UC Essential Needs Consortium Spring Salon Series and Monthly UC Social Services Community Meetings
Winter-Spring 2024 Salon Series
Please join us for continuing a series of generative spaces to learn, explore timely issues, and map possibilities as we invite creativity and collective insights into the space. The CEJA UC ENC winter and spring workshops below are emergent across food, housing, and case management. Each session will be approximately 75 minutes in length, recorded, and include a shared google doc agenda as well as a jam board for adding questions in advance and during the session itself. Please select which salons you would like to attend and we will send you a zoom invite for the specific sessions ahead! For any questions please email Tim Galarneau at tgalarne@ucsc.edu
Click here to sign up now for any of the upcoming Salon Seminars
Food Security
Onsite Food Access and EBT Usage
- Date: Friday, January 26, 2024
- Time: 9:30-10:45am PST
- Brief Overview: Key elements will entail lifting campus implementation examples, reviewing updated application and renewal guidance, and discussing mechanisms to improve promotion and usage on campuses.
Advancing Culturally Relevant and Diverse Foodways
- Date: Friday, April 12, 2024
- Time: 9:30-10:45am PST
Brief Overview: This session will uplift promising practices to increase underinvested community food producers and enterprises into basic needs campus sourcing; creativity in shelf stable to fresh, frozen, and refrigerated products; as well as, promotion and program partnerships on campuses to deepen belonging and student engagement. This session will also feature campus and community food donation, recovery, and giving partnerships to support basic needs and food support efforts.
Food Systems Advocacy and Action: From Campus to our Communities:
- Date: Friday, May 17, 2024
- Time: 9:30-10:45am PST
Brief Overview: Key elements will include timely state and federal policy and grant making opportunities that can uplift and connect basic needs programs to larger community food systems efforts. We will feature two campus partnership examples and provide a grant-making timeline for FY24-25 for teams to consider.
Housing & Case Management
On Campus Housing Access and Affordability
- Date: Friday, Feb 2, 2024
- Time: 9:45-11am PST
Brief overview: Key elements that will be featured include relevant campus housing policies overview, room and board rate process, presentation on CA affordable housing project impacts on lowering future costs for students, highlights of other affordable on campus housing support models (non-crisis based), discussion on how to advance equitizing access across UC campuses for onsite housing.
Off Campus Housing Access and Affordability
- Date: Friday, March 15, 2024
- Time: 10:30-11:45AM PST
Brief overview: This session will provide space to explore housing advocate issues facing students in higher education alongside timely bills introduced and in motion this legislative cycle. We’ll also learn more from campus housing support staff on local housing challenges and how our campus teams are developing models and materials preparing for off campus housing (tools, templates, et al).
Holistic Crisis Support and Case Management
- Date: Friday, April 26, 2024
- Time: 9:45-11am PST
Brief overview: Key elements will include lifting best practices in UC holistic care and management frameworks, mapping UC collaborations with COCs, AB1326 County Liaison interest and capacity to engage housing and homelessness, as well as exploring advances in UC case management software (2 examples).
Housing Advocacy, Opportunities, and New Directions
- Date: Friday, May 10, 2024
- Time: 9:45-11am PST
Brief overview: This session will assess both the January Governor’s budget and CA May Revise with a particular lense to student housing and homelessness legislation and budget allocations. In addition, we will invite Housing CA affiliates alongside strategic Higher Ed efforts from student associations to coalitions shaping regional, state, and federal advocacy for a robust conversation.
Campus Affiliates and Partners
End of Year Recap and Feedback for FY24-25:
- Date: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
- Time: 9:00-10:15am PST
Brief overview: This session will invite our village to reflect on the sessions to date, identify key actions and items for CEJA UC ENC to support and affirm new & continuing issues to prioritize in FY24-25 convenings.
Monthly UC Social Services Community Meetings
Amidst the last six years of state legislative bills advancing student essential needs there are ongoing implementation and feedback opportunities to further improve the student experience. These UC stakeholder focused monthly sessions invite professional staff, student leaders, and UC affiliates to the table to further engage our iterative efforts. To attend any one of the Spring meetings by following the zoom linked dates below.
For any questions please email Reuben Canedo at: elias_canedo@berkeley.edu
Thursday, March 7, 2024
