Explore the official kickoff event for the Y-PLAN Resilient by Design Youth Challenge, which challenges young people from urban public school classrooms across the Bay Area to create a unified vision and resilient future for their communities.

For the past year, the president has been consistent in pledging to bolster the country's K-12 schools as part of an infrastructure plan to right what he's characterized as a facilities problem. Trump has been making the pitch since his campaign trail days, but what he left off his infrastructure to-do list concerns advocates: Schools.

The [Re]Build America’s School Infrastructure Coalition (BASIC) includes non-partisan organizations and individuals who support federal funding to help underserved public school districts modernize their facilities. CC+S serves on the coalition leadership team.

Resilient by Design is excited to partner with the UC Berkeley Center for Cities+Schools (CC+S) through the evidence-based Y-PLAN educational methodology and to be involved in the collaborative effort to create a unified vision for a resilient future for the Bay Area.

Although capital project collaborations are not usually in anybody’s job description, when joint use projects are successful they tend to become the highlights of a facility planner’s resume. This article includes Jeff Vincent's two critical elements of a successful collaboration: shared vision and mutual accountability.

"Rebuilding America's Schools: Creating Jobs by Expanding Equitable Access to High-Quality Physical and Digital Infrastructure in Schools"