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Connect * Collaborate * Contribute
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The North State Planning and Development Collective is excited to announce the first installment of its new video podcast series, "The Collective Voice." The first episode kicks off 2021 with an interview with Kevin O'Rorke, CEO of North State Together. Check it out by clicking the video below to learn more about what we're up to! |
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North State Children's Well-Being |
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Imagine if every child in the North State had the opportunity to reach their full potential. This is the heart of our work at North State Together and our county collective impact networks.
The 2020-21 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being is an online, interactive report delivering a current and comprehensive picture of children’s health, education, and welfare in every one of California’s 58 counties. This report provides county-level data mapping, tracking key indicators of child well-being across counties, over time.
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Track Technical Talent in the North State |
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What is the Tech Talent Tracker?
The Tech Talent Tracker is designed to help rural leaders understand their tech ecosystems, from identifying local tech employers to assessing area residents' digital skills. The Tracker wields county-level data to create a comprehensive report with detailed maps and charts on key metrics such as employment in digital jobs, computer science graduation rates, and broadband connectivity—all while providing comparisons to peer counties and the nation.
These interactive reports are downloadable and easily shared, and can help local leaders allocate resources, write more effective grants, and tell their communities' stories.
Below are five of the most impactful and interesting ways anyone can use the TTT:
- Compare your county to see how it stacks up.
- Identify your county’s digital employment.
- Discover who’s graduating with top-notch coding skills nearby.
- See how the digital divide is affecting your neighbors.
- Search for open tech jobs in your region—or send them to a friend.
- Find who speaks your (programming) language.
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FAFSA/CADAA Regional Completion Campaign |
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FAFSA and CADAA submissions are down in the North State. Help spread the word to our students and parents to submit their applications now. They could win $500, or even $5,000 for submitting their #FAFSA or #CADAA thanks to our friends @gotocollegeca and College Futures Foundation. Learn how on the Let's Go website and help make #FinAidFabulous!
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North State FAFSA/CA Dream Act Race to Submit results are updated weekly by North State Together's data specialist and posted on our interactive data dashboard. Check out your county's current submission numbers at: http://northstatetogether.org/fafsa/
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Financial Aid Assistance for North State Families |
National reports show that FAFSA completions are down all across the country and our region is no exception. We all know the likely rationale for lagging FAFSA filings, however, regardless of the realities of the circumstances facing all of us right now, we also know lagging FAFSA submissions means less financial aid in the hands of our North State families and likely lower numbers of enrolled students in the fall.
Fortunately our North State students and parents have free FAFSA completion assistance through College OPTIONS. Please encourage students/families in Shasta, Tehama, Trinity, Modoc and Siskiyou counties to contact Brad Williams to take advantage of this unique North State resource.
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"Enjoy Exceptional Living" is provided courtesy of Enjoy Magazine, KFOI 90.9 FM Community Radio and Lynn E. Fritz, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist.
Check out the recent radio series featuring North State Together and each of our five county networks by visiting http://www.kfoiradio.org and going to the Archive section:
- North State Together featuring Kevin O'Rorke and Jamie Spielmann
- Advancing Modoc Youth featuring Tanja Ramming
- Trinity Together: A Cradle to Career Partnership featuring Teckla Johnson and Anna Carson
- Reach Higher Shasta featuring Superintendent Rob Adams and Hope Seth
- Cradle to Careers for Siskiyou featuring Dawn Slabaugh and Stephen Schoonmaker
- Expect More Tehama featuring Kathy Garcia and Heidi Mendenhall
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Do spreadsheets, graphs, and data make you feel like this guy? Don't be afraid! North State Together's data team offers data coaching and consulting services to help our county network collective impact teams drive systematic change across their county and the North State region. The weekly drop-in sessions with North State Together's data team is meant to be an informal place to come and ask your data questions without fear! Come ask impromptu or random questions or let us know ahead of time, and we can prepare coaching topics based on our most frequent requests from partners or customize the drop-in call to meet your county collective networks needs and goals. These free drop-ins are open to anyone on steering or subcommittees for Reach Higher Shasta, Expect More Tehama, Advancing Modoc Youth, Trinity Together Cradle to Career Partnership, or Cradle to Careers for Siskiyou
Have a question on your county network's Roadmap or data tracking spreadsheets? Have miscellaneous data questions for a grant report for your county? Applying for a grant and need help with metric choices? This is your time to ask North State Together's backbone team your data questions! Login to this informal question and answer session. To obtain the Zoom link contact your county coordinator or email nst@shastacollege.edu
Upcoming Drop-Ins:
- Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
- Monday, March 1, 2021 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
- Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, March 17, 2021 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
- Thursday, March 25, 2021 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
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Creating an Equitable & Future-Focused Manufacturing...
Apprenticeship is an effective means of training & upskilling workers in manufacturing occupations. Don’t miss this FREE event! Join North State Together's partner, Jobs for the Future, to discover how apprenticeship can help your business.
Read more
www.jff.org
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College & Career Readiness in the North State |
A driving force of North State Together's collective impact work is a desire for ALL students in the North State to graduate from high school ready for college, career, and life, and prepared to pursue the future of their choosing. As Reach Higher Shasta likes to put it #EveryStudentEveryOption.
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K-12 STEM Grant Opportunity |
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The Community Foundation of the North State has a contact with funder ARDC. They have added select K-12 STEM educational activities to its grant offerings and is currently seeking proposals from organizations in our region.
Eligible education projects include those that:
• Create easy-to-understand and accessible educational materials about radio, digital communication, or communications science;
• Provide hands-on opportunities for learning these technologies, inside of the classroom and out; and/or
• Educate legislators, regulators, and the public about these technologies and their implications.
The application has a somewhat rolling deadline but they recommend applications be submitted no later than June for consideration in 2021. For info on how to apply and eligibility, visit: https://www.ampr.org/giving/#eligibility
For questions, please contact Hank Magnuski, grant committee member at hank.magnuski@gmail.com.
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Cradle to Career Data System
North State Together seeks to create a regional cradle-to-career data system to help guide our county networks. California is now also on the verge of creating a longitudinal data system that could help policymakers identify...
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www.ppic.org
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Restoring and Healing Tehama County:
2020 Will Not Dictate Our Vision of the Future
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North State Together's county network, Expect More Tehama, cordially invites you to join us for a meaningful monthly workshop series. Each workshop will be accompanied by a helpful guide that showcases insightful resources, contacts, stories, and events related to the topic. Let’s continue to work together and refuse to allow the chaos of 2020 to dictate our vision of the future. Save the dates! |
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The Superior California Economic Development is conducting a stakeholder survey in Shasta, Siskiyou, Modoc and Trinity Counties to gather perspectives on the regional economy. Survey input will be used in developing the regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and helping communities identify economic development priorities.
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