California Partnership Research Articles

Toward a justice approach to emergency food assistance and food waste: Exploring pantry–urban gardener partnerships in California's Santa Clara County

The 60,000 food pantries in the United States are well known for charity-based emergency food assistance and edible food recovery, serving 53 mil­lion people in 2022 (Feeding America, 2023a). Thousands of urban gardens emphasize vegetable production and food justice, but lack strong con­nections to food pantries. We explore how food pantries and urban gardens could partner to trans­form pantries into distribution sites that also become food justice education and organizing spaces. To assess this potential, we engaged in par­ticipatory action research with a leading social ser­vices provider that offers programs supporting both organized urban gardeners and a large urban food pantry in San Jose, California. We conducted and analyzed 21 interviews with food pantry volun­teers and urban gardeners affiliated with the same agency, and eight interviews with other urban gar­deners and food pantry staff from external organi­zations. We found that while both food pantry vol­unteers and urban gardeners expressed concerns about increasing healthy food access and reducing food waste, pantry volunteers were often unfamil­iar with food justice and uncomfortable talking about race and culturally rooted food preferences. These findings were similar with the informants from external organizations. To support urban gar­dener and food pantry volunteer collaboration, we developed a food justice approach to emergency food assistance and food waste management in which both groups co-create onsite vermicompost­ing infrastructure and partner with a university to design a training program focused on diversity, jus­tice, and systemic change.

Life itself under contract: rent-seeking and biopolitical devolution through partnerships in California’s strawberry industry

Following the legal demise of sharecropping in California’s strawberry industry, shippers and other intermediaries began to forge contractual ‘partnerships’ with former farmworkers and ranch managers, providing financing and market access, while giving these new growers responsibility for hiring labor and paying other expenses. Within an array of contracting arrangements, these operate in the worst of all worlds with many expenses returning to the shipper and little possibility of upside reward. Yet these arrangements are touted in the name of helping former farmworkers become farmers. Building on the literature on contract farming, this contribution discusses the ability to obtain rents as an under-recognized advantage of contracts for shippers, which further compromises the livelihoods of growers, especially those in ‘partnership’ arrangements who are particularly squeezed. This paper then suggests a further advantage to shippers: the ability to devolve biopolitical responsibility to growers. Growers are put in the impossible position of having to produce healthy berries at low cost while protecting human health through enhanced fumigant regulation. Partner-growers who tend to farm in poor ecological conditions are in the worst position to meet these competing imperatives. Shippers, however, are able to take the high road by claiming to move beyond pesticides.

California’s Title IV-E Partnership: A Statewide University–Agency Collaboration—Characteristics and Implications for Replication

University–agency partnerships funded by Title IV-E encourage students to enter the child welfare field by providing student stipends, thus supporting child welfare agency workforce development. This article examines the literature and historical roots of Title IV-E and other partnerships, identifies common structures and outcomes, and discusses the extent to which a structured development and change process supports the California partnership’s core mission to integrate the education and practice communities in child welfare. The partnership is teleological in nature, using a social exchange approach to advance mutuality and a full spectrum of benefits for universities and agencies. Models and best practice elements are presented as examples of how university–agency partnerships may enhance child welfare service delivery.

The promise of community-based participatory research for health equity: a conceptual model for bridging evidence with policy.

Insufficient attention has been paid to how research can be leveraged to promote health policy or how locality-based research strategies, in particular community-based participatory research (CBPR), influences health policy to eliminate racial and ethnic health inequities. To address this gap, we highlighted the efforts of 2 CBPR partnerships in California to explore how these initiatives made substantial contributions to policymaking for health equity. We presented a new conceptual model and 2 case studies to illustrate the connections among CBPR contexts and processes, policymaking processes and strategies, and outcomes. We extended the critical role of civic engagement by those communities that were most burdened by health inequities by focusing on their political participation as research brokers in bridging evidence and policymaking.

