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NextUp gives current and former California foster youth extra support when pursuing their higher education goals at a local community college.
The new name was chosen to help foster youth feel encouraged and excited about the next chapter in their lives.
“The name might have changed but the mission to support California foster students and their higher educational goals remains the same,” said California Community Colleges Executive Vice Chancellor Laura Hope. “Students in foster care face circumstances that are far more challenging than those faced by many of their peers. Such circumstances often make their futures uncertain. NextUp is an important first step to changing foster youth outcomes.”
NextUp was established through the enactment of Senate Bill 1023 (2014), which approved up to $15 million to fund foster youth programs at up to 10 community college districts across California.
Senate Bill 12 (2017) allows the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to expand the number of community college districts operating NextUp to up to 20, depending on available funding.
Currently, NextUp students at 26 community colleges participate in this program.
NextUp promotes academic success by using an in-person, individual approach when offering support and services, including books and supplies, child care, counseling and career guidance, educational planning, emergency housing assistance, food assistance, health services, life skills, financial literacy, mental health services, transportation assistance and tutoring. Support and services vary by college.
The renaming campaign is part of an overall effort to better help students connect with NextUp, as well as raise awareness about the program among current and prospective community college students, high school foster youth, their influencers and champion, key stakeholders and legislators.
“NextUp helps education leaders and community members better understand the scope of the challenge, and work toward a more successful scholastic experience and better life outcomes for foster youth,” Executive Vice Chancellor Hope said.
With the new name also comes the launch of several exciting new activities to help promote awareness about NextUp.
A new NextUp website (http://nextup.cccco.edu/) and several videos are available to help tell the NextUp story through peer-to-peer communication.
The Web site will serve as a statewide resource for California foster youth to help them understand what NextUp offers and connect them with a NextUp program.
The Student Services and Special Programs Division of the California Community College Chancellor’s Office administers NextUp.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 114 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year. Community colleges supply workforce training, basic skills education and prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions. For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/.
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Good job Zoe Markowitz, Shaina Yaquinto, Estefania Cuevas, Aileen Landeros, Marco Anguiano, Gilbert Lopez, Jessica Texeira, Marissa Doolin, Teagan Tompioner, Adrian Carpenter and Michael Naber. Congratulations to all these students for achieving above and beyond.
During the week of Halloween Carlé held its own Harvest Festival. Carlé’s student government hosted this daylong event. This was a great opportunity to build leadership skills as a school.
Some of the contests that were held were costume, musical chairs, the mummy wrap where the students wrapped their advisors to simulate them being a mummy, spooky donuts, a pie-eating contest, spooky jeopardy, spooky family feud, door decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving, jack o’ lantern candy toss and candy corn games.
In addition to all these activities, Carlé had lots of different food sponsored by Performance Mechanical. Thank you, Phil Harris, for how much you’ve given to Carlé in such a short time. Mr. Harris acted as DJ the whole day for this event as well as head barbecue chef.
We also would like to show our appreciation to Lily Oats and Taylor Smith, roommates of English teacher Lexi Fredricks, for baking all the sweet treats for the Harvest Festival.
Thanks goes out to our previous secretaries for coming and judging the doors of each of the classes and pumpkins. Thank you, Gina, Sherry and Barbara it was great seeing all of you again; we all miss you very much.
The winner of the costume contest for male participants was Autry Holbrook and the winner for female participants was Lexi Fredricks.
The results of the door decoration contest were Alan Siegel’s advisory lead by Shaina Yaquinto won first, Lance’s advisory won second, Angie Siegel won third and Lexi Fredricks in fourth.
The winners overall of the advisory contests were Alan Siegel’s advisory which came in first, Angie’s advisory came in second, Lance’s advisory came in third, and Lexi’s advisory came in fourth.
I asked Cataleena Steward, pumpkin carver extraordinaire, about her experience at the Harvest Festival. “I really enjoyed the day of having so much fun at school and just chilling with everyone listening to music and playing games,” she said. “I really enjoyed that everyone got along so well.”
I felt this event was really good experience for the school and hope to see many events this lively later in the year.
Thank you to everyone who helped organize this event for Carlé students we truly loved having fun all day.
Vanessa Bigelow, head designer for Carlé’s Student Body Enterprise Pegasus Productions, is making the plaques for the winner’s advisory for the Harvest fest competition. She will put the names of everyone who competed for Alan’s advisory on the plaque and it will stay on the walls of the school commemorating the event long into the future.
Ms. Bigelow helps on literally every design project in the school. She is effectively another teacher in the room every day in design class.
She is just finishing up a major project for the children of a program called Ultimate Peace that takes place in the middle east.
Nicholas Phipps is a student at Carlé Continuation High School.
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The award is an initiative of the California Economic Summit in partnership with California Forward and the California Stewardship Network.
Ton-Quinlivan was recognized on Nov. 2 during the California Economic Summit at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.
The Summit is attended by leaders from all regions of California who come together on an annual basis to work on common issues of importance to the state’s triple bottom line: one million more skilled workers, one million more acre-feet of water and one million more units of affordable housing.
“It is a great honor to be of service to California and Californians,” states Ton-Quinlivan. “I am thankful to Governor Jerry Brown and Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley for the opportunity to bring forth my private and public-sector background to shape the role of California Community Colleges in building a strong workforce that fuels regional economies and advances social mobility.”
The California Steward Leader Award celebrates “state and regional leaders who help sustain California as a place to create and thrive, to enjoy and to explore, to nurture and to bestow to future generations.”
Past recipients of this award include former California Sen. Becky Morgan, Bud Colligan of the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership and Sunne Wright McPeak of the California Emerging Technology Fund.
“I admire Van’s vision and courageous tenacity in driving forward the state’s workforce agenda and bringing such an inclusive group along to help reach the goal,” said Bill Allen, chief executive officer of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation and a member of the California Steward Leader Award selection committee.
“Vice Chancellor Ton-Quinlivan is a dynamic leader, and the work she and the rest of the state Chancellor’s Office team are doing to build a stronger workforce is helping to lift more Californians into the middle class and beyond,” said Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley. “We are fortunate to have a person with her vision and experience helping to move California forward.”
Ton-Quinlivan is a nationally recognized thought leader in workforce development with a proven track record for implementing large-scale system change, due in part to her ability to inspire others toward a common, unifying vision.
Appointed by the governor in 2011 as vice chancellor of workforce and economic development (now workforce and digital futures), she oversees federal and state funding that advance the workforce mission across California’s 114 community colleges, the largest higher education system in the nation.
As vice chancellor, Ton-Quinlivan spearheaded the creation of Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy, a unifying framework to improve workforce outcomes for California’s 2.1 million community college students and fuel strong regional economies. During her tenure, her administrative responsibility has grown from $100 million to $900 million as a result of her ability to inspire others toward a common vision.
Named a White House Champion of Change in 2013, she has been quoted in the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed, and has contributed to the Stanford Social Innovation Review, U.S. News & World Report, the Fresno Bee, and others.
Ton-Quinlivan is a board member of National Skills Coalition and the California Council on Science & Technology, and she serves on the National Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship. Prior to her current role, Ton-Quinlivan oversaw workforce development for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). She holds degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Education and Georgetown University.
The California Economic Summit also recognized the recipient of the first regional 2017 California Steward Leader Award: Deborah Nankivell, chief executive officer of the Fresno Business Council.
California Community Colleges was further honored during the California Economic Summit, as two of its career education programs at Chaffey College and Antelope Valley College were among winners of the organization’s Partnerships for Industry and Education Contest.
The InTECH Learning Center is a public-private partnership between Chaffey College and California Steele Industries – along with along with 12 other regional community colleges, the Manufacturers Council and the local county workforce agency – tasked with increasing the number of skilled manufacturing craft workers in the Inland Empire.
