History
In 2001, the nonprofit organization, Camptonville Community Partnership (CCP) 501(c)3 was formed with the mission to support the health, education, economic and social well-being of Camptonville and regional residents of all ages.
CCP’s vision is: “We value Camptonville and the region as a rural place where people respect and value diversity, responsibly using their social and environmental resources to generate a sustainable, strong and healthy community.”
Camptonville Community Partnership has twenty-five years of experience in planning and implementing direct programs and services that support child-wellbeing including the “whole family approach” as a core functionality to preserve and build community capacity. Our community-driven work helps to build healthy communities for generations to enjoy. We operate directly with neighbors, business, associations, schools, non-profits foundations and agencies.
Here is a brief sketch of our heartfelt journey to assist our community to thrive from the inside out:
1995-present: Family Resource Center on Camptonville School campus, the only FRC in the Yuba County foothills and founding member of the Yuba County FRC Network.
1996-2006: Community Partnerships for Healthy Children (CPHC) Initiative: Asset-Based Community Building: training and implementation, Sierra Health Foundation.
1996-present: Volunteer Newspaper The Camptonville Courier CCP maintains this monthly publication circulation of 450. Free to Camptonville, available on-line at www.camptonville.com.
1996-present: Outreach Program Community-based support and enrichment activities for youth, to increase health, skills and reduce child abuse. YC CAPIT, PEI S/Y Behavioral Health.
1998-present: Yuba County Family Resource Center Network Founding member of the organization originally known as Yuba Community Collaborative for Healthy Children.
2000-2006: CanWORK Communities: funded through YC HHS. CCP created a participant driven advocacy approach to welfare-to-work that worked in the Yuba foothills. State/federal advocacy & testimony for welfare reform, included going to Washington DC 9-11-2001.
2001-present: CCP’s Health Advocacy Department CCP represents the rural community voice to decision makers through health leadership action in numerous county & state committees.
2004-present: YCCC Yuba County Children’s Wellness & Child Abuse Prevention Council Community and CBO Chair, 3 years as Council Chair.
2001-present: 1,2,3 Grow with parents Early Childhood Enrichment/School Readiness, First 5 Yuba County.
2007: First Smiles Dental Program CCP pioneered county-wide First Smiles Dental Program. Teaching families the new dental paradigm regarding carries risk prevention and to this day offers that education along with carries risk assessments and dental screening in 1,2,3 Grow.
2008: Community Health Action Plan (CHAP), CCP led Camptonville residents to develop & present Camptonville Community Health Action Plan to Yuba Board of Supervisors. (The California Endowment, James Irvine Foundation, Sierra Health Foundation)
2008-2010: BOS Ad Hoc Health Committee presented Social Determinates of health findings, recommendations & Food Charter (Sacramento Region Food System) to the Yuba County Board of Supervisors.
2010-2012: Yuba County Health Committee
2011-2013: CCP School Wellness Policies (SWP), county-wide 5 school district training to develop awareness and SWP implementation affecting over 11,000 Yuba County students. Camptonville Community Partnership (CCP) 1,2,3 Grow Program
2012-2014: Provoking Leadership in Health Equity: Workshop series to build capacity of Yuba Co. leadership to address the social determinants of health, Sierra Health Foundation.
2012-present: Forest Biomass Business Center (FBBC) $30 million project. Working with local, county, state and federal stakeholders on the development of a community-driven forest biomass to energy plant and business center (USDA, Sierra Nevada Conservancy, Yuba Water Agency, CA Energy Commission and more).
2014-present: Defensible Space Program managing and implementing residential defensible space for the low income/disabled in Yuba foothills, (CalFire, PG&E) with Yuba Watershed Protection & Fire Safe Council.
2020: Census: Outreach to Yuba County Foothills hard-to-reach communities (Sierra Health Foundation)
2021–present: All Children Thrive Rural pilot to build community capacity/systems change to strengthen the community voice to be heard by decision makers in Yuba foothills. (Public Health Advocates, California Department of Public Health).