Patient Safety First … a California Partnership for Health

In California in 2009, Anthem Blue Cross joined forces with three regional hospital associations (RHAs) and an independent evaluator in an initial three-year, $6-million effort to address patient safety. During Phase 1 of the Patient Safety First... a California Partnership for Health program (2010-2012), more than 180 of the 395 hospitals represented by the RHAs shared and implementated best practices in learning collaboratives. The three initial areas of focus were (1) health care-associated infections-ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI); (2) sepsis mortality; and (3) perinatal care-reduction of elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks of gestation. To measure progress, the difference in the average rates from 2009 (baseline) to 2012 was calculated using data from hospitals that reported for every quarter from 2009 through 2012. The rate decreases-57% for VAP cases per 1,000 ventilator-days, 43% for CLABSI cases per 1,000 central line-days, 24% reduction for CAUTI cases per 1,000 patient-days, 26% reduction for sepsis deaths per 100 sepsis cases, and 74% for elective deliveries < 39 gestational weeks-were statistically significant at the .05 level, except for CAUTI. A cost-avoidance analysis showed that these reductions were associated with a saving of 3,576 lives and an avoidance of $63.8 million in costs statewide (not limited to Anthem Blue Cross members). The Patient Safety First program provides a long-term opportunity for collaboration among different health care sectors to share best practices to improve health care for Californians. Phase 2 will continue to addresssepsis and elective deliveries and add other initiatives.

California Partnership Law and the Uniform Partnership Act

California Partnership Law and the Uniform Partnership Act

Gay and lesbian partnership: Evidence from California

Much recent research on sexual minorities has used couples-based samples, which--by construction--provide no information on nonpartnered individuals. We present the first systematic empirical analysis of partnership and cohabitation among self-identified gay men and lesbians using two independent, large, population-wwbased data sources from California. These data indicate that 37%-46% of gay men and 51%-62% of lesbians aged 18-59 are in cohabiting partnerships (compared with 62% of heterosexual individuals in coresidential unions at comparable ages). Unlike previous research, we find that white and highly educated gay men and lesbians are more likely to be partnered, and we confirm that same-sex cohabiting partners in our data have demographic characteristics that are similar to California same-sex couples from Census 2000. We also present the first detailed analysis of officially registered domestic partnerships in California. We find that almost half of partnered lesbians are officially registered with the local or state government, while less than a quarter of partnered gay men are officially registered. We conclude with implications of our findings for couples-based research on gay men and lesbians, as well as recommendations for survey data collection.

Keith Douglass Warner, Agroecology in Action: Extending Alternative Agriculture Through Social Networks

In Agroecology in Action, Keith Douglass Warner describes and analyzes a number of important agroecological partnerships in the United States, with a focus on partnerships in California. The work examines the actors involved in these partnerships, along with the networks formed, the practices espoused, and the successes achieved over the years of their development and existence. The book also provides an account of how a variety of new, ecologically based farming and pest control methods have been developed as a result of farmers, scientists, public agencies, and nongovernmental organizations working together to address the environmental impact of conventional, chemical intensive farming methods. Warner defines agroecological partnerships as ‘‘initiatives using alternative extension practices at the field scale’’ (5), highlighting how these partnerships rely heavily on nontraditional modes of generating and sharing knowledge and how the local knowledge of farmers, and considerations for local ecologies, form the backbone of these partnerships. Warner argues that agroecology ‘‘must be facilitated by social learning’’ (3), defined as a process whereby groups of varied stakeholders engage in experiential research and knowledge exchange to protect and enhance shared resources. Agroecological partnerships, and their methods of generating and sharing knowledge, are contrasted with traditional extension practices that have tended to utilize transfer of technology or adoption/diffusion paradigms. Citing Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), Warner sets the stage for examining agroecological partnerships by outlining not only the failures of industrial agriculture but the influence that Silent Spring had on reshaping farming practices and political and scientific institutions. Warner credits Carson for laying the foundation for modern day agroecological partnerships and for inspiring students of the 1960s and 1970s who later went on to develop the subdisciplines of agroecology and conservation biology. With this backdrop, Warner utilizes the works of Latour (1987, 1999) and FitzSimmons (2003) in the field of Science and Technology Studies to examine the critique of Silent Spring and the dynamics of both agroecology and science in general. As proposed by Latour, and later adapted by FitzSimmons, science can be viewed as a circulatory system, with a beating heart at its center, creating and pumping knowledge through four different loops. These loops represent nature, scientists, end-users, and the public, and are all bound together by scientific knowledge at the center. As Warner points out, Silent Spring critiqued the science of its time for only engaging scientists and enduser and neglecting the ecological and social consequences of the scientific knowledge it created and diffused. In contrast, agroecological partnerships, as examined throughout Agroecology in Action, repeatedly and consistently attempt to engage many actors in the farming and scientific system to produce appropriate knowledge to reduce environmental harm, manage risk, maintain profits for growers and address public concerns about pollution and pesticides in agriculture. The bulk of Agroecology in Action examines the intricacies of a number of commodity specific agroecological partnerships in California and beyond. These examinations, in turn, lead to analyses of the institutional opportunities and constraints for agroecological partnership development, factors that influence the reduction of pesticide use, the characteristics and roles of actors who participate in partnerships, the various agroecological practices promoted B. McKelvey (&) University of Missouri Extension, Columbia, MO 65211, USA e-mail: McKelveyWA@missouri.edu

Comparison of Same-Sex Couples Who Were Married in Massachusetts, Had Domestic Partnerships in California, or Had Civil Unions in Vermont

This study compared 55 men and 78 women who had same-sex marriages in Massachusetts, 101 men and 120 women who had domestic partnerships in California, and 35 men and 86 women who had civil unions in Vermont, all in 2004. Couples were surveyed on demographic and relationship information, conflict, contact with family of origin, social support, politics, and leisure activities. There were few interstate differences, although couples in Massachusetts were more politically liberal and more sympathetic toward feminism than were couples in other states. There were, however, a number of gender differences. As compared to women, men were older and had waited longer to legalize their relationships; they were also more exclusively gay and less likely to have children. More than 90% of all couples were registered to vote and had voted in the last national election.

Collaborative Public Management and Democracy: Evidence from Western Watershed Partnerships

This article provides a framework for assessing the democratic merits of collaborative public management in terms of seven normative ideals: inclusiveness, representativeness, impartiality, transparency, deliberativeness, lawfulness, and empowerment. The framework is used to analyze a random sample of 76 watershed partnerships in California and Washington State. The study reveals the exclusionary nature of some partnerships and suggests that critical stakeholders are missing from many partnerships. However, representation was generally balanced. National and statewide advocacy groups were absent from most of these place‐based partnerships; public agencies were the primary source of nonlocal perspectives. Deliberativeness was relatively strong, indicated by the prevalence of educational and fact‐finding strategies and participants’ perceptions of respectful discussion and improved social capital. Half the partnerships had implemented new policies, and two‐thirds of stakeholders believed their partnership had improved watershed conditions, indicating empowerment.

Assuring the Quality of Long-Term Care Insurance Benefits Through Care Management

Despite recent improvements in long-term care insurance (LTCI) policies, concerns have been raised regarding just how well LTCI benefits actually meet elderly consumers' health and financial needs. In this case study, we examined the quality assurance (QA) provisions in a state-sponsored LTCI program, the California Partnership for Long-Term Care (CPLTC). CPLTC invests the primary responsibility for QA with care management networks, which assure quality services through care monitoring, quarterly service record reviews, and annual documentation of care manager clinical competence. Study findings suggest a number of limitations in existing QA policies and procedures, which can undermine the ability of care managers and other third parties to identify and rectify potential unmet needs among LTCI policyholders. These findings, while based on an intensive analysis of QA provisions in a particular, state-sponsored LTCI program, are likely to have implications for other LTCI programs and policies, most of which have less well-developed QA provisions.

Recreating Blackness-as-Failure Through Educational Reform? A Case Study of a California Partnership Academy

Vocational educational has long struggled with a reputation as a lower track and dead end for socially disadvantaged populations. Since the alarm call in the 1980s about the “forgotten half,” significant efforts have been expended to develop reform programs that provide disadvantaged populations viable options that would enhance their academic and economic prospects. However, considering the fact that such reform programs consist of a disproportionate numbers of Latinos and African Americans, how do we know that such reforms are not reproducing structures of racial domination? This article, an ethnographic study of a promising vocational education reform, examines race-making in the institutional organization, the representational practices, and the perspectives of students and teachers inside and outside this reform program. I argue that although the academy was a success story to some extent, it encountered negative stereotypes from its host school, while indirectly producing conditions that racially stigmatized its population. This poses questions about racial equity and the role of the institutional culture of the host school in implementing vocational reform programs.

Is Devolution Democratic? Assessing Collaborative Environmental Management

This paper proposes a normative framework for evaluating the democratic merits of collaborative policymaking processes in which authority is ostensibly devolved from higher levels of government to lower levels or from the public sector to the private sector. The framework casts the democracy of devolution in terms of six criteria: inclusiveness, representativeness, procedural fairness, lawfulness, deliberativeness, and empowerment. The framework is then applied to a random sample of 76 watershed-based stakeholder partnerships in California and Washington State. Although the study reveals potential problems related to the exclusionary nature of some partnerships and the nearly complete absence of national environmental groups, the overall picture is relatively positive. Representation was generally balanced, with environmental and economic stakeholders comparable in terms of number, costs of participation, and level of formal education. Stakeholders typically gave partnerships high marks for procedural fairness, and reported improvements in human and social capital, suggesting quality deliberation. Half of the sampled partnerships had implemented new policies or projects, indicating empowerment. Finally, the study detected no evidence of a diminished role for government in watershed management; federal and state agencies are among the most prevalent and influential participants in stakeholder partnerships.

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First satellite hydrogen station for California partnership

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Surveying Diverse Stakeholder Groups

This article evaluates three commonly used shortcuts for surveying multistakeholder resource management groups. Each shortcut had a significant impact on research results when tested in a survey administered to 48 watershed partnerships in California and Washington. Surveying only the coordinator led to a picture of the partnership that was more successful, trusting, and proenvironment. Surveying only a single stakeholder category (e.g., federal and state agencies) had a similar effect. Surveying only participants (and excluding knowledgeable observers of each group) resulted in higher estimates of the amount of disagreement among the stakeholders. Studies that fail to sample broadly may lead to an inaccurate or incomplete characterization of the success and dynamics of stakeholder partnerships.

California partnership announces 2002 goals

California partnership announces 2002 goals

Providing Training to Fathers in Early Literacy Through Community-University Partnerships

In the United States, mothers participate in literacy activities with their young children more often than fathers; however, fathers have recently begun to assume a larger portion of this role. This work describes Project DADS, a parent involvement-training project that serves fathers and other male caregivers interested in participating in early literacy activities. Project DADS provides seminars under community-university partnerships in the areas of early social interaction, school-home involvement, reading books, prewriting and writing, environmental print, storytelling, and technology. This article describes a recent community-university partnership and the preliminary results of training conducted under this partnership for 19 fathers in New Mexico. It also briefly describes the Project's father-training efforts in developing community-university partnerships in California.

Watershed Partnerships in California and Washington: Final Report for the Watershed Partnerships Project

This report documents the achievements of the Watershed Partnerships Project (WPP) at the University of California, Davis as of January 2002. Given the limitations of command-and-control regulation by federal and state bureaucracies, stakeholder-based planning and management has become an increasingly popular strategy nationwide for resolving local environmental conflicts. The primary goal of the WPP is to understand the factors affecting the ability of partnerships to resolve resource management controversies within the watershed and then to implement those decisions through restoration projects or other means. In the original proposal, we identified five related objectives, reprinted below. 1. To use established scientific methods — including explicit theoretical assumptions and intersubjectively-reliable methods of data acquisition and analysis — to improve our understanding of the factors affecting the ability of stakeholder negotiating processes to reach formal agreements and to implement those agreements. 2. To ascertain whether consensus-based negotiating processes have been more successful than other approaches in developing and implementing concrete projects. We also wish to explore their ability to achieve desired environmental and economic outcomes. 3. To compare the strengths and weaknesses of the three theoretical frameworks in explaining both the conditions under which stakeholder negotiations will be successful and their relative success in actually implementing restoration and monitoring projects. The three frameworks are (a) Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework for the management of common property resources, (b) Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith’s Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) of policy change, and (c) a framework for understanding the role that social capital plays in solving collective action problems, based on the work of Robert Putnam, James Coleman, and others. We intend to look at the same phenomena through multiple theoretical lenses (Platt, 1964; Stinchcombe, 1968; Allison 1971). 4. To provide concrete guidance to agency managers about how they might assist local partnerships, and how to decide when to support partnerships and when to simply leave them alone. Collaborators responsible for allocating restoration and bond monies in California already use the UC Davis watershed groups and projects databases underlying this proposal, and plan to take advantage of our results to improve evaluation of future stakeholder-driven proposals. 5. To identify which watershed characteristics are most amenable to rehabilitation.

Vocationalism ReconsideredSchooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946. Herbert Kliebard

Previous articleNext article No AccessReview EssayVocationalism Reconsidered Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946. Herbert Kliebard Harvey Kantor and Robert LoweHarvey Kantor Search for more articles by this author and Robert Lowe Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Education Volume 109, Number 1Nov., 2000 Sponsored by the Penn State College of Education Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/444261 Views: 3Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2002 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Alexander W. Wiseman The Impact of Student Poverty on Science Teaching and Learning, American Behavioral Scientist 56, no.77 (Aug 2011): 941–960.https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764211408861Annegret Staiger Recreating Blackness-as-Failure Through Educational Reform? A Case Study of a California Partnership Academy, Equity & Excellence in Education 38, no.11 (Feb 2005): 35–48.https://doi.org/10.1080/10665680590910860