UCLA Day with Local Government, is a conference where volunteers like you serve as UCLA's ambassadors to council members, county supervisors, their staff and  policy makers in Los Angeles, by enlisting the support of these audiences for UCLA's priorities.  If you would like to join us or have any questions, please contact David Broome, Assistant Director of Community & Local Government Relations .

To register for the event, please contact Manny Baldenegro at (310) 794-6815.

UCLA Day with Local Government GENERAL SCHEDULE:

• 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Delegate Briefing (training)
• 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Meetings with Legislators
• 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. UCLA in Downtown LA Reception

DELEGATE TALKING POINTS:

K-12 Education:

•  In the fall of 2009, a different and quite bold UCLA initiative in K-12 education began, the UCLA Community School. It joins UCLA's many established efforts to support, improve, learn from, and study K-12 public education through a community school initiative led by the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. The UCLA Community School, a partnership between UCLA, LAUSD District 4, and several community-based organizations, serves students in Kindergarten to Grade 5 and will expand next year to include approximately 800 students in Kindergarten through Grade 12. This opening is expected to relieve nearby overcrowded schools since it serves families in the neighborhood.

To promote trusting relationships, students will learn together with the same teacher for two years. All teachers are fluent in English and either Spanish or Korean, and several are fluent in all three languages. Instruction will be dual-language immersion, with students graduating with the ability to communicate in at least two languages.

The partnership brings together a vast number of resources and unites LAUSD teachers and administrators, the UCLA team of education faculty who trained many of them and helped develop the school's instructional programs, and community advocates. The UCLA team of education provides school management, curriculum development, and in-service trainings for teachers.

The school is located in the Ambassador Schools Complex, which will house five Pilot Schools serving both K-12 and 9-12 student populations.

Civic Engagement:

•  On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, the newly-established UCLA Volunteer Center launched its first ever Volunteer Day when close to 5,000 new students, and over 1,000 staff, faculty, and alumni participated in the restoration and beautification of eight sites throughout Los Angeles. The sites included: Griffith Park, Point Dume State Beach, the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Center, and five public schools within LAUSD: Gompers Elementary, University High School, Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, Kester Elementary, and Gratts Elementary.

•  The new Volunteer Center fulfilled a long-standing commitment by Chancellor Gene Block to enhance UCLA's engagement in public service and position the university as a national leader in volunteerism. At a time when volunteer participation is viewed increasingly as a national priority, UCLA is expanding its role to be a global catalyst for social change.

•  Building on our proud heritage of community service, our Volunteer Day was the largest community participation project in the university's history, and by most estimates the largest single-day volunteer event ever held by an educational institution.

UCLA in the Community

•  UCLA is involved in over 200 community programs and projects impacting every district in Los Angeles City and County.

•  Thousands of UCLA students, faculty, and staff take part in ongoing community projects that focus on children, youth & families; arts & culture; economic development; health and well-being.

•  UCLA's state funded K-12 outreach activities and college readiness programs prepare students for college. We also provide courses to assist teachers and principals in their work.

•  UCLA actively strengthens community and civic engagement through our Center for Community Partnerships.

•  To date, the Center has advanced over 180 intensive collaborations between UCLA and community based non-profit organizations to address some of the regions most pressing issues.

•  Since 2003, the Center has awarded over $4.9 million dollars to projects proposed by UCLA and Los Angeles non-profit organizations.

Sustainability:

•  The newly established Luskin Center for Innovation is an endowed center to solve problems that face Los Angeles everyday. Working closely with elected officials, community leaders, non-profit organizations, and businesses, the Luskin Center for Innovation will address the problem of Sustainable Environment and Pollution Reduction in Los Angeles through a mixture of scholarship, research, and community engagement. UCLA faculty and students will engage through the following core elements of the Luskin Center :

•  Luskin Scholars – A think tank of four to six Luskin faculty scholars to address the problem of sustainable environment;

•  Policy-Solution Grants – Mini grants to faculty and graduate students to conduct problem-solving research projects the will result in policy recommendations;

•  Luskin Innovation Internships – Graduate and undergraduate internships with elected officials; and

•  Luskin Speaker Series – In partnership with the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Luskin Center sponsors a speaker series the first Monday of every month.

CleanTech

•  In April 2009, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined by Chancellor Gene Block along with representatives from business, education, and government launched CleanTech LA, a collaborative partnership aimed to establish Los Angeles as the global leader in research, commercialization, and deployment of clean technology by leveraging the City's strongest assets.

CleanTech LA is developing a joint UCLA-DWP clean technology research center in downtown Los Angeles where UCLA will have a wind turbine research facility as part of the ongoing push toward sustainable energy. Projected to open in 2010, the lab will be one of kind in Southern California that will focus on developing stronger and more aerodynamic turbine blades.

The Goals of CleanTech Los Angeles are:

• Create jobs;
• Stimulate Demand for Green Technology; and
• Facilitate environmental solutions.

Health Care:

•  The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (RRUMC) opened on July 23, 2008. It delivers world-class medical treatment using cutting-edge technology in a compassionate, patient-focused environment. With 520 large, private patient rooms featuring accommodations for family members, wireless Internet access for patients and guests, multiple outdoor play areas for children and more, the new building maximizes personal attention and holistic healing. This is one of the first total replacement hospital projects to be built in accordance with the latest California seismic safety requirements as a result of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

•  The hospital encompasses the operations of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center , Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA and Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA.