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October 20, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CSU Dominguez Hills New Child Development
Program
Receives Head Start Grant
Partnership with Long Beach City
College and Long Beach Unified School District
(Carson, CA) — The
Child Development Program at California State University, Dominguez
Hills
has been awarded the first year’s installment of a five-year
renewable $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, Administration for Children and Family. The
first year grant award is for $261,235.
The Higher Education Advancement Delivering
Success through University Partnerships (HEADS UP) grant seeks
to increase the number of Head
Start educators earning baccalaureate degrees. CSUDH Professor
Anupama Joshi said the grant will be used to recruit current and
future Head Start teachers into the Child Development Program and
provide them support once they are students in the form of scholarships,
advisement and technology. The university will partner with the
Child and Adult Development Department at Long Beach City College
and Long Beach Unified School District’s Head Start program
on this endeavor.
“This grant speaks to our university’s focus on serving
our community,” said Joshi, who is the Child Development
Program coordinator and will serve as the grant’s project
director. “We establish partnerships not only with other
academic programs, but also with agencies that serve our community
and hire our students. It is really wonderful how all the pieces
came together.” The award of the grant comes just a year
and a half after the College of Health and Human Services launched
its baccalaureate
degree program in child development, and is the second grant the
program has received. Last year it was named a co-awardee along
with Long Beach City College’s Project RISE on a $350,000
grant from Los Angeles University Preschool.
Enrollment in the program
has grown from four students in January 2007 to 250 this semester.
Joshi said this interest reflects a
growing need for early childhood educators, family and child
counselors and child advocates to have a strong background in child
development. “We are very excited about the opportunities to make a meaningful
impact in preparing child development professionals,” said
College of Health and Human Services Dean Mitch Maki. “Professor
Joshi has done a wonderful job in positioning CSU Dominguez Hills
to be able to help serve both the career goals of our students
and the pressing needs of the geographic community.”
For more information about the CSU Dominguez Hills Child Development
program, visit http://www.csudh.edu/hhs/childdevelopment/ or call
(310) 243-2029.
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CSU Dominguez Hills -- California
State University, Dominguez Hills is a highly diverse,
urban university located in the South Bay, primarily
serving the
Los Angeles metropolitan area. The university prides itself
on its outstanding faculty and friendly, student-centered
environment.
Known for excellence in teacher education, nursing, psychology,
business administration, and digital media arts, new degree
programs include computer science, criminal justice,
recreation and leisure
studies, social work, and communication disorders. On campus
is the Home Depot Center, a multi-purpose sports complex
that hosts
world-class soccer, tennis, track and field, lacrosse, and
cycling.
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