vegetable garden by increasing the number of American Indian volunteers and knowledge of tribal life ways, and 2) increase access to growing and acquiring vegetables and fruits, 3) by allowing native families to control where there foods is grown and what they are eating. We want the Los Angeles American Indian and Alaska Native community to achieve food sovereignty by planting, growing, and cooking their own food.
HIGHER OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION Higher Opportunity Program for Education (HOPE) was established by the Vietnamese Student Union (VSU) to address the academic, cultural, and political needs of youth. HOPE uses a holistic educational experience to develop students into active community leaders. HOPE currently targets students at Westminster High School in Orange County and at Chinatown Branch Library in Los Angeles.
IMPROVING DREAMS EQUALITY, ACCESS AND SUCCESS Improving Dreams Equality, Access and Success (IDEAS) is designed to encourage, promote and further the education of undocumented high school students by providing academic and financial resources to low-income communities.
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IMPROVING MAINTAINING HOMELESS OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH MENTORSHIP AND EDUCATION Improving Maintaining Homeless Opportunities Through Mentorship and Education (IMHOME) organizes clothing drives at various locations on campus for the homeless in downtown's Skid Row. By contracting with agencies that work with the homeless, IMHOME can serve as messengers of news to help raise awareness about how to aid the growing problems of the hungry and the suffering.
INCARCERATED YOUTH TUTORIAL PROJECT The Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project (IYTP) provides wards of the California Youth Authority’s Ventura Youth Facility with tutoring and materials to prepare youth for college or technical careers upon their release. Project tutors have worked to prepare incarcerated youth to take and pass the GED exam and to improve their levels of reading and writing. The most important thing IYTP does is provide youth with hope that they can lead a better life and break the vicious cycle that all too often lands them back in incarceration.
INGLEWOOD CLINIC GROUP The Inglewood Clinic Group is a student-run organization dedicated to providing low cost dental services to underserved children. Although it is recommended that adults and children receive a dental exam and cleaning every 6 months to maintain their oral health, many low income families are simply unable to afford private dental care. This lack of access to low cost dental care is especially problematic in cities like Inglewood, where 18% of families fall below the federal poverty line. Our organization is dedicated to providing low cost, high quality comprehensive dental treatments to children from low income families. These services include: cleanings, fillings, crowns, sealants and exams, which are all provided by UCLA 3rd and 4th year dental students supervised by licensed volunteer dentists. Our goals include emphasizing preventative care and patient education during each visit so that these children can develop proper brushing and flossing habits, distributing oral hygiene products such as toothpaste, floss and toothbrushes so they will have the tools necessary to maintain proper oral hygiene and prevent future oral diseases, and enriching the educational experience of our dental student volunteers.
LATINAS GUIDING LATINAS Since 1987, Latinas Guiding Latinas (LGL) has inspired and encouraged young, at-risk Latinas to move forward and realize their dreams of higher education and beyond. LGL provides these girls and young women with workshops, a UCLA mentor, student and parent conferences, and educational and cultural field trips. The program works with girls in elementary school, junior high and high school, and its theme has always been: “Education is the Key, Unity is Our Strength.”
LATINO STUDENT HEALTH PROJECT The Latino Student Health Project was established in 1978 after an increase in the rate of debilitating diseases affecting underrepresented communities with limited access to health insurance and health care. The project’s mission is to serve medically underserved communities and promote health awareness while allowing undergraduate students to ameliorate some of these needs. Volunteers seek to educate clients as to what can be done to prevent various diseases by disseminating bilingual information and resources at various Los Angeles County locations. Volunteers also travel three times a year to our clinic in Tecate, Mexico, where they volunteer with medical doctors and professional staff. 169 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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M.E.N.T.E. Mentors Empowering and Nurturing Through Education (M.E.N.T.E.) at UCLA, is student-run organization founded in 2011, six months after it's mother branch, M.E.N.T.E. was founded in 2010 by Laura Romo and Felipe Hernandez. The organization’s primary goal is to increase the number of high school students applying and enrolling into four/ two year universities/colleges and/or Vocational Colleges. The organization works to achieve these goals by helping these students understand that to realize their potential they should pursue education beyond secondary schooling. M.E.N.T.E. at UCLA provides mentorship to high school students at Locke High School in South Central L.A. through weekly Friday site visits.
MECHA XINACHTLI “Xinachtli” means “the seed that germinates” in the indigenous language Nahuatl. MEChA de UCLA founded Xinachtli in 1998 to work toward empowering youth academically, culturally, and socially. The project serves the community at Venice, Santa Monica, Leuzinger, and Hawthorne High Schools, as well as the Pico Youth and Family Center in Santa Monica.
MENTORS FOR ACADEMIC & PEER SUPPORT Mentors for Academic & Peer Support (MAPS) is dedicated to improving the education of our youth at Jordan High School in Watts by providing students with peer advising and tutoring services along with workshops and field trips so students have the proper resources to pursue high school graduation and obtain higher education.
PACIFIC ISLANDER EDUCATION & RETENTION UCLA Pacific Islands’ Student Association (PISA) established Pacific Islander Education & Retention in 1997, a student run access program that provides resources and services to Carson High School and is involved in the Pacific Islander community served by the project.
PROJECTING MINDS In 1997, the Latin American Student Association began the Projecting Minds program with the purpose of helping youth stay out of trouble, excel in school and pursue higher education. The project provides a mentorship and tutorial program, as well as elementary school field trips to various sites, in the hope of helping these young students reach their academic potential and realize their desire of obtaining a higher education.
PROYECTO DE JORNALEROS Proyecto de Jornaleros (Day Laborer Project) provides guidance, assistance and resources to day laborers and their families. We work with the Downtown Community Job Center (DCJC) to provide ESL literacy classes, field trips, daily literature and training to laborers with the goal of exposing UCLA student volunteers to the realities of this often invisible community, as well as to assist the workers and their families.
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RAZA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT Since 1994, the Raza Youth Empowerment Project (RYEP) has been addressing the specific educational and organizational needs of Chicano/a and Latino/a high school students and their communities. In order to promote our emphasis on higher-education awareness and community empowerment, the project provides academic and cultural workshops and presentations for students. RYEP also helped establish the United Youth of Aztlan, a coalition of high school youths from the West Los Angeles area.
SAMAHANG PILIPINO ADVANCING COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT Samahang Pilipino Advancing Community Empowerment (SPACE) strives to engage student interest in education through mentorship, cultural awareness, leadership development and community involvement. We serve underrepresented students at Belmont and Marshall High Schools. Our ultimate goal is to empower youth to access higher education and to foster the desire to make positive contributions to their communities.
SOCIAL AWARENESS NETWORK FOR ACTIVISM THROUGH ART – SANAA SANAA is a multi-racial organization that aims at promoting the expression of social justice concerns through the use of art in a community-based space. SANAA also seeks to provide an opportunity for a network of individuals who care about the world, art, and activism to go into communities and help facilitate the development of children into socially conscious and concerned young adults. Along with this personal growth, SANAA aims at allowing individuals to understand and tackle the issues that plague communities not only in Los Angeles, but in the world in general. We service youth in Dominguez High School in Compton, California. Our motto is Art, Activism, and Academics. We are passionate about using art as a tool to help educate and express what these young adults see everyday in their society using various mediums of art to evoke that.
SOUTHEAST ASIAN CAMPUS LEARNING EDUCATION AND RETENTION SEA CLEAR challenges students to find relevancy in their education in order to help them develop and become empowered leaders. It is SEA CLEAR’s vision that these students later apply their newfound knowledge to the outside world to proactively contribute to their Southeast Asian community. The project helps to increase graduation and retention rates by developing students holistically through four components: counseling, mentorship, an internship program, and a wellness component.
STUDENT INITIATED ACCESS CENTER The Student Initiated Access Center (SIAC) was founded in the spring of 1998 as a means of funding studentinitiated/operated middle and high school outreach/mentorship programs. The SIAC provides an alternative to traditional university outreach efforts by admitting middle and high school students from low-performing academic backgrounds who exhibit potential for future success into their programs. SIAC projects accept all students who apply, and the program works at their different levels to empower them to take their academic and life goals into their own hands.
