an extensive inventory
of various laws & legislation,
policies & programs,
proposals & processes,
statements & reports -

altogether illuminating & demonstrating
that our faithful vision of ourselves,
our human nature & potential
has now proceeded far beyond philosophy & theory.

in fact, it has been translated into a pragmatic operational working agenda.

- John Vasconcellos -

• AB 3659 (Ch. 1065 of 1986) created the California Task Force to Promote Self Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility;
• "Toward a State of Esteem" - the January 1990 report of the California Self Esteem Task Force, which sold out (60,000 copies, the best seller in California State government publishing history);
• ACR 171 (Res. Ch. 149 of 1990) & AB 795 (Ch. 487 of 1991) - required the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, in conjunction with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and State Board of Education, to establish an advisory committee to conduct an in-depth
  study on implementing the recommendations of the Task Force to Promote Self Esteem& Personal & Social Responsibility;
  
• Coauthored the "National Self Esteem and Community Empowerment Act of 1993," and presented it to the U.S. Senate; -     SB 916 (Ch. 542 of 1997) - required "self esteem"  training for prospective foster parents and required the Department of Social Services to distribute materials about the importance of self esteem in its annual mailings to foster care parents;
• "Self Esteem" Essay - John Vasconcellos, 1995;
  

• AB 4492 (Ch. 1387 of 1976) - created the California Task Force on Natural Childbirth;
•  Its report, "Alternatives in Maternity Care" (December 1979)
• AB 3642 (Ch. 1645 of 1984) - required a study by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to explore the factors needed to provide healthy, humane births for California families;
• The ensuing report, "Alternative Birthing Methods Study" (August 1986);
  
• AB 1510 (Ch. 1393 of 1987) - required the Department of Health Services to develop a study plan to identify causes of infant mortality and morbidity in California, and authorized certified nurse midwives to participate in Medi-Cal perinatal programs as
  providers and to bill Medi-Cal for outpatient services;
  
• "California Task Force on Positive Parenting: Recelebrating Families" (established in November 1977) - to encourage healthier parenting, building healthier families and nurturing the growth and development of whole healthier children by raising personal
  and public awareness and to assist community efforts toward positive parenting;
  
• "White Paper on Positive Parenting" (January 1980);
  
• SB 305 (1999)/ SB 1348 (2000)
• (passed by Legislature but vetoed by Governor/s)
  
• mandated parenting education as requirement for high school graduation.

• AB 1415 (Ch. 1551 of 1969) – required all social studies curricula to include ethnic studies;
• AB 1002 (Ch. 886 of 1971) – authorized public schools to establish year-round school programs on a staggered basis;
  
• AB 2588 (Ch. 1050 of 1971) – authorized school districts to contract with private entities to provide drug education in public schools;
  
• AB 2590 (Ch. 1813 of 1971) – required the State Board of Education to make available to non-public elementary school students, free of charge, basic textbooks used in public schools;
• ACR 127 (Res. Ch. 184 of 1971) & ACR 53 (Res. Ch. 41 of 1975) - created and extended he Joint Committee on Educational Goals & Evaluation;
  
• AB 359 (Ch. 1343 of 1972) – authorized school districts to contract with private entities to provide venereal disease and drug education to students;
  
• AB 206 (Ch. 14 of 1973) – appropriated funds for rehabilitation and replacement of unsafe school facilities;
  
• AB 1062 (Ch. 1037 of 1973) – required the Department of Education to adopt a master plan for providing services to migrant children;
  
• AB 1267 (Ch. 995 of 1975) – prohibited corporal punishment of any pupil, unless prior written approval from the pupil’s parent or guardian is obtained;
  
• AB 1393 (Ch. 976 of 1975) – ensured funding for the Educationally Disadvantaged Youth Program;
  
• AB 3696 (Ch. 777 of 1976) – set forth goals of public schools in the Education Code that each child is unique and the purpose of the educational system is to allow each child to develop his/her potential;
  
• AB 2988 (Ch. 984 of 1978) – encouraged the Department of Health Services to conduct community child health and disability prevention programs in public and private schools;
  
