Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School Video

November 29, 2005

Follow the iterative planning of one of New Schools/Better Neighborhood's model joint-use, community-centered school building projects.

This 9-minute documentary follows the iterative planning of one of New Schools/Better Neighborhood's model joint-use, community-centered school building projects. Santa Monica Boulevard Community Charter School is reinvesting in its East Hollywood campus, and with NSBN's assistance, collaboratively master planning the school site with the goal of providing a safe anchor for SMBCCS's 1400 central american students and their families. The video highlights First 5 LA and Dell Foundation funded community-outreach meetings, as well as the professionally managed engagement of impacted parents, students, health professionals, school officials and local residents. This is an insider's view of NSBN's planning process - a process that ensures both full community engagement and that school facility capital dollars are leveraged to insure that a full range of family and neighborhood needs are met-- here access to quality health care and pre-k classes.

Link: View Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School Video