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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Y PLAN | RESILIENT BY DESIGN
This blog was written by Resilient by Design describing their exciting partnership with Y-PLAN. “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…
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