• AB 1382 (Ch. 942 of 1981) – revised statutes regarding educational programs for migrant children;
  
• AB 3848 (Ch. 1590 of 1984) – required the Department of Education to collect information on current efforts of school districts to provide nuclear age education, and report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature;
  
• AB 3646 (Ch. 1471 of 1990) – created the Parents as Teachers Grant Program;
  
• AB 795 (Ch. 487 of 1991) - required the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, in conjunction with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and State Board of Education, to establish an advisory committee to conduct an in-depth study on implementing the recommendations of the Task Force to Promote Self Esteem & Personal & Social Responsibility;
  
• "Blueprints for a Golden State - K-12 Education (December 1997);
  
• Parenting Education:
  
  • AB 3031 (Ch. 1619 of 1984) - required the Department of Education to complete the curricula for family relationships and parenting education, and to make awards on a competitive basis to those school districts which have adopted the curricula;
  • AB 3646 (Ch. 1471 of 1990) – Parents as Teachers Grant Program;
    
• SB 508 (Ch. 42 of 2002) - was a clean-up bill to AB 961 (Steinberg - Ch. 749 of 2001), which implemented the New High Priority Grant Program for Low Performing Schools, administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) for schools who participate in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program (II/USP), with first priority being given to schools ranked in decile one of the Academic Performance Index (API);
  
• SB 1667 (Ch. 506 of 2002) - established the Double Your CASH Program to guide the development of school safety plans that assure a safe physical school environment, assure that every school is a safe accepting nurturing emotional environment and provide every pupil with resiliency skills;
• "Preventing Violence in our Schools" - by Dr. Michele Borba - prepared for the California Legislature at the request of JV (2002).

• AB 2127 (Ch. 1199 of 1970) & AB 2586 (Ch. 555 of 1971) – established and funded three pilot SHARE projects, in which college students provide volunteer tutoring services to language-handicapped and other elementary and secondary school students;
  
• ACR 78 (Res. Ch. 175 of 1971) – encouraged all higher education history curriculum to reflect ethnic minority contributions;
  
• 1972-73 - Legislative Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education +
  
• Report - "Report of the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education";
  
• AB 770 (Ch. 1187 of 1973) - created the California Postsecondary Education Commission;
  
• AB 836 (Ch. 984 of 1973) – established the California Mini Corps program to provide monetary allowances to select college and university students for providing services to disadvantaged and migrant children;
  
• AB 3973 (Governor's veto overridden in  1974) – enacted the California Community Service Fellowship Program;

1. AB 4190 (Ch. of 1974), AB 229 (Ch. 1012 of 1975) & AB 3790 (Ch. 986 of 1976) –  established and funded the operation of college campus child development centers;
   
   • AB 778 (Ch. 795 of 1975) – appropriated funds for scholarship programs for college students enrolled in preschool training programs;
   • AB 1031 (Ch. 1270 of 1975) – created the initial Cal-Grant program to provide needy qualified California students the economic wherewithal to enable each of them to pursue careers in California higher education;
     
   • AB 1478 (Ch. 801 of 1975) – required the California Postsecondary Education Commission to conduct a study of educational opportunity grant programs at UC, CSU and community colleges;
     
   • AB 2412 (Ch. 1017 of 1975) – provided funding for community college extended opportunity programs;
     
   • AB 3042 (Ch. 343 of 1976), AB 647 (Ch. 1201 of 1977), AB 3038 (Ch. 1216 of 1978) & AB 3232 (Ch. 860 of 1980) – expanded and funded the Cal-Grant scholarship program, and revised the membership and functions of the Student Aid Commission;
     
   • AJR 67 (Res. Ch.104 of 1976) – called for the simplification of the federal student aid program application process;
     
   • ACR 58 (Res. Ch. 120 of 1985) - requested the Student Aid Commission to establish a task force to simplify the student financial aid form;
     
   • 1987-90 - Legislative Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Education +
     
   • Report #2 - "Building California's Community Colleges" (January 1987);
     
   • Report #3 - "California Faces...California's Future: Education for Citizenship in a  Multicultural Democracy" (1989);
     
   
   
2. AB 1820 (Ch. 1245 of 1987) – created the California Human Corps, a statewide program enacted in the late 1980s, to encourage every student in California’s nine UC and 21 CSU campuses to engage in 30 hours of community service per year during her/his college career to remediate such issues as illiteracy, environmental contamination, alleviation of hunger and care for the elderly;
   
   • AB 1725 (Ch. 973 of 1988) - the magna carta of the California Community Colleges, establishing them as an equally precious partner in California's Master Plan for Higher Education;
     
   • AB 3100 (Ch. 973 of 1988) – required the CSU trustees to study the feasibility of constructing student housing that would meet the needs of students who have children;
     
   • AB 4071 (Ch. 690 of 1988) – required the California Postsecondary Education Commission to identify and address “educational equity” at UC, CSU and community colleges;
     
   • ACR 132 (Res. Ch. 145 of 1990) – urged the creation of a student exchange program between California and Eastern Europe;
     
   • JV's Blueprints for a Golden State - Higher Education (September 1998);
   
   

• AB 4492 (Ch. 1387 of 1976) - created the California Task Force on Natural Childbirth;
  
• Its report, "Alternatives in Maternity Care" (December 1979);
  AB 3642 (Ch. 1645 of 1984) - required a study by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to explore the factors needed to provide healthy, humane births for California families;
  
• The ensuing report, "Alternative Birthing Methods Study" (August 1986);
• AB 1510 (Ch. 1393 of 1987) - required the Department of Health Services to develop a study plan to identify causes of infant mortality and morbidity in California, and authorized certified nurse midwives to participate in Medi-Cal perinatal programs as providers and to bill Medi-Cal for outpatient services;
  
• AB 4481 (Ch. 1534 of 1974) required written consent for mental patients to undergo psychosurgery;
  
• AB 1222 (Ch. 1119 of 1977) - prohibited smoking in retail food establishments (not restaurants) during hours open to the public;
  
• AB 4178 (Ch. 1433 of 1976) and AB 4179 (Ch. 1434 of 1976) - required education in human sexuality for all health care providers (physicians, psychologists, family therapists & psychiatric social workers);
  
• AB 2917 (Ch. 779 of 1982) - established the "Friends Can Be Good Medicine" (or Wellness & Physical Fitness Act);
  
• Created the AIDS Budget Task Force (1985) to each year provide the Legislature with the advice of California's best diverse experts regarding the latest facts and figures of the AIDS epidemic and how much funding we should be appropriating to equip California to fully address the AIDS epidemic in the coming year;
  
• AB 4250 (Ch. 1463 of 1986) - removed the major legal and fiscal obstacles to research and development of an AIDS vaccine by providing that any manufacturer of an FDA approved AIDS vaccine sold or administered in California is liable for all proximately or legally caused damages by that vaccine;
  
• AB 974 (Ch. 1283 of 1987) - appropriated $500,000 to the UC Regents for Dean Ornish's research project which eventually demonstrated that heart disease can be reversed;
  
• AB 816 (Ch. 1287 of 1987) - created the AIDS Vaccine Research & Development Advisory Commission (composed of a wide array of experts in the field of the AIDS epidemic, which made (largely successful) annual recommendations for augmented appropriations in the State of California's annual state budget, for such purpose;
  
• AB 4031 (Ch. 861 of 1990) - allowed additional Californian drug manufacturers to be eligible for various state programs relative to AIDS vaccine research, compensation, and guaranteed purchase, thereby increasing the likelihood that an AIDS vaccine would be developed;
  
• SB 847 (Ch. 750 of 1999) - created the University of California Medical Cannabis Research Center (our nation's only such research endeavor), headquartered at the University of California, San Diego;
  
• SB 2100 (Ch. 660 of 2000) - allowed physicians to provide non-conventional treatment;
  
• SB 446 (Ch. 634 of 2001) - mandated all California insurers include covering (when approved by FDA) vaccines to prevent AIDS;
  
• SB 420 (Ch. 875 of 2003) - created the California medical marijuana distribution system.

• Chair of the Joint Legislative Committee for Review of California's Master Plan for Higher Education (1987-90) which produced as its final report, "California Faces . . .
  
