Congratulations to the 2016 Collaborative Working Group Grantees!
SF B2C is excited to provide grants to six Collaborative Working Groups including two new groups that just launched this year! Collaborative Working Groups (CWGs) are groups of cross-sector stakeholders that have come together to plan and execute collective actions aligned with the shared vision of the Santa Fe Birth to Career Collaboration and the Mayor’s Children, Youth and Families Community Cabinet to improve birth to career outcomes for Santa Fe children, youth and families.
Congratulations to the following six 2016 CWG Grantees!
- Early Childhood Steering Committee
- Building Green Bridges
- Extended Learning for SFPS
- Community Educators Network
- CONNECT (New!)
- Santa Fe Advance: Workforce and Career Pathways (New!)
Three additional Collaborative Working Groups that received the grant in 2021 are continuing the work and partnership with SF B2C:
- Collaborative Teachers Institute
- 1Santa Fe
- Bridging the Disconnected
More about 2016 Collaborative Working Group Grantees
The Early Childhood Steering Committee (ECSC)
Outcome Area: Early Childhood Success
Outcome Area: Early Childhood Success
The Early Childhood Steering Committee is engaged in the coordination and promotion of early childhood activities and complementary services, to serve as a community voice in the formulation of early childhood goals and objectives and to identify such other services and activities as deemed necessary by the Members. A priority action for the ECSC over the last year has been the creation of the Santa Fe Early Learning Center at Agua Fria and the Santa Fe Early Learning Center at Kaune. Currently the ECSC is focused on creating a county wide shared data collection system through the work of the Healthy Babies and Kindergarten Readiness Data Teams, which include early childhood partners throughout Santa Fe.
Lead Convener: United Way of Santa Fe County
Other Core Team Members including Two Data Teams: Santa Fe Public School; Presbyterian Medical Services; CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center; Santa Fe Community College; Santa Fe County Community Services Department; City of Santa Fe Children and Youth Commission; Santa Fe Community Foundation; La Familia Medical Center, Las Cumbres Community Services, SVH Support
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The Early Childhood Steering Committee is engaged in the coordination and promotion of early childhood activities and complementary services, to serve as a community voice in the formulation of early childhood goals and objectives and to identify such other services and activities as deemed necessary by the Members. A priority action for the ECSC over the last year has been the creation of the Santa Fe Early Learning Center at Agua Fria and the Santa Fe Early Learning Center at Kaune. Currently the ECSC is focused on creating a county wide shared data collection system through the work of the Healthy Babies and Kindergarten Readiness Data Teams, which include early childhood partners throughout Santa Fe.
Lead Convener: United Way of Santa Fe County
Other Core Team Members including Two Data Teams: Santa Fe Public School; Presbyterian Medical Services; CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center; Santa Fe Community College; Santa Fe County Community Services Department; City of Santa Fe Children and Youth Commission; Santa Fe Community Foundation; La Familia Medical Center, Las Cumbres Community Services, SVH Support
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The Building Green Bridges Collaborative Working Group (BGB)
Outcome Area: K-12, Disconnected Youth, Post-Secondary, Career
Outcome Area: K-12, Disconnected Youth, Post-Secondary, Career
Building on the success of the Academy for Sustainability Education (ASE), the Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS) Board of Education unanimously voted to start the Early College Opportunities (ECO) Applied Science Magnet High School in the 2016-2017 school year. Working with ECO, the core mission of BGB is to use community connections, data-driven best practices, workforce readiness skills, and a wrap-around approach to maximize academic and career success for Santa Fe youth. While ECO will be the applied setting for BGB, the mission will also focus on developing, applying, interpreting, and reforming success metrics, training protocols, and the engagement of industry, government, nonprofit, and volunteer stakeholders to support and leverage the work of the applied science magnet school. ECO is representative of a recent trend in high school education that aims to better prepare students for college or a career straight out of high school, while giving them a head start on attaining certifications and/or a college degree.
Lead Convener and Core Team Members: Early College Opportunities (ECO) Applied Science Magnet School, Santa Fe Community College, the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association/Dreamcatcher Foundation, the Building Trades Advisory Corporation, the Green Chamber of Commerce, Interfaith Coalition for Public Education, youth service organizations, and community volunteers.
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CONNECT Collaborative Working Group (CWG)
Outcome Area: K-12 Success, Youth Resiliency
Outcome Area: K-12 Success, Youth Resiliency
CONNECT seeks to bring together agencies involved in youth tutoring and mentoring programs in Santa Fe to share resources, streamline efforts, create community awareness, and support the creation of a website with resources for volunteers interested in or involved in mentoring and tutoring. Connect goals are to increase efficiency of mentoring, tutoring and eventually intern efforts, enhance the quality of programs and relationships and expand access to programs. Priority actions include enhancing mentor/tutor orientation and training; advancing community engagement by expanding the current hub for mentoring, tutoring and internship opportunities; increasing the mentor/tutor pool through city-wide marketing; and enriching engagement for current and prospective mentor/tutor via shared education, enrichment and outreach opportunities.