The Antelope Valley Career Pathways Group is a partnership of Antelope Valley College, the City of Palmdale, Goodwill of Southern California, L.A. County Workforce Development and Northrop Grumman designed to fill a need for thousands of trained workers in the region, in large part because of Northrop Grumman winning a large Department of Defense contract to build aircraft in Palmdale.
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However, this year multiple counties have experienced this tragedy including Napa, Mendocino, Sonoma, Butte and Yuba. More than 40 people lost their lives and close to 8,000 structures were destroyed.
Since Lake County has such experience with the large-scale fires, a lot of damage was avoided due to our experience with this situation. Many of us even had bags and valuables pre packed. Our pre-packedout to the families that lost their lives, homes and possession during these fires.
We the students and staff of Carlé would like to offer a huge thank you to Woodland College and its entire staff.
On Oct. 25 Carlé students were given a tour of this wonderful college. During this tour students were given the opportunity to see the wonderful Aromas Café run by Chef Robert Cabreros.
We then continued on to the library led by the unique and special Kandice Goodman who is one the sweetest people alive.
Ms. Goodman told us we could use the library to study and offered us the opportunity to apply for library cards. We then sat down and listened to an inspiring presentation by Bruno Sabatier.
Following that we listened to an opportunity offered by Charlotte Lee, who is a lead tutor at the college. Ms. Lee explained to us about the special tutoring programs for student who need assistance available at the college.
Finally, we revisited Aromas Café to listen to six college students – all but one a Carlé graduate – speak about their experiences in college and the benefits it offers.
The students who spoke to and with us were Jose Pelaez, Danielle Stennet, Trevor Giovacchini, Brianna Legg, Nicholas Kieffer and Emily Simmons. Thank you for your deep and moving words.
“The college was a very fun and informative experience,” Carlé student Jaime Miller said. “The Woodland College staff broke down the information very clearly. I felt it was individualized. We visited classrooms and met new people to help us get started with college.”
I then asked Miller what her favorite part of visiting the college was and she responded, “My favorite part was eating the delicious food that was made for us.”
We cannot show our appreciation enough. As a thank you to all these wonderful people that helped Carlé with getting started at college, Carlé ’s SBE program will be designing each of these helpers plaques to show our thanks.
Totes for Teens is an organization run by Cheri Johnson that assists teens in need by providing them with essential supplies such as hand-knitted hats, school supplies, sleeping bags and much more.
Because of the recent fires Totes for Teens is going above and beyond, helping not just students of Konocti Unified and Lake County but many students of the counties affected by the fires.
Due to Totes For Teens’ constant support of Carlé we are making each of these dedicated people coffee mugs designed and pressed by students of Carlé themselves. Thank you Totes for Teens for all you do for students and the community.
A Lake County rock contest sponsored by Carol Lynn Anderson has come to a conclusion. The first place winner was Remy McCosker, second place was Katie West and third place was Cheryl Johns. Each of these people received a plaque designed by Carlé ’s SBE program students.
Amanda Guyette, Sally Brown and Christy Clerk Jennings will receive a mug designed by Carlé’s SBE program students for their submissions as well. Congratulations to the winners we feel this is a wonderful program that really brings hope and joy to our community.
DJ’s Pizza held a fundraiser for Carlé on Oct. 11. We truly appreciate what this business does for Carlé and many other schools in our district. In addition to this fundraiser DJ’s donates to us a free pizza every week to give to our student of the week.
As promised in the last article, here are the results of the student council election: The president is David Bejar, vice president is Ray Azevedo, treasurer is Abebreanna Gonzales, secretary is Teagan Tompioner and, finally, activities director is Tarah Denson. Additionally Cindy Ramirez and Caiden Harvey are student council representatives.
Congratulations to all and we hope that you sponsor some great activities this year. Student council will sponsor our annual Harvest Fest which will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Lots of activities are planned and details will be in the next article.
Nicholas Phipps is a student at Carlé Continuation High School.