• California's Future" - the 1st major state publication which graphically presaged the State of California's rapidly    approaching becoming a no-racial-majority state (by depicting on its cover 4   faces, 2 female & 2 male, 1 of each of our 4 major racial groupings;
  
• Co-chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Preparing California for the 21st Century
  
• whose 1st topic of focus was "the benefits of inclusion versus the costs of racism;
  
• SCR 103 (Res. Ch. 135 of 2002) - which embodied & adopted for the State & People of California the "Principles of Inclusion" - which laid down a series of principles which ought inform our every public (and personal) policy & practice regarding California's fully realizing its own promise by fully appreciating & nurturing the potential of each & all of our residents;
  
• The "Index of Inclusion" - invented by that same Joint Committee to Prepare California for the 21st Century, providing the State & People of California a series of benchmarks by which we could annually assess our own progress toward such self-realization, as a state & as a people.

• SCR 151 (Res. Ch. 134 of 1999) - proposed by that same 21st Century joint committee & adopted by the Legislature (on bipartisan votes in each/both house/s), featuring the language that "each human being is innately inclined toward becoming life-affirming, constructive, responsible & trustworthy";
  
• AB 1820 (Ch. 1245 of 1987) - created the California Human Corps, which strongly expected & encouraged every student in California higher education to engage her/him self each year in community service learning;
  
• The work product (hearings & reports) of the 2nd focused topic of the Joint Legislative
• Committee on Preparing California for the 21st Century - "the applications & implications of the emergence & convergence of the imminent cutting edge paradigm-changing technologies - biotechnology + quantum computers + nanotechnology.

• AB 236 (merged with SB 153 [Ch. 761 of 1977]) - the very 1st legislation anywhere on the face of planet earth which prohibited the use of aerosol sprays, to protect & restore & preserve our life-saving ozone layer;
  
• AB 859 (Ch. 874 of 1991) - the very 1st legislation anywhere on the face of planet earth which  prohibited the use of chlorofluorocarbons, as well for sustenance of our ozone layer;
  
• AB 3703 (Ch. 1045 of 1984) created the Renewable Resources Account to encourage 3rd party financing of energy projects at state-owed sites and the accelerated development of the projects where decent incentives are provided.

• AB 2932 (Ch. 1274 of 1982) - clarified that individually customized software was a service rather than a product (thus assuring its not being subject to the State of California sales tax);
• Created the Assembly Democratic Economic Prosperity Team (ADEPT I) (1991)
• which toured the State of California and consulted with more than 50 groups (the vast majority of which were business groups) to learn about the state of our state economy, and produced its findings and recommendations in its report - "Toward an ADEPT California" (1992);
• ACR 46 (Res. Ch. 119 of 1993) - encouraged the Legislature and Governor to implement the recommendations of ADEPT: convene an annual CA Pacific Rim Conference, meet with the Japanese government to explore international collaboration, and create a CA State Investment Partnership and CA Foreign Trade Office advisory teams consisting of foreign national business leaders to improve international coordination and allow CA to take full advantage of emerging foreign trade opportunities;
• AB 761 (Ch. 864 of 1993) - created the California Economic Strategy Panel (CESP) - to provide the state government & people of California an early warning detection system for impending trends & changes which needed attention so as to alert the State of California how it might best act, preserve & enhance the capacity of the California economy to sustain itself, further develop & prosper;
• Trade trips to Japan;
• "Toward a California/Japan Partnership Agenda" (composed in 1994) - the blueprint for an emerging super-partnership between the world's 2nd & 6th economies;
• AB 1859 (Ch. 1127 of 1994) - directed the World Trade Commission, in consultation with the foreign trade offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Taipei, to sponsor a biennial CA Pacific Rim Conference to bring together political, academic and business leaders of each of the Pacific Rim nations with business and political leaders in California
• AB 1859 (Ch. 1127 of 1994) - directed the World Trade Commission, in consultation with the foreign trade offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Taipei, to sponsor a biennial CA Pacific Rim Conference to bring together political, academic and business leaders of each of the Pacific Rim nations with business and political leaders in California
• SB 2189 (Ch. 668 of 1998) - provided a mechanism for small and start-up companies to secure venture capital funding;
• SB 1124 (Ch. 213 of 1999) - authorized online brokerage contract using digital signature technology;
• SB 1136 (Ch. 1056 of 2000) - changed the name of the cabinet Trade and Commerce Agency to the Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency;
• SB 1933 (Ch. 779 of 2000) - created the California Commission on Tax Policy in the New Economy to devise a long-term strategy for redesigning the state and local tax structure in California, eliminate needless complexity and duplication, and still nurture and expand the state's global leadership in key emerging industries;
• Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network (member, Board of Directors, since July 1996) - the premier model of regional public/private partnership & collaboration;
• Creating ADEPT II.

• Co-created "Self-determination: A Personal/Political Network" (mid 1970s) – boasted 3,000 members at its peak, who were dually committed to their own personal growing self-awareness and socially active political engagement;
• Co-created "Californians Preventing Violence" (1982) - a nonprofit community-based education program in Santa Clara County created to implement the findings and recommendations contained in the California Commission on Crime Control & Violence Prevention report, "Ounces of Prevention" which would enable persons at risk to prevent violence in their midst;
• Co-created "California Leadership" (1985-1993) – a nonprofit and nonpartisan enterprise that, recognizing California’s trend toward becoming a much more diverse state, sought to identify and train talented young women and persons of color to become future state leaders in a decision-making process that was “collaborative in practice, multicultural in representation, and proactive in problem solving”;
• Created the California Human Corps, a statewide program enacted in the late 1980s, to encourage every student in California’s nine UC and 21 CSU campuses to engage in 30 hours of community service per year during her/his college career to remediate such issues as illiteracy, environmental contamination, alleviation of hunger and care for the elderly;
• Established the Senior Volunteer Service Credit Program (AB 1772, Ch. 1199 of 1987) – a pilot program to match elderly volunteers with needy seniors and giving the volunteers bank credit to help augment their social security income;
• Created the Latino Advancement Project (1988-99) – a pluralistic, public-private partnership of Latino and non-Latino community leaders coming together to research, identify and address the barriers to developing and maintaining an indigenous societal structure and workforce in the Silicon Valley;
• Member of the Board of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley (since July 1996) - a regional, non-partisan voice and a civic catalyst for solutions to problems which impact all sectors of the community, by bringing together established and emerging leaders from business, labor, government, education and community organizations and involves citizens from throughout the region.

• Joint Venture: Silicon Valley (member, Board of Directors, since July 1996) - the 1st, and then the foremost, role model for regional public/private collaboration to regionally promote both economic prosperity & the quality of life.;
• In 1998 - created a bipartisan, bicameral CA Legislature Internet Caucus to identify the policy issues surrounding the Internet and advance the opportunities this technology provides to shape the California economy, education and quality of life.

• AB 23 (Ch. 990 of 1979) - created the California Commission on Crime Control & Violence Prevention - its report - "Ounces of Prevention" (1982);
• "Californians Preventing Violence" - a nonprofit community-based education program in Santa Clara County created to implement the findings and recommendations contained in the report, "Ounces of Prevention" which will enable persons at risk to prevent violence in their midst;
• AB 3936 (Ch. 1478 of 1984) - required the Department of Corrections to conduct a two- year pilot project to implement innovative education programs in juvenile hall, prisons and the youth authority;
• AB 3137 (Ch. 921 of 1986) - authorized the Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with public or private agencies to house and treat inmates afflicted with AIDS;
• AB 3145 (Ch. 1362 of 1986) - required the State Controller to make quarterly distributions to the Youth Authority from the Lottery Fund for purposes of implementing a system of employment preparation;
• AB 1291 (Ch. 1061 of 1989) - required CDC to consider the proximity of family when determining where to house a new state prisoner;
• AB 2386 (Ch. 4 of 1994) - created the Restitution Fund and Victim-Witness Assistance Fund to provide a stable source of funding for crime victim programs;
• AB 2949 (Ch. 1196 of 1994) - increased the automobile registration surcharge by $1 to provide a stable funding source for 350 new CHP officers to assist local police and sheriffs;
• SB 2108 (Ch. 502 of 1998) - appropriated $177 million to expand parole efforts and add prison beds - 2/3 of which must be drug treatment slots;
• SCA 8 & SB 1399 (2003-04) - requires the Department of Corrections to evaluate the educational, vocational and psychosocial level of development of every inmate, and to prescribe and implement for each inmate a smart, comprehensive rehabilitation program.

