Opinion: How California can give unhoused students a helping hand
Y-PLAN’s success shows what is possible when we entrust young people to lead
Local students’ research, experiences to inform Facebook-funded housing study
In an emotional presentation, four local high school students recently shared their experiences of the housing crisis with the Menlo Park City Council
Making Youth Perspectives Count Beyond an Educational Exercise (Estuary News)
Estuary News Magazine wrote an article about the partnership between Y-PLAN and RbD focusing on the agency students gain through the Y-PLAN process. They argue that Y-PLAN encourages city officials to actively engage youth in the planning process by being intentional about including youth and not just setting up programs that are marginal to the…
Three ways Berkeley connects with the community
Y-PLAN received an award from the UCB Chancellor for their partnership with the African American Male Achievement Initiative in OUSD.
Bay Area Students Offer Solutions to Sea Level Rise: The collaborative effort tackles the threat of flooding and sea level rise
This article talks about the imprtant role Y-PLAN plays in connecting students with real life community partners. It also argues that the students’ proposals could be used to propel plans in the community.
Urban Planning Projects Can Foster Team Building, New Worldviews
Teaching this subject has moved from reading textbooks to students designing their own potential spaces — which experts say promotes key life skills.
Math, history and … the housing crisis? Subject lands in Bay Area schools
The Mercury News takes a look at all of the work that Y-PLAN Students are doing in the Bay Area to help people gain more access to affordable housing
Design competition tackles sites around Bay Area to address rising waters
This article introduces the Resilient by Design competition and it’s focus on Bay Area sea level rise. It also shows the 9 regions the design teams will be working with, which are the regions Y-PLAN students also worked with in this partnership.
Chancellor honors students, staff and faculty committed to public service
Y-PLAN was recognized for the Campus Community Partnership Award for their partnership with RBD.
Designing a More Resilient Bay Area
This article shows the final design proposals from the RBD design teams.
Students Offer Holistic Solutions to Bay Area Climate Change Challenges
Students from all over the Bay Area gathered in Alumni Hall for the final Y-PLAN presentations in partnership with RBD. Their proposals were about sustainability but they encompassed more than sea level rise, they represented a more holistic idea of sustainability being one that includes the health, and social well being of a community rather…
Marin Voice: San Rafael Youth Offer Ideas to Address Sea-Level Rise
We are fifth-grade students at Laurel Dell Elementary School in San Rafael. Since we were in fourth grade we have been working on projects about our city with architects from Youth in Arts and UC Berkeley’s Y-PLAN (a learning project that stands for Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now). We wrote this newspaper column so…
Y-Plan Ends With A-Z Guide From Youth In Improving S.F. Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area students in the upper echelons of creative thinking put a new spin on “kids will say and do the darndest things” as the brightest stars took to the mastermind campus of U.C. Berkeley for the 2019 Y-PLAN Policy Summit: Planning a More Inclusive and Resilient Region.
SF Estuary News: A Tricky Ballet
How can we educate our families and community about the impacts of sea level rise on Bayview and San Francisco?
Student Ideas for a Greener, Safer Life
Article in the San Francisco Chronicle from April 26, 2019 highlighting a daylong Y-PLAN conference at UC Berkeley.
How to make the world a better place? Start with exercise bikes, for one
Article in the San Francisco Chronicle from April 25, 2019 highlighting a daylong Y-PLAN conference at UC Berkeley.
Close to Home: 4th graders can make a difference on energy, climate change
Fourth Graders study energy and invited UC Berkeley and public transportation experts from the program called Y-PLAN (Youth-Plan Learn Act Now) to help the build a model of Santa Rosa, and understand the environment better so they could think about the future of Santa Rosa.
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