Recognition and Achievements:

2006:  CLH is chosen as a participant in the Flintridge Foundation’s new Northwest ECHO program. Flintridge Foundation has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to deepen and expand its support services to nonprofit organizations in Northwest Pasadena. The federal Communities Empowering Youth grant is to build the capacity of community- and faith-based organizations to meet the needs of youth in at-risk circumstances. a 900,000 Federal Grant. Flintridge Foundation has identified a group of community- and faith-based organizations to participate in the new partnership called Northwest Empowering Communities, Helping Others or Northwest ECHO. Over the program’s three-year period, Flintridge will sponsor workshops, professional consultants, peer learning opportunities and specialized training to increase the sustainability and effectiveness of the participating groups. Services will focus on four critical areas: 1) leadership development, 2) organizational development, 3) program quality and 4) community engagement.

2006:  CLH begins to explore a partnership with writer Jervey Tervalon and writer/photographer Ibarionex Perrello and to prepare and fund Humanities based art and literary activities for the John Muir Youth Community.

2006:  CLH provides art and literacy activities for Scholastic’s Literacy Pilot program directed by Dr. Lisa Richards for Beyond the Bell, LAUSD.

2005:  CLH begins providing provides to High School Students as  a community partner of Mustangs on the Move at John Muir High School.

2005-2006:

“Exploring Identity and Constructing Community in After School Programs: The experience of the California Living Histories VOICES Program”.  Presentations are given at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Montreal(2005), UCLA Educational Conference, 2006, and Education Conference, Granada Spain 2006, by Maria del Pilar O’Cadiz, Ph.D.

2005: California Living Histories establishes Voices Press to publish a series of curriculum guides through specifically designed created for after school settings.

2002-2006: 

CLH’s executive director, Elizabeth Converse, is a member of LACOE Regional Advisory and Training Team, and a Writer and Trainer for the Collaborative After School Project(CASP), at Cal Poly Pomona.

1999-2003:

California Living Histories is identified by California Tomorrow as one of 10 exemplary practice programs for addressing diversity in after school.

CLH’s academic based enrichment curriculum is identified as  a Promising Practice in After School by the Academy of Educational Development in Washington D.C.

CLH is recognized as a model program by the Forum for Youth Investment.

The California Council for the Humanities provides grants for three CLH programs.