• AJR 65 (Res. Ch. 123 of 1982) - established a National Academy of Peace & Conflict Resolution;
• AJR 125 (Res. Ch. 133 of 1982) - declared a national Children's Peace Day on Thanks- giving Day, November 25, 1982, during which children will visit and thank their elected officials throughout the country for supporting peace and ask how children can help bring peace to the world;
• AJR 75 (Res. Ch. 190 of 1984) - proposed 100,000 person cold war student exchange;
• ACR 111 (Res. Ch. 104 of 1988) - established an annual Peace Day in California;
• ACR 132 (Res. Ch. 145 of 1990) - urged the CA Postsecondary Education Commission to study and design an exchange program, involving 5,000 college students, between CA and Eastern Europe in order to promote a relationship of mutual trust and understanding as an initial step towards world peace.

• AB 4249 (Ch. 827 of 1986) - included "Medicare-certified hospice services" as a covered benefit under Medi-Cal;
• AB 1772 (Ch. 1199 of 1987) - required the Department of Aging to establish a three- year pilot volunteer service credit program to match elderly volunteers with needy seniors and giving the volunteers bank credit to help augment their social security;
• SB 1052 (Ch. 699 of 1997) - authorized the sale of long-term care insurance with tax deductible premiums;
• SB 1061 (Ch. 631 of 1997) - simplified the nursing home admissions process;
• AB 910 (Ch. 948 of 1999) - established a Strategic Planning Initiative for Older Californians;
• Created a partnership agreement between the Senate Subcommittee on Aging & Long- term Care and the California Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics to assure the latter got twice the annual opportunity to provide the former with the latest research findings regarding the needs and the quality of life for California's rapidly aging population;
• SB 953 (Ch. 541 of 2002) - created our nation's most comprehensive humanistic blueprint for recognizing & appreciating & attending to needs of, & providing dignified opportunities for, California's senior citizens.

• January 6, 1989 - Assembly Speaker Willie Brown appointed JV to the newly-created California State Assembly Select Committee on Ethics, which was charged with the responsibility for undertaking a broad study and developing a complete program on ethics for submission to and adoption by the Assembly;
• the Ethics Committee report, "Conduct Becoming a Legislator" (August 1989);
• Co-authored Proposition 112, enacted into law in June 1990 by the people of California providing for the State of California Legislative Ethics Code (our nation's toughest legislative ethics program);
• AB 12 - combined with SB 87 of 1984 - providing for the full public funding of all campaigns of all state legislative + constitutional officer elections;
• SCA 14 - introduced in 2003 and now pending - seeking to improve both the reality & perception of honesty in politics - by reforming reapportionment (via a commission), campaign financing (publicly provided, so that candidates are beholden only to the public, rather than special, interest/s, moving our primary elections to September, confirming the right of independent & decline-to-state voters to participate in whichever primary election each of them chooses, modification of term limits, +++;
• SCA 19 (2004) - provides for extension of the voting franchise (though pro-rated as to count) to Californians 14 years of age & older.

• (Author of) "A Liberating Vision - Politics for Growing Humans" (published in 1979) - setting forth a critique of traditional culture politics & proposing a comprehensive agenda for a whole new humanistic faithful politics;
• Foremost leader (both intellectually & via practice & modeling) in politics & governance today in redefining the character of leadership
• Toward naming humanistic leadership (giving credit to James MacGregor Burns in his major work of the same name) - "Transformational Leadership"; +
• Toward a whole new definition of "leadership" (giving credit to David Cooper in his book, "Death of the Family") - the finest leader is that person inspires other persons to recognize, and then to realize, her/his innate capacity for becoming his/her own leader;
• Co-founder of the non-profit "California Leadership" (1985-1993), created as California was approaching becoming a no-majority state