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The SIAC believes wholeheartedly that the process of middle/high school outreach and mentorship has to be grounded within the community where the youth live. The process of increasing access to higher education is a collective effort of students, parents and community members. The SIAC projects attempt to incorporate all stakeholders into their programs in order to build strong students, strong leaders who exhibit good values, and strong characters. Born out of student activism, the seven SIAC projects, which are administered by full-time professional project directors, are the only outreach program on campus that is directly accountable to students. The SIAC is funded by the Student Initiated Access Committee, a university committee with a majority student vote, as well as faculty and staff representation.
STUDENT RISK EDUCATION COMMITTEE The Student Risk Education Committee (SREC) aims to raise awareness concerning risk management and liability within the student body of UCLA. Providing various workshops such as the Youth Safety Training, Hypertension Screening Training, and Drivers Safety Training, the SREC works to protect volunteers from the inherent risks of working in the community. The SREC also appropriates money from the PLEDGE (Practicing Leadership and Empowerment to Develop Growth thru Education) fund to various projects looking to mitigate risk and liability in their events.
STUDENTS HEIGHTENING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE THROUGH EDUCATION Founded in 1996 by the African Student Union, Students Heightening Academic Performance Through Education (SHAPE) is a student empowerment program that uses education as a tool to teach students how to make better decisions about their academic, professional and personal future. We are located at Inglewood, Morningside, and Washington Preparatory High Schools, and Roger’s Park in Inglewood.
THE STUDENT RETENTION CENTER The Student Retention Center (SRC) at UCLA is a collective response by students from communities with a history at UCLA of low graduation rates. The SRC, established in 1988, was the first student-initiated, studentrun college retention project in the nation. The SRC has served as a model for other colleges and universities throughout America seeking to incorporate a student voice in student retention matters. Born out of student activism, the six SRC projects, which are administered by full-time professional project directors, are the only student service projects on campus that are directly accountable to students. The SRC is funded by the Campus Retention Committee (CRC), a university committee with a majority student vote, as well as faculty and staff representation. The SRC is comprised of six programs: • Academic Supports Program (ASP) • MEChA Calmécac • Retention of American Indians Now (RAIN) • South East Asian Campus Learning, Education, and Retention (SEA CLEAR) • Samahang Pilipino Education and Retention (SPEAR) • Writing Success Program (WSP) 172 2014
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The SRC engages students in a critical assessment of their educational needs and goals. The aim is to empower students with the tools necessary for their retention and personal growth. Through the creation of a home away from home, the SRC aims to create an environment that is nurturing and conducive to academic success.
UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEER PROGRAM The University Muslim Medical Association (UMMA) Volunteer Program Community Clinic is more than a place for people to go when they are ill. It is a community and a home for those who have nothing stable in their lives. One thing that has remained constant since the UMMA Clinic opened its doors to the community in 1996 is the need for volunteers. This is where the UMMA Volunteer Project comes in. The clinic has always been, and continues to be, community based and community funded.
WRITING SUCCESS PROGRAM The objective of the Writing Success Program (WSP) is to support the Student Retention Center’s mission of retaining and graduating conscious and empowered leaders. We accomplish this by giving students the tools to think and write with meaning and purpose, thus contributing to their holistic development as scholars. We provide one-to-one writing counseling and quarterly workshops to address the full range of students’ needs in relation to multiple types of assignments including research papers, resumes and personal statements. WSP’s main goals are to ease writing anxiety, increase students’ confidence and develop the analytical skills necessary for students to be effective, persuasive communicators. We pride ourselves on a methodology that fosters divergent thinking and centralizes the student within the writing process; this brings out the student’s voice and gives validity to their ideas. Furthermore, WSP strives to support students in developing a more compassionate and assured sense of self, essential ingredients for the proactive pursuit of their dreams.
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UCLA students and others put on their dancing shoes and rock away during the 26-hour annual UCLA Dance Marathon to raise money and awareness to help children with AIDS. The yearly event, which began in 2002, attracts students, celebrities and others and has raised nearly $3 million in more than a decade.
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Proceeds benefit four organizations: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the largest pediatric AIDS foundation across the globe, Project Kindle and One Heartland, two free summer camp programs that provide HIV-affected children with a summer camp experience, and the UCLA AIDS Institute, which is dedicated to the eradication of HIV and AIDS.
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INTERNSHIPS & INTERNATIONAL, UCLA CAREER CENTER UCLA STUDENT AFFAIRS 501 Westwood Plaza Box 951573 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Career Center’s Internships & International service offers advice and resources for a wide range of “experiential learning” programs in the U.S. and abroad. Opportunities include internships, fellowships, entrylevel training programs, research positions, and volunteer assignments. The center also offers a summer internship program for Bruins eager to work in Washington, D.C. Students who are researching interests such as business, public service, media, education, medicine, and international careers can begin exploring options with a visit to The Zone, a dedicated section of the UCLA Career Lab featuring hundreds of leads for popular fields.
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CONTACT Gabriel Gomez Phone: 310-267-9220 Fax: 310-267-3602 gagomez@mednet.ucla.edu
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Los Angeles, CA 90095 The UCLA Medical Center Nutrition Department prepares and packages food for the Meals on Wheels program of West Los Angeles. This program provides nourishing food at a nominal cost to the disabled, aged, and chronically or temporarily ill, and assures a friendly interest and a helping hand so that people can remain self-sufficient in their own homes.
MEDICAL STUDENTS PROGRAMS DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 757 Westwood Plaza Box 951720 Los Angeles, CA 90095 The following programs give medical students the opportunity to get involved with a variety of activities impacting the health of patients throughout the Los Angeles region.
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P R O J E C T S MOBILE CLINIC PROJECT The Mobile Clinic Project (MCP) at UCLA aims to improve the health and quality of life of the homeless and other vulnerable populations in the greater Los Angeles area through direct medical care, health promotion and disease prevention activities, legal advocacy and referrals to health and social services. Medical students are involved with almost all aspects of MCP. First-year students are invited to participate by providing direct medical care under the supervision of an attending physician. Medical students learn valuable history taking, physical examination, and presentation skills. MCP also offers an avenue for students to provide a direct service to the community while learning about the unique medical, social, and legal challenges that face the homeless population everyday. A group of second-year medical students is selected by the previous coordinators to act as part of the leadership of MCP. Along with student coordinators from the School of Public Health, School of Law, and Undergraduate campuses and advisement/guidance from faculty, medical student coordinators are responsible for the logistics, planning, finances, and administration of the four MCP sites (West Hollywood, OPCC in Santa Monica, Step Up on Second in Santa Monica, and Common Ground in Santa Monica). Coordinators gain invaluable leadership experience during their tenure, including organization, grant writing, financial planning, intramural communication, and short- and long-term planning.
OPERATION MEND MEDICAL STUDENT ORGANIZATION Operation Mend Medical Student Organization (OMMSO) is a unique partnership between UCLA Health System, Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, and the VA Healthcare System. It was established in 2007 to help treat U.S. military personnel wounded during service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its vision is to provide the absolute best in patient care by collaborating with military medicine to jointly provide servicemen and servicewomen with the best technology and medicine available by both the private and public sector. Operation Mend values treating every referred patient with honor, compassion, and exemplary service while recognizing that every patient is unique and has different needs and challenges. The Operation Mend Student Group (OMSG) will provide a support system of students providing education to the community, leadership opportunities for students, service, and awareness of the project. Through speakers, workshops, and volunteering, our mission is to support the larger Operation Mend organization. Students will gain an understanding of the mission of the project, and be able to give back to these wounded warriors and their families in their own way. Through community outreach, students will be able to foster support in the community for UCLA’s project. OMCG hopes to support the broader UCLA Operation Mend organization and provide medical students a means of donating their time supporting the cause and learning more about the services provided.
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Our Goals: 1. Awareness: Invite relevant physicians, and service members (active duty and veterans) to share their experiences with the Operation Mend program for the school and the larger community to build awareness. The group would provide a place to explain the services the doctors provide showing how medical students can incorporate service into their career planning, and showing how the community can support Operation Mend. 2. Leadership: Foster a community of medical students that provides opportunities for leadership, exploring the medical fields involved, and doing service for Operation Mend. 3. Service: Service is the heart of this group to assist the Operation Mend organization. (1) Students will reach out in the community to promote local business support with services such as Veterans Discounts, etc. (2) Provide service to the service members and their families with activities such as hospital and home visits and making their stays more comfortable. (3) Provide aid and manpower for the larger Operation Mend activities.
OPERATION SALVATION The Salvation Army was founded in 1865 with the goal of bringing spiritual guidance to London's less fortunate citizens. Since that time, the Salvation Army has expanded to provide support to the impoverished masses in many other ways, including education, vocational training, and even housing. The Salvation Army has established housing facilities around the globe, providing long-term housing for destitute individuals and families as the necessary resources to get these families living independently. The Salvation Army housing facility in Westwood is unique in both the resident population and the facility arrangement. At any given time, there are around 150 permanent residents. Of these residents, on average nearly two-thirds are children, either living with their families or coming from foster care. Statistically, these children are at an increased risk for poor health conditions including diet, hygiene, and disease as well as being at more risk for criminal activity and substance abuse. Operation Salvation is a student-run organization with a commitment to improve the health education of children living in the Westwood Salvation Army housing facility. The primary focus of Operation Salvation is to establish monthly visits to this facility to provide relatable, fun, and educational experiences in order to promote an understanding of health and good health habits to the children of this community. Members of the group will collaborate with each other and faculty to engineer relevant, interesting, and interactive lessons for children of varying ages. Teaching these children lessons such as the importance of exercise, eating healthy, and hygiene from an early age is the first step in the prevention of serious health complications later. Additionally, as the Westwood housing facility is a long-term residence, allowing housing for up to two years to each family, Operation Salvation and its members have the unique ability to see the same people regularly and to become stable role models to the children. This arrangement not only allows us to introduce the concepts of health and healthy living, but also to reinforce them in the community.
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PARTNERSHIP FOR PROGRESS Partnership for Progress (P4P) has afforded medical students the opportunity to become mentors to high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds. P4P’s goal is to provide guidance and direction for underserved and underrepresented youths from King/Drew Medical Magnet High School interested in pursuing a career in the medical field. This project provides mentors as role models to influence and encourage adolescents to strive towards their future endeavors. Mentors will educate youths about the process of achieving their goals and help them prepare to overcome potential obstacles. It also helps to increase the rate in which high school students graduate and enroll into four-year universities. P4P believes in increasing not only high school graduation rates but also increasing diversity at all levels of education. Students are encouraged to volunteer for various community service events including Project Santa Claus. P4P, which was started through Drew/UCLA allows other UCLA medical students that are not apart of the Drew/UCLA to interact and participate in community service mentor/mentee events in the Compton area.
RECOVERING EQUIPMENT FOR NATIONS EVERYWHERE The mission of Recovering Equipment for Nations Everywhere (RENEW) is to reduce waste and donate equipment to developing countries visited by UCLA medical students and faculty. RENEW is a collaboration of medical students and nursing staff at UCLA. Salpy Akaragian, an international health nurse, chairs the monthly RENEW meetings and several other UCLA nurses are members of RENEW. All medical students are welcome to join RENEW and facilitate the collection of supplies at seven locations in the hospital (ER, OR, 3E Nurse's Station, 3E PICU, 3W PICU, 4W Coronary Care Unit, and 7W ICU). Medical students are also in charge of sorting the supplies in a storage room located in the Rehab building, maintaining an inventory of available supplies, and distributing supplies to students/faculty traveling abroad. RENEW is an organization that puts UCLA's goal of promoting international health into action. The School of Medicine at UCLA emphasizes social responsibility and humanistic service to others, and RENEW is an organization that embodies these principles. It connects the School of Medicine with the UCLA Medical Center as well as developing countries throughout the world.
STUDENT RUN HOMELESS CL INIC The Student Run Homeless Clinics (SRHC) mission is to provide respectful, compassionate, and high quality healthcare services to homeless adults, children, and families living in the greater Los Angeles area. These disadvantaged individuals benefit by receiving free medical care from UCLA medical students. The founders and participants in the organization are dedicated to the health of the community and reach out to provide free health services to homeless adults, children, and families. We are one of the oldest student-run free clinics in the country and are members of the recently formed Society of Student Run Free Clinics.
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SRHC currently organizes two clinics, each serving a distinct patient population. The clinics run on Saturday mornings and Monday/Thursday evenings. Students will gain first hand experience in community-based clinical care where students encounter a variety of acute and chronic diseases at each clinic. Clinics run all year round, rain or shine. Students may also receive course credit towards their medical degree. By volunteering with SRHC, students will have the opportunity to improve their clinical skills with the guidance of world class UCLA physicians, manage a variety of health issues in the homeless population, and learn about important issues regarding underserved healthcare from our lunchtime lecture series.
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Nancy Reifel CONTACT Nancy Reifel Phone: 310-825-4320 Fax: 310-206-2688 nreifel@dentistry.ucla.edu
STUDENT INITIATED ACTIVITIES SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY 10833 Le Conte Ave. CHS Box 951668 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Community service is a required part of the school curriculum. In addition to volunteering at community health fairs and working at the Wilson-Jennings-Bloomfield UCLA Venice Dental Center, the students demonstrate their leadership skills by initiating their own community service activities. Each year, dental students provide free oral health education and basic services to more than 1,000 adults and children.
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STUDENT ROTATION TO THE CHILDREN'S DENTAL CENTER SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY 10833 Le Conte Ave. Los Angeles CA 90095-1668 The school has an Affiliation Agreement with The Children’s Dental Center of Greater Los Angeles, where dental students rotate to provide oral health services to pediatric patients under the supervision of school faculty. This facility serves as a comprehensive community resource for disadvantaged families without access to dental care for their children. Patients pay a per-visit charge as opposed to charges for specific treatments. UCLA’s dental students and supervising faculty conduct more than 1,200 patient visits annually at this community clinic.
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UniCamp, one of UCLA’s oldest service programs (established in 1934), provides a recreational and educational summer wilderness-camp experience in the mountains for underprivileged children. It also provides community-service and leadership development for UCLA students. Students serve as camp counselors and are responsible for most aspects of the UniCamp experience.
W.S. “Wally” Wirick Phone: 310-208-8252 Fax: 310-824-1949 wwirick@unicamp.org http://www.unicamp.org
UniCamp operates as an independently funded nonprofit organization linking the university with the community. Each year, UniCamp inspires nearly 1,000 children from low-income families to envision brighter futures by sending them, along with 450+ student volunteers, to its residential outdoor summer camp.
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The UCLA Volunteer Center’s mission is to inspire the more than 400,000 members of the extended UCLA family, as well as the community at large, to create social change through lifelong participation in volunteer programs and civic engagement.
Rachel Corell Phone: 310-983-3525 Fax: 310-983-3528 volunteer@ucla.edu
The UCLA Volunteer Center coordinates service activities on campus and throughout greater Los Angeles to
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inspire members of the extended UCLA family to give of their time and talent. At UCLA, there are many ways to give back to the community. Through the Volunteer Center, students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members can participate in ongoing and annual service opportunities, suggest volunteer site locations, and lead service projects. The Volunteer Center also maintains an online listing of campus-wide service groups, and a volunteer database of community service opportunities. The Center was launched by its first project: UCLA Volunteer Day on September 22, 2009, which has become the nation’s largest service project for new university students. A project that began with 4,000 participants with eight service projects has grown to involve more than 8,000 UCLA community members at sites that reach every major community in the city. The Volunteer Center has expanded to organize more than seven other unique annual programs and events that involve the greater Bruin community in civic engagement. And though its website and use of social media, the Center also serves as a hub for community planning material, how-to guides, recognition of community leadership, opportunities for volunteers to share their experience and connect with others, and access to an interactive database and calendar of volunteer opportunities in Los Angeles. The Volunteer Center also serves as a model for the planning, design, implementation, and management of large-scale community projects that can be replicated by other universities, companies, and organizations.