Lead Convener: Communities in Schools-NM, Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region
Other Core Team Members: Inspire Santa Fe, Academy for the Love of Learning, Santa Fe Public Schools, and the Interfaith Coalition for Public Education.
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Lead Convener: Communities in Schools-NM, Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region
Other Core Team Members: Inspire Santa Fe, Academy for the Love of Learning, Santa Fe Public Schools, and the Interfaith Coalition for Public Education.
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Extended Learning for SFPS Collaborative Working Group (ELCWG)
Outcome Area: K-12 Success, Youth Resiliency
Outcome Area: K-12 Success, Youth Resiliency
ELCWG’s goals are to keep children safe and healthy during out of school time, to address academic achievement gaps through extended learning time, to prevent summer learning loss, to expose children to a variety of enrichment activities and experiences, and to instill in children a curiosity about the world and a love of learning. The ELCWG vision is that all students grades K-8 will have access to extended learning opportunities through after-school and summer programs, and for low income students these programs will be free. The collaborative working group seeks ways to support and coordinate existing after-school and summer programs, design new collaborative programs, pool existing funding and resources, and look for new funding and resources in order to expand and improve extended learning opportunities for SFPS students.
Lead Convener: Santa Fe Public Schools
Other Core Team Members: SFPS board, staff, principal and teachers; Adelante; City of Santa Fe Children and Youth Commission; Teen Court of Santa Fe County; Boys and Girls Club; Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences; Communities in Schools New Mexico; Sustainable Santa Fe Commission; Earth Care; Santa Fe Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce; United Way of Santa Fe County; Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute; American Educational Research Association
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Lead Convener: Santa Fe Public Schools
Other Core Team Members: SFPS board, staff, principal and teachers; Adelante; City of Santa Fe Children and Youth Commission; Teen Court of Santa Fe County; Boys and Girls Club; Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences; Communities in Schools New Mexico; Sustainable Santa Fe Commission; Earth Care; Santa Fe Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce; United Way of Santa Fe County; Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute; American Educational Research Association
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The Community Educators Network (CEN)
Outcome Area: K-12 Success, Youth Resiliency
Outcome Area: K-12 Success, Youth Resiliency
CEN seeks to expose all children to enriching out of classroom learning experiences to help students succeed by keeping them positively engaged in and out of school. CEN members work in concert to provide professional development, educational resources, and outcome-driven programming in and out of school hours.
Lead Convener: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe Botanical Gardens,
Other Members: New Mexico Audubon, School of Advanced Research, New Mexico MESA, New Mexico History Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Art House, Interfaith Coalition for Public Education, International Museum of Folk Art, EEANM, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Girls Inc, Wise Fool, Art Smart, Art Works, Santa Fe Watershed Association and many other community partners
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Lead Convener: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe Botanical Gardens,
Other Members: New Mexico Audubon, School of Advanced Research, New Mexico MESA, New Mexico History Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Art House, Interfaith Coalition for Public Education, International Museum of Folk Art, EEANM, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Girls Inc, Wise Fool, Art Smart, Art Works, Santa Fe Watershed Association and many other community partners
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SANTA FE ADVANCE: Workforce and Career Pathways
Outcome Area: Post-Secondary, Career
Outcome Area: Post-Secondary, Career
Santa Fe Advance CWG’s mission is to advance the development of educational and training workforce initiatives that support career transition and success, job creation, and economic development. The CWG’s priority actions will include analyzing current workforce and pipeline data as well as business skills needs, mapping existing programs and resources for workforce development and career pathways to define gaps and challenges, developing an implementation plan for workforce development and career pathways, developing communication strategies for multiple stakeholder engagement including businesses and educational institutions, and planning and implementing pilot skills training and campaign programs.
Lead Convener: Educate + Innovate
Other Core Team Members: Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, Santa Fe Workforce Connections Center, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, NM Dept. of Workforce Solutions, Los Alamos National Lab, NM Hospitality Association, Christus St. Vincent, NM Jobs Council Liaison, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Cityof Santa Fe
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Lead Convener: Educate + Innovate
Other Core Team Members: Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, Santa Fe Workforce Connections Center, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, NM Dept. of Workforce Solutions, Los Alamos National Lab, NM Hospitality Association, Christus St. Vincent, NM Jobs Council Liaison, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Cityof Santa Fe
Visit SF B2C Collaboration Hub to learn more.