Children Awards - History

2024 Bold Steps for Children Award – Celebrating School Wellness Centers

2024 Changemakers for Children Award - Supervisor Cindy Chavez

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2023 Bold Steps for Children Award – Youth Liberation Movement

2023 Changemakers for Children Award - Elise Cutini, Kathleen King, Laura Garnett, Reymundo Espinoza, Sparky Harlan and posthumously, Julie Cates. 

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2022 - Juvenile Justice Gender Responsive Task Force - Taking a Stand: Ending the Incarceration of Girls and Gender-Expansive Youth ​​

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2019 – Judge Patrick Tondreau – Leadership in Better Results for Youth in the Justice System 

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2018 – SCC Board of Supervisors - for steps taken to organize and fund support for our community’s immigrant children and families 

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2017 – Californians for Justice – youth organized to demand that the State Dept. of Education include social/emotional and school climate measures in the state dashboard for schools.

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2016 – Partners Promoting Universal Developmental Screening - FIRST 5, Gardner, SCC Behavioral Health, SCCOE, SCC HHS, Sup. Ken Yeager

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2015 – Juvenile Justice Systems Partners 

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2014 – Family Engagement Leaders – CommUniverCity, Franklin McKinley Children’s Initiative, Grail Family Services 

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2013 – Yerba Buena High School - for reducing school suspensions

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2012 – YMCA/Project Cornerstone 

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2011 – Adobe Youth Voices 

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2010 – Bob Kirkwood  & Partners Developing Alternatives to Foster Care 

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2009 – Applied Materials - for investing strategy that helped to improve school outcomes and worked with schools and PACT and others to focus investments on key levers for change 

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2008 – The Children’s Health Initiative – Collaborative that made it possible for all children in SCC to have health insurance (leading the state)