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P R O J E C T S ALUMNI SCHOLARS: VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM The UCLA Alumni Association teams up with the Volunteer Center to host a number of special service projects led by Alumni Scholars. The Alumni Scholars Club’s unique Volunteer Leadership Program gives Scholars the opportunity to work directly with the Center by planning and leading their own community service projects in the Los Angeles community. Project Leaders maintain the important relationships between the university and their designated community partners while gaining valuable leadership and professional skills. In the spring, a capstone ceremony culminates the program and the Scholars present their projects in front of a room of distinguished social entrepreneurs, scholarship donors, and career advisors.
FALL HARVEST FEAST This annual turkey dinner provides a warm meal as well as food and supplies to take away during the long weekend for up to 100 needy UCLA students and their families. This event has been created and produced through volunteer time of staff and students of UCLA, and the food, venue, centerpieces, music, and other supplies are donated through various campus departments, student organizations, and volunteers.
HUNGER HOTSPOTS Food on a budget, funds for a cause. Student organization fundraisers allow Bruins to buy great food for less while supporting a cause. From cupcakes, to sandwiches, to boba, a weekly listing of dates, times, and locations of these great opportunities to eat, save money, and support student group efforts throughout campus are listed on the Center’s website and mobile platform.
MONGELLI AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT The Mongelli Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement (formerly the Bruin Heroes Award) recognizes innovative and inspiring projects organized by UCLA organizations. Every day, thousands of students participate in service projects around Los Angeles. As a public institution, UCLA is dedicated to service and values the hard work of these Bruins and the passion motivating their endeavors. The goal of this award is to shine a light on these efforts. The Mongelli Award is presented by the Volunteer Center Fellows, and award recipients are selected from among a pool of nominations compiled by a group of chief campus advisors. Winners of the award receive recognition and support from the Volunteer Center as well as a monetary award.
NON-PROFIT NETWORKING NIGHT Non-profit Networking Night connects UCLA students to public service professionals who are currently recruiting for open internships and jobs in the non-profit sector. Hosted by the Volunteer Center, USAC Community Service Commission, Career Center, and Office of Residential Life (ORL), the evening features speed networking activities and the opportunity to sit down with professionals and other UCLA students.
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ONE BUS, ONE CAUSE Using the momentum and enthusiasm for civic engagement that arises from Volunteer Day, the Center sends a bus filled with volunteers into the community in order to address specific needs in that area. Through partnerships with other non-profits and outside organizations, this program addresses a different cause and organization with each visit to expose Bruins to a sampling platter of volunteer opportunities to pique volunteers’ interest in programs they could work with on an ongoing basis.
OPERATION GRATITUDE United States military service members in hostile regions around the world receive more than 6,000 handwritten letters and care packages from UCLA each year in partnership with Operation Gratitude, a volunteerrun non-profit group based in Van Nuys. For some soldiers, this is the only contact they have with home, and the partnership strives to demonstrate recognition of, and appreciation for, military members’ service and sacrifice. The Center works year-round with campus departments and organizations to introduce students to the program. Operation Gratitude has sent over 600,000 care packages since 2003, and UCLA is the first largescale university the organization has paired with to increase these efforts.
PROJECT SPELL Project SPELL, Students for Progress in Employee Language Learning, is a support service for UCLA employees who are non-native English speakers. This program matches UCLA employee learners with student volunteer tutors to accomplish English language learning goals as expressed by the learners. Volunteer tutors deliver personalized lessons to one UCLA employee, twice a week throughout the academic quarter, and receive training sessions, ample teaching resources, and a flourishing peer network. From this experience, tutors develop critical teaching and communication skills while building a mutually beneficial relationship with a vital member of the UCLA community.
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING INTERNSHIP PROGRAM The UCLA Volunteer Center offers students an opportunity to be creative and experiment with technology and social media in promoting civic engagement. Interns assist expansion in the web space and reach out to students on campus, developing skills in areas such as communication, technology, group collaboration, and community outreach. Enthusiastic students with interests in social media, video, photography, graphic design, and/or journalism (blogging) are organized into teams and creatively combine their interests with their passion for service. Working with Volunteer Center staff and guest speakers from the non-profit community, students learn about the various aspects of non-profit outreach while supporting their University.
THREE PILLARS, ONE UNIVERSITY The UCLA Volunteer Center, in partnership with the Circle of Friends chapter at UCLA, is taking a novel approach in fulfilling the university’s pillars of education, research, and service while exposing students with special needs to cutting edge research. The event provides students with special needs (namely Autism, Down’s Syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy) from the Pathway at UCLA Extension program the chance to attend a professor research symposium and learn about some of the most acclaimed research taking place at UCLA in a variety of fields.
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UCLA & LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK UCLA External Affairs has adopted the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank to show the staff commitment to service in the Los Angeles community. Each month, a different department of External Affairs visits the downtown food bank to sort, inspect, and clean food for distribution, as well as assemble food packages that go to children, senior citizens, and women with infants across Los Angeles County.
UCLA FOOD DRIVE The UCLA Food Drive, hosted by UCLA Transportation, collects goods and funds for both the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the UCLA Food Closet, a UCLA Community Programs Office program that provides struggling students a helping hand. In previous years, over 42,000 pounds of food donations have been collected to benefit individuals and families in need. The Center helps to host bins and sort collections all around campus, as well as promote the collection as a resource to UCLA community members.
VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION WEEK UCLA leads the nation in volunteering, and each year Bruins contribute to hundreds of thousands of hours of community service. Volunteer Appreciation Week is an extension of a national campaign to celebrate the people and organizations participating in community service across America. During this week, the UCLA Volunteer Center recognizes the service efforts of volunteers and campus groups that make a difference in communities across Greater Los Angeles.
VOLUNTEER CENTER FELLOWS To continue the strong ties between the Center and the student population, the Volunteer Center Fellows program creates opportunities for student leadership in the planning and management of civic engagement projects. Each spring, a new group of students are chosen to serve for thirteen months to work with the Center to plan the year’s agenda and attend regular meetings with staff and advisors. Fellows come from a variety of community and leadership perspectives at UCLA and in the Los Angeles community. The Fellows serve as an advisory board that works with the Center to increase the accessibility of community service and civic engagement opportunities by creating and promoting resources, support systems, and projects for both campus service organizations and students. VOLUNTEER DAY UCLA Volunteer Day is a cornerstone of the UCLA experience. It is the nation’s largest community participation event for new students, and occurs on the Tuesday of True Bruin Welcome Week in September. Before students attend their first class, first year freshmen and transfer students join together with continuing undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and community members to visit more than 50 sites across greater Los Angeles. Reaching out to every city council district, volunteers give service at K-12 schools, food banks, parks, shelters, veterans’ facilities, and neighborhood centers. Participants learn important skills including leadership, task coordination, volunteer recruitment and retention, and event planning. Over 7,000 Bruins participate each year, which creates an immediate impact on both the participant and site, and the event has been featured in print and internet news media both locally and nationally.
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The Community Service Commission provides UCLA students the opportunity to develop social understanding and leadership through community service projects that reach out and serve surrounding communities in the hopes of improving their overall quality of life.
PROJECTS AMIGOS DE UCLA Amigos de UCLA is an after-school enrichment program in which volunteers tutor and mentor elementary school children who are often subject to unique academic challenges as a result of their socioeconomic status. It is the aim of Amigos de UCLA to inspire them to excel in an educational system that can, unfortunately, overlook them. Amigos goes to Pio Pico Spanish School on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., the second week through the ninth week of each quarter. The first hour on site focuses on one-on-one homework assistance and improving fundamental math, reading and writing skills. The second hour engages students in an art or science activity, allowing them to use their creativity, curiosity and cultural awareness skills. We provide snacks and juice for the students halfway through the sessions to re-energize them and keep them going until dinnertime. We hold quarterly field trips that function as motivation for good behavior and provide interactive education outside the classroom. Our target population is the 2nd to 5th grade elementary school students attending Pio Pico Spanish School. Most students belong to working families of low socioeconomic status who are also English learners. The students live in the neighboring community near and around the school. The area is known as the Arlington Heights community of Los Angeles, which is part of the larger Mid-Wilshire area. It is an urban area with mostly working families. Small businesses are located around the community area (i.e. shops and small markets), but it consists mostly of residential housing.
ASIAN AMERICAN TUTORIAL PROGRAM The mission of the AATP is to inspire Los Angeles Chinatown's immigrant youth through tutoring and mentoring services, and to help advocate for their attainment of a higher education by providing them assistance in overcoming the language, cultural and socioeconomic barriers they face.
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We tutor students from first through sixth grades in math and English and try to help them as much as possible so that they can succeed in the classroom. In addition, the tutors spend time doing fun activities with the students in order to build relationships and serve as mentors. We work directly with the students who attend Castelar Elementary School and live in the Chinatown community. For information, please email our office at aatpucla@gmail.com.
BEST BUDDIES Best Buddies (BB) at UCLA is a community service organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals with intellectual disabilities through one-on-one friendships. Since 1990, our chapter has touched the lives of hundreds of students, community members and people with disabilities. Each year, approximately 50 student applicants are selected and paired in one-on-one friendships with buddies (i.e., individuals with disabilities). These friendships are monitored by BB student staff, and each friendship pair is expected to make weekly telephone contact and participate in twice-monthly individual outings (the nature of which is up to the buddy pair). BB at UCLA sponsors approximately two chapter events per quarter, which all members are required to attend.
BRUIN PARTNERS Bruin Partners (BP) is a one-on-one tutoring and mentoring program that serves the students at Marina del Rey Middle School in Mar Vista/Culver City. We pair a UCLA volunteer with a 6th-grader in hopes that they will build a strong relationship that will continue throughout the mentee's middle school career. Site visits entail one hour of tutoring (e.g. homework help and supplemental learning activities) in order to help the student with anything he or she is struggling with academically, and one hour of a planned activity. These activities include sports, arts and crafts, group discussions, games and science experiments in order to help facilitate communication between the mentee/mentor pairs and foster a more interpersonal relationship. Once a quarter, BP takes the kids on a field trip to further cultivate a friendship between mentors and mentees. In the past, we've gone to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, California Science Center, Olvera Street, the L.A. Zoo and our annual spring field trip to the beach.
BRUINHOPE The grassroots of this project have been sprouted with the desire to see lasting change in communities through acknowledging the origin of privilege by way of cultural education. We are committed to being a sensitively informed body, tightly knit around the desire to see hope delivered and prosper among the needy. In other words, we seek to not only serve underprivileged children such as the orphans in Hogar-Infantil, Tijuana, Mexico, but to also learn in order to serve compassionately. Come serve and learn with us! To get involved, please email our office at bruin_hope @yahoo.com.
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CASA HEIWA AND ANGELINA MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Casa Heiwa and Angelina Mentorship Program's (CHAMPs) objective lies in mentoring the youth residing in the Angelina and Casa Heiwa apartment complexes in the Echo Park and Little Tokyo communities of Los Angeles. CHAMPs provides academic and social support for children at their residence and within their community. At CHAMPs, we acknowledge the importance of bringing unity among our children and providing a safe environment in which to learn and grow. Each Saturday, we do academic tutoring, arts and crafts, and outdoor recreation and have quarterly field trips to places throughout Los Angeles. To get involved, please email our office at casah@ucla.edu.
GLENDALE LEARNING PROGRAM “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – GLP Motto. The main purpose of the Glendale Learning Program (GLP) is to provide primarily low-income, Glendale area middle students who are falling behind academically with an opportunity to catch up on their educational basics, while equipping them with the confidence and learning skills necessary to be better learners in the future. Our goal is to make the students who receive this service leave with a renewed sense of confidence in their ability to learn and master new lessons presented to them and to succeed throughout their academic careers. We work individually with students, using prepared activities and exercises to meet their specific needs. During this time, we look to teach the learning skills necessary to succeed in the future. We are more than just tutors to these students: We are mentors, big brothers or sisters and, most importantly, friends. GLP takes place at Glendale High School in Glendale every Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Transportation and materials are provided. To learn more about our program, please contact us via email at GlendaleLearningProgram@hotmail.com.
HUNGER PROJECT Founded in 1987, the Hunger Project is dedicated to fighting poverty by combining direct service, advocacy and education. Volunteers deliver food, serve meals, provide job assistance and teach life skills classes. Our ultimate goal is to provide services to homeless and low-income individuals to help meet their immediate and long-term needs. The Hunger Project at UCLA has always implemented programs to alleviate some of the problems of homelessness in Los Angeles. We do this by informing and educating UCLA students and leading by example through volunteering programs. At the same time, we encourage students to become active in the community by offering volunteer programs that are accessible to anyone in the UCLA community. The two active programs that have persisted throughout the history of the Hunger Project at UCLA are the food salvage program and the heath clinic program.
KIDS KORNER Kids Korner is a community service group that tutors and mentors at-risk youth in two North Hollywood apartment complexes. Our main goal is to encourage the children we work with to stay in school and hopefully to pursue a college education. In addition, we aim to help them develop their social and intellectual skills to broaden their prospects for the future. 185 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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PILIPINO RECRUITMENT AND ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM The Pilipino Recruitment and Enrichment Program (PREP) was developed as a means to empower and educate the youth of the Pilipino community. Over the years, the organization has grown to serve the needs of all underprivileged youth in the Los Angeles area. Our main goals are to encourage students to pursue higher education, promote community consciousness, increase cultural awareness and foster leadership skills. In order to achieve these goals, as well as engage students and staff in active participation, we focus on artistic activities to motivate and inspire. While education usually involves absorbing and retaining information, art acts as a counterbalance, a means to internalize such information, allowing creativity to generate revolutionary ideas. The expression of art is inherent and influenced by our individual identities and cultures. Combining education and art creates a connection between what we know of ourselves in relation to the outside world of knowledge. With an unrestrained power to advocate the freedom of expression, art enhances academic education and the education and empowerment of self. Underprivileged students receive less access to forms of artistic expression, and PREP will act as a tool to promote the powerful aspects of expression as a supplement to our four main goals. Together, as we explore the elements of music, photography, paint, film and more, we hope to develop stronger youth who are eager and prepared to further their education. To get involved, please email us at prep@ucla.edu.
PILIPINOS FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH Pilipinos for Community Health (PCH) is a diverse student group that seeks to address the health disparities of socioeconomically underprivileged minority groups, specifically the Pilipino population. In joining PCH, members get a chance to be trained and certified by the American Red Cross to take blood pressure and BMI screenings, and then can go out to our biweekly sites in front of supermarkets to take blood pressure and BMIs of various recipients. PCH also carries out many big projects, such as putting on our annual Our Lady of Peace Church Health Fair, which serves more than 300 Pilipino, Latino and Vietnamese recipients in one day. While serving locally, PCH also believes in effecting change globally, and so we hold a biennial Medical Outreach Banquet to raise funds to aid poor clinics in the Philippines. Members who are interested in the health field also have the chance to correspond one-on-one with medical professionals at our quarterly Pre-Health Panel dinners, as well as receive a medical student mentor who can guide the students throughout their undergraduate careers. To get involved, please email us at pch@ucla.edu. Project Bruins Reforming Incarceration Through Education Through mentoring and tutoring, Project Bruins Reforming Incarceration Through Education (BRITE) is dedicated to breaking the cycle that incarcerated youth tend to fall into. Our goal is to reduce recidivism by helping our students gain the confidence and motivation they need to become conscious individuals and productive members of society and positive role models in their communities. Project BRITE provides tutorial services to incarcerated youths and aims to reach young offenders at an age when they still have a chance to turn their lives around. Through weekly visits, tutors provide motivation and friendship to these youths. In addition, tutors also provide academic support necessary for the progression of the tutee's education.
