The Power of Youth Voice in Realizing Health Equity in the City of Richmond & WCCUSD Schools
Understanding and lifting up the role that young people play in driving healthy, equitable policies in their schools and cities. Assessing how PLUS & Y-PLAN prepare civic leaders to respond to the needs of young people when crafting policy. Envisioning how cities and schools collect and utilize data to demonstrate positive outcomes for young people…
One Hundred Participants Selected for “TOMODACHI Summer 2018 SoftBank Leadership Program” at University of California, Berkeley
This is an informational article about the Tomodachi Y-PLAN studio and the work the students produce for their communities. The article also has a series of testimonials from past Y-PLAN Tomodachi participants.
One Hundred Next-Generation Leaders, Leading the Future of Tohoku, Developed Action Plans to Bring Positive Changes to Communities upon Completion of Program in the U.S.
100 students from the Tohoku region in Japan participated in a 3 week long Y-PLAN studio where they stayed in UC Berkeley. The students drafted proposals for the city of Richmond in the first half of the project and in the latter half the students created projects for their communities back home.
Designing a More Resilient Bay Area
This article shows the final design proposals from the RBD design teams.
4th Grade Urban Designers
This video features 4th graders from Malcolm X elementary showing a bit of their designs for the Y-PLAN|RBD project. They talk about why they care about sea level rise.
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…
Two Way Bay: Estuary Leaders Reflect on Resilience
This 8-minute film interviews eight directors of water quality, restoration, and environmental programs around the San Francisco Estuary about their experience of the 2017-2018 Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge. ESTUARY News asked these leaders — some of whom also sit on the SF Estuary Partnership’s Estuary Blueprint Implementation Committee — how the results of…
Sacramento Area Students Showcase Y-PLAN Projects at City Hall
The article informs the reader on the final Y-PLAN presentations from students in Johnson High School and Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High School.
Exploring the concept of “resilience” …
In response to rapidly changing environmental and political climates around the world, governing agencies are grappling with the notion of resilience. How can communities continue to thrive with chronic and acute threats such as sea level rise, drought, fire, growing inequality, and unaffordable housing? Community engagement is often sought by governing agencies in determining answers…
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…
Creating an Empowered Youth Commission
This report is intended to help understand strategic ways to empower and strengthen the West Contra Costa Youth Commission. It is broken up into 7 parts:
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.
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 important 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.
Young Urbanists Present Ideas For Living With Sea Level Rise
This is a segment from CBS Bay Area news that includes interviews from Y-PLAN students discussing their RBD projects
Toward Defining Resilience with Y-PLAN
Page 79 of this activity guide is an activity for teachers and students to explore their school grounds and look for examples of resiliency as well as come up with ways their school can be more resilient. The lesson plan uses fundamental aspects of the Y-PLAN methodology like working with young people and allowing them…
Y-PLAN Site Mapping and Resilient Bay Inspiration Tour: Skyline High School
What is natural and what is artificial? If they, as an agile group of teenagers, struggle to cross a busy street, what would their younger siblings do? If sea level rise claims part of their city’s land, who will suffer first? Read about the way Skyline High School Y-PLAN students grappled with these questions and…
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.
Flood Fair 2018 Interview
This is a video of interviews with different community members who attended the Flood Fair to learn more about sea level rise and community resilience.
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