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PROJECT LITERACY Established in 1990 by UCLA students, Project Literacy (PL) has been operating for 19 years, dedicated to providing services to multiple areas in L.A. that are shown to have low literacy rates. Since the founding of PL, our program has grown to serve four different socioeconomically disadvantaged areas of Los Angeles. These neighborhoods are plagued with gang violence, a lack of after-school programs and a scarcity of positive role models in their communities. PL's purpose is, foremost, to improve literacy in these areas through one-on-one tutoring and, second, to provide mentors for the children and adults we serve. PL has two primary components: The larger of the two components is dedicated to children aged 5 through 18. We sponsor six total visits to our children’s sites per week, which are located at the Junipero Serra Public Library in Vernon, the Alma Reeves Woods Public Library in Watts and the Mar Vista Gardens Community Center in Culver City. The second component of PL is the Program for Adult Literacy (PAL), which conducts two site visits per week at the Baldwin Hills Public Library. Adult service recipients range from parents who wish to read to their kids and help them with their homework to immigrants trying to pass their citizenship test.
PROJECT MAC Project MAC (PM) tutors at-risk children in the greater Los Angeles Area at our current site, Free Arts. We also aim to continually educate the UCLA community and the Los Angeles community about child abuse and neglect. PM seeks to educate society about the causes and effects of child abuse and how to combat it. It is only through continual advocacy and education to others that this terrible social ill can be remedied. PM’s artsand-crafts component provides a safe and creative outlet for children to express their feelings. The Free Arts site will be incorporating expressive art activities like painting, drawing, music, drama, writing and dance.
PROJECT WORKING FOR IMMIGRANT LITERACY DEVELOPMENT Working for Immigrant Literacy Development (W.I.L.D), serves students from the ages of 8 to 14 years old in the Monterey Park/Rosemead area as a free English tutorial and mentorship program. Our main focus is to reinforce reading, writing and speech in the English language. Many of the students whom we tutor have parents who immigrated to America, so they may not have the English background that is needed for higherlevel education. Through weekly tutorial sessions, W.I.L.D provides students with the foundation they need and may not receive at home. Every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., our tutors go to Temple Intermediate, an intermediate school located in Rosemead. Our program splits the students into three groups: beginning, intermediate and advanced, according to their English proficiency level. For each group, the students develop English reading, speaking and writing skills through lessons and worksheets designed for and tailored to their English level by the tutors themselves. In addition to our English tutorial program, our tutors also serve as positive role models for our students, helping them achieve academic success and increase self-esteem.
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SPECIAL OLYMPICS Established in 1979, UCLA Special Olympics continues to be one of the few student-run Special Olympics programs in the country. This program represents a unique opportunity for a wide range of neglected and underserved communities to learn sports in a healthy and fun environment. Special Olympics serves roughly 45 developmentally disabled individuals on its practice roster, most of whom come from impoverished communities in South Los Angeles and are primarily from minority,Latino and African American populations. For UCLA students, Special Olympics widens their perspective on the world, encouraging positive interaction with those who have developmental disabilities.
VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Started in 1994 with the goal of promoting and preserving Vietnamese language and culture, Vietnamese Language and Culture (VNLC) now has many projects that not only serve the Vietnamese community, but also the non-Vietnamese community. Friday Tutorial, which is the foundation of VNLC, caters to college students at UCLA who need tutoring in Vietnamese language at different levels. Saturday Tutorial offers Vietnamese lessons to youths in the San Fernando Valley. Rendering Encouragement in Academic Commitment for Higher Education (REACHE) provides tutoring in academic subjects and SAT I preparation to primarily nonVietnamese high school students.
VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program trains student volunteers to fill out basic federal and California state income tax forms for low-income individuals who make less than $44,000 a year. This population includes most undergraduate and graduate students at UCLA, who make up a big portion of VITA's clientele, as well as low-income individuals from the Los Angeles Westside area. Each year, VITA provides services to more than 250 individuals both on campus in Ackerman Union, and in the community, such as in Santa Monica, Chinatown, and Mar Vista, from February to April 15. We provide all the necessary training to student volunteers over the fall and winter quarters in both electronic- and paper-filing methods. The VITA program teaches volunteers practical skills in filing their own taxes while getting experience in technical client service. This provides not only valuable practical and possibly professional experiences for volunteers, but also helps out the UCLA and Los Angeles community on a very important aspect of living in the U.S.—filing income taxes.
WATTS TUTORIAL PROGRAM The Watts Tutorial Program (WTP) is a tutoring program committed to educating and serving the underprivileged and under-represented children of the Watts and William Mead public housing communities in Los Angeles. The children from these communities range in age from 5 to 12 years old. They all attend low -performing, underachieving schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In addition, gang violence, drug trafficking and familial instability are prominent issues plaguing their communities. WTP aims to provide the guidance, support, and motivation needed to break free from their broken down communities and grow to be successful individuals.
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WTP meets every Wednesday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the UCLA campus. The children are bused to UCLA every week to receive one-on-one tutoring with their own personal tutor. Every UCLA student is paired off for an entire year with his or her own tutee. In doing so, the tutor is personally able to target and improve upon the child’s weaknesses in the subjects of math, reading, and writing. There is also a fun activity portion of the night in which the children participate in arts and crafts sessions and scavenger hunts across the campus, and listen to speakers who inspire and motivate them to achieve higher education. You can also feel like a kid again with our quarterly field trips to the LA Zoo, the Natural History Museum, roller skating locations, Santa Monica Beach and ice skating; you name it, we will be there! Additionally, the tutees become tutors for a day when they educate their tutors about their communities when we visit the Watts and William Mead projects on our annual Watts Service Day. WTP strives to deter the gang violence, poverty and illiteracy encompassing the communities by focusing our efforts on the children. They hold the power to reshape their communities and their own lives. WTP endlessly works to help these great children realize the power they hold within their minds. Through great tutoring and motivational support, WTP will help these children become successful individuals.
WOMEN AND YOUTH SUPPORTING EACH OTHER The Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (WYSE) mission is to provide girls with the information, resources and support necessary to make informed decisions about relationships, sexuality and their futures, and to create community change. WYSE is a volunteer and college-based national afterschool program in which college women provide education and mentoring to middle and high school girls (predominately of color) in low-income communities. Through education and mentoring, girls develop self-esteem and leadership skills, discuss a variety of topics affecting their lives, receive comprehensive sexuality education, become aware of future options and are encouraged to create community change.
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Academic Outreach Resource Center ...............................................................................................117 Academic Preparation & Educational Partnership Programs.................................................................13 Adopt-A-School Program ..................................................................................................................17 Alumni Outreach and Engagement ..................................................................................................163 Alumni Scholars Club......................................................................................................................163 American Indian Studies Center .........................................................................................................65 Applied Management Research Program..............................................................................................5 Artsbridge / School of Theater, Film & Television...............................................................................135 Asian American Studies Center..........................................................................................................66 Asian Pacific Islander Law Student Association..................................................................................118 Black Male Institute ...........................................................................................................................18 BruinCorps.......................................................................................................................................19 California Nanosystems Institute High School Nanoscience Program, A K-12 Outreach Program............20 Care Harbor Clinic Health Clinic........................................................................................................77 Center for American Indian & Indigenous Research and Education .......................................................21 Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine ....................................................................................77 Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research.............................................................................77 Center for Civil Society....................................................................................................................143 Center for Community College Partnerships ........................................................................................21 Center for Community Learning .........................................................................................................22 Center for Excellence in Engineering & Diversity..................................................................................24 Center for Health Policy Research.......................................................................................................78 Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities.....................................................................79 Center for Improving Child Care Quality ............................................................................................24 Center for Labor Research & Education ..............................................................................................26 Center for Occupational & Environmental Health ................................................................................80 Center for Public Health & Disasters ...................................................................................................80 Center for Teaching Statistics .............................................................................................................26 Center for the Advancement of Gerontological Nursing Science ...........................................................81 Center for the Study of Evaluation/National Center for Research on Evaluation, ...................................27 Standards, and Student Testing Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture ...............................................................................82 Center for Vulnerable Populations Research .......................................................................................28 Center X ..........................................................................................................................................29 Challenge for Charity......................................................................................................................164 Chicano Studies Research Center .......................................................................................................68 City LAB at UCLA..............................................................................................................................33 Community-Based Dentistry for Adults and Children............................................................................82 Community-Based Denistry for Children .............................................................................................83 Community Partners in Care ..............................................................................................................82 Community Programs Office............................................................................................................164 Community Scholars Program..............................................................................................................5 Confucius Institute ...........................................................................................................................103 Critical Race Studies Program 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Dance Marathon ............................................................................................................................173 Dental Post-Baccalaureate Prep Program ............................................................................................34 Dental Screening and Clinic Day for Wilshire State Bank Customers .....................................................83 Department of Family Medicine .........................................................................................................84 Department of Information Studies .....................................................................................................34 Department of Public Policy .............................................................................................................143 Department of Social Welfare..........................................................................................................145 Department of Urban Planning ........................................................................................................146 Design for Sharing/Center for the Art of Performance At UCLA .........................................................136 Early Academic Outreach Programs...................................................................................................36 El Centro Legal Volunteer Clinics ......................................................................................................119 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities .......................................................................6 Fowler Museum at UCLA .................................................................................................................129 Frank G. Wells Enviornmental Law Clinic..........................................................................................123 General Dentistry for Adults at Free Clinics .........................................................................................85 General Dentistry for Patients in the Northeast San Fernando Valley .....................................................85 Hammer Museum ...........................................................................................................................130 Happy Feet Clinic .............................................................................................................................85 Health Fairs......................................................................................................................................86 Improving Access, Counseling, and Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer ..............................86 Increasing the Pipeline for Individuals Pursuing Oral Health Careers .....................................................36 Institute for Democracy, Education & Access .......................................................................................37 Internships & International, UCLA Career Center ...............................................................................174 Iris-Cantor –UCLA Women’s Health Education & Resource Center.........................................................87 Labor Occupational Safety & Health Program .....................................................................................87 Lennox Health Fair............................................................................................................................88 Los Angeles Physics Teachers Alliance Group ......................................................................................40 Magnolia Community Initiative ..........................................................................................................88 Management Development for Entrepreneurs Program ..........................................................................7 Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA ........................................................................................................88 Meals On Wheels...........................................................................................................................174 Medical Students Programs .............................................................................................................174 Megan E. Daly Infant Development Program.......................................................................................41 Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden At UCLA ...................................................................................63 Music Outreach Program ................................................................................................................137 National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA ................................................................................41 Native Nations Law & Policy Center .................................................................................................148 Net Impact .........................................................................................................................................7
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Office of Public Interest Programs.....................................................................................................149 Operation Mend...............................................................................................................................90 Oral Health Services in Eastern Sierra ................................................................................................91 Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies ....................................................................103 Paulo Freire Institute..........................................................................................................................43 Project Echo .......................................................................................................................................8 Project Export...................................................................................................................................91 Providing Dentures at Saban Free Clinic and VA Sites .........................................................................91 Public History Initiative ......................................................................................................................44 Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies ..........................................................................70 Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research ....................................................................................92 Statistical Consulting Center...............................................................................................................44 Student Initiated Activities ................................................................................................................178 Student of Color Outreach Workshop...............................................................................................124 Student Rotation to the Childrens Dental Center.................................................................................178 Student Run Homeless Clinics.............................................................................................................92 Sun Valley Community Health Center .................................................................................................92 The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment............................................................................45 The Los Angeles CommunIty Academic Partnership for Research in Aging.............................................93 The Luskin Center for Innovation ......................................................................................................152 The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCLA Extension.......................................................................45 The Philip C. Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematics and Teaching................................................................46 The Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies ...........................................................152 The Riordan Programs.........................................................................................................................8 The UCLA G.E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies .......................................................104 The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies ......................................................................................158 UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology ..............................................................47 UC Links ..........................................................................................................................................48 UCLA African Studies Center ...........................................................................................................105 UCLA Aids Institute ...........................................................................................................................93 UCLA Anderson Executive Education..................................................................................................48 UCLA Anderson Forecast ..................................................................................................................10 UCLA Art & Global Health Center......................................................................................................94 UCLA Asia Institute .........................................................................................................................106 UCLA Athletics Community Relations Program.....................................................................................53 UCLA Breath Mobile .........................................................................................................................95 UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations ..................................................................................107 UCLA Center for Argentina, Chile and the Southern Cone..................................................................107 UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies....................................................................................................108 UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies ....................................................................................................108 UCLA Center for Clinical Aids Research and Education........................................................................96 UCLA Center for Chinese Studies .....................................................................................................108 193 w w w. c o m m u n i t y d i r e c t o r y. u c l a . e d u
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Chàvez Department of Chicana/o Studies ...................................................................74 UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute .................................................................................96 UCLA Community-Based Learning Program ........................................................................................54 UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive .......................................................................................................138 UCLA Extension ................................................................................................................................55 UCLA Extension-Pathway at UCLA Extension.......................................................................................58 UCLA Extension American Language Center Workplace Language Programs ........................................55 UCLA Extension Certificate Program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling.........................................55 UCLA Extension Corporate Education/Custom Programs .....................................................................56 UCLA Extension Early Childhood Education Programs .........................................................................56 UCLA Extension K-12 Teacher Preliminary and Clear Credentialing ......................................................56 UCLA Extension K-12 Teacher Professional Development .....................................................................57 UCLA Extension Public Policy Program ...............................................................................................57 UCLA Extension School Counseling and School Psychology..................................................................57 UCLA Extension Teaching English as a Second Language or Foreign Language .....................................58 UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs ......................................................................................97 UCLA International Institute..............................................................................................................113 UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity...............................................................................97 UCLA Lab School..............................................................................................................................58 UCLA Latin American Institute ..........................................................................................................114 UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center ......................................................75 UCLA Library .................................................................................................................................131 UCLA Mobile Clinic ..........................................................................................................................98 UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic ....................................................................................................................98 UCLA Nursing Network.....................................................................................................................98 UCLA Prevention Research Center ......................................................................................................99 UCLA Recreation ..............................................................................................................................63 UCLA School Of Law Clinical Program .............................................................................................124 UCLA School Of Nursing Health Center..............................................................................................99 UCLA Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve ...........................................................................64 UCLA Ties For Families....................................................................................................................100 UCLA Unicamp...............................................................................................................................179 UCLA Volunteer Center ...................................................................................................................179 UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies ................................................................115 UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Head Start Management Fellows Program ...................................................60 UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program ..................................................................61 UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute...................................................................................10 UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Management Development Institute .............................................................12 194 2014
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Alumni Outreach and Engagement .............................................................................................163 Alumni Scholars Club ................................................................................................................163 ARTS & ARCHITECTURE, SCHOOL OF THE Design for Sharing/Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.....................................................136 Fowler Museum at UCLA............................................................................................................129 Hammer Museum ......................................................................................................................130 Music Outreach Program ...........................................................................................................137 UCLA Art & Global Health Center.................................................................................................94 UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive ..................................................................................................138 Visual and Performing Arts Education Program............................................................................139 ATHLETICS UCLA Athletics Community Relations Program ...............................................................................53 DENTISTRY, SCHOOL OF Community -Based Dentistry for Adults and Children......................................................................82 Community -Based Dentistry for Children ......................................................................................83 Dental Screening and Clinic Day for Wilshire State Bank Customers ................................................83 General Dentistry for Adults at Free Clinics....................................................................................85 General Dentistry for Patients in the Northeast San Fernando Valley................................................85 Health Fairs ................................................................................................................................86 Increasing the Pipeline for Individuals Pursuing Oral Health Careers................................................36 Oral Health Services in Eastern Sierra...........................................................................................91 Providing Dentures at Saban Free Clinic and VA Sites ....................................................................91 Student Initiated Activities...........................................................................................................178 Student Rotation to the Children’s Dental Center ...........................................................................178 EDUCATION & INFORMATION STUDIES, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF Academic Preparation & Education Partnership Programs ..............................................................13 Black Male Institute ......................................................................................................................18 Center for Improving Child Care Quality .......................................................................................24 Center for the Study of Evaluation/National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing .....................................................................................................................................27 Center X .....................................................................................................................................29 Department of Information Studies ................................................................................................34 Institute for Democracy, Education & Access ..................................................................................37 Paulo Freire Institute.....................................................................................................................43 UC Links .....................................................................................................................................48 UCLA Lab School.........................................................................................................................58 ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE, HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF Center for Excellence in Engineering & Diversity ............................................................................24
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EXTENSION The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCLA Extension .................................................................45 UCLA Extension...........................................................................................................................55 UCLA Extension – Pathway at UCLA Extension...............................................................................58 UCLA Extension American Language Center Workplace Language Programs...................................55 UCLA Extension Certificate Program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling....................................55 UCLA Extension Corporate Education/Custom Programs ................................................................56 UCLA Extension Early Childhood Education Programs ....................................................................56 UCLA Extension K-12 Teacher Preliminary and Clear Credentialing.................................................56 UCLA Extension K-12 Teacher Professional Development ................................................................57 UCLA Extension Public Policy Program ..........................................................................................57 UCLA Extension School Counseling and School Psychology ............................................................57 UCLA Extension Teaching English as a Second Language or Foreign Language ................................58 INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE Confucius Institute......................................................................................................................103 Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies ...............................................................103 The UCLA G.E. Von Grunenbaum Center for Near Eastern Studies ................................................104 UCLA African Studies Center ......................................................................................................105 UCLA Asia Institute ....................................................................................................................106 UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.............................................................................107 UCLA Center for Argentina, Chile and the Southern Cone ............................................................107 UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies...............................................................................................108 UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies ...............................................................................................108 UCLA Center for Chinese Studies ................................................................................................108 UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies .........................................................................109 UCLA Center for India & South Asia ...........................................................................................110 UCLA Center for Korean Studies .................................................................................................110 UCLA Center for Mexican Studies ...............................................................................................110 UCLA Center for Middle East Development ..................................................................................111 UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies ....................................................................................111 UCLA Center for World Languages and National Heritage Language Resource Center ...................112 UCLA International Institute ........................................................................................................113 UCLA Latin American Institute.....................................................................................................114 UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies...........................................................115 LAW, SCHOOL OF Academic Outreach Resource Center ..........................................................................................117 Asian Pacific Islander Law Student Association ............................................................................118 Critical Race Studies Program.....................................................................................................118 El Centro Legal Volunteer Clinics.................................................................................................119 Frank G. 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LETTERS & SCIENCE, COLLEGE OF American Indian Studies Center....................................................................................................65 Asian American Studies Center ....................................................................................................66 California Nanosystems Institute High School Nanoscience Program, a K-12 Outreach Program .......20 Center for Community College Partnerships ...................................................................................21 Center for Community Learning ....................................................................................................22 Center for Labor Research & Education .........................................................................................26 Center for Teaching Statistics ........................................................................................................26 Chicano Studies Research Center..................................................................................................68 City LAB at UCLA ........................................................................................................................33 Los Angeles Physics Teachers Alliance Group.................................................................................40 Megan E. Daly Infant Development Program..................................................................................41 Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden at UCLA ..............................................................................63 National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA...........................................................................41 Public History Initiative .................................................................................................................44 Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies .....................................................................70 Statistical Consulting Center .........................................................................................................44 The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.......................................................................45 The Philip C. Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematics and Teaching...........................................................46 UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology .........................................................47 UCLA Center for the Study of Women ...........................................................................................72 UCLA Cèsar E. Chàvez Department of Chicana/o Studies ..............................................................74 UCLA Community-Based Learning Program ...................................................................................54 UCLA Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve......................................................................64 LIBRARY UCLA Library ............................................................................................................................131 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library ...................................................................................133 MANAGEMENT, ANDERSON SCHOOL OF Applied Management Research Program ........................................................................................5 Challenge for Charity ................................................................................................................164 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities..................................................................6 Management Development for Entrepreneurs Program .....................................................................7 Net Impact ....................................................................................................................................7 Project ECHO................................................................................................................................8 The Riordan Programs ...................................................................................................................8 UCLA Anderson Executive Education.............................................................................................48 UCLA Anderson Forecast .............................................................................................................10 UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Head Start Management Fellows Program..............................................60 UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program .............................................................61 UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute .............................................................................10 UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Management Development Institute ........................................................12
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MEDICINE, DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF Care Harbor Clinic Health Clinic..................................................................................................77 Center for Behavioral & Addiction Medicine ..................................................................................77 Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture ...........................................................................82 Community Partners In Care.........................................................................................................82 Dance Marathon .......................................................................................................................173 Dental Post-Baccalaureate Prep Program .......................................................................................34 Department of Family Medicine ....................................................................................................84 Happy Feet Clinic ........................................................................................................................85 Improving Access, Counseling, and Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer .........................86 Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Education & Resource Center .....................................................87 Lennox Health Fair.......................................................................................................................88 Magnolia Community Initiative .....................................................................................................88 Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA ...................................................................................................88 Meals of Wheels .......................................................................................................................174 Medical Students Programs ........................................................................................................174 Operation Mend .........................................................................................................................90 Project Export..............................................................................................................................91 Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research...............................................................................92 Student Run Homeless Clinics .......................................................................................................92 Sun Valley Community Health Center ............................................................................................92 The Los Angeles Community Academic Partnership for Research in Aging .......................................93 UCLA AIDS Institute .....................................................................................................................93 UCLA Breathmobile .....................................................................................................................95 UCLA Center for Clinical Aids Research and Education ..................................................................96 UCLA Center on Longevity............................................................................................................73 UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute............................................................................96 UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs .................................................................................97 UCLA Mobile Clinic .....................................................................................................................98 UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic ...............................................................................................................98 UCLA TIES for Families...............................................................................................................100 UCLA/Salvation Army Outreach Clinic .......................................................................................100 Venice Family Clinic...................................................................................................................101 NURSING, SCHOOL OF Adopt-A-School Program .............................................................................................................17 Center for American Indian & Indigenous Research and Education..................................................21 Center for the Advancement of Gerontological Nursing Science ......................................................81 Center for Vulnerable Populations Research 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Department of Social Welfare.....................................................................................................145 Department of Urban Planning ...................................................................................................146 The Luskin Center for Innovation .................................................................................................152 The Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies ......................................................152 The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.................................................................................158 PUBLIC HEALTH, SCHOOL OF Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research .......................................................................77 Center for Health Policy Research .................................................................................................78 Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities................................................................79 Center for Occupational & Environmental Health ...........................................................................80 Center for Public Health & Disasters ..............................................................................................80 Labor Occupational Safety & Health Program................................................................................87 UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity .........................................................................97 UCLA Prevention Research Center.................................................................................................99 UCLA STUDENT AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS BruinCorps..................................................................................................................................19 Community Programs Office.......................................................................................................164 Early Academic Outreach Programs .............................................................................................36 Internships & International, UCLA Career Center..........................................................................174 UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center .................................................75 UCLA Recreation .........................................................................................................................63 UCLA UniCamp.........................................................................................................................179 UCLA Volunteer Center ..............................................................................................................179 Undegraduate Student Association Community Service Commission ..............................................183 THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION, SCHOOL OF ArtsBridge/School of Theater, Film & Television............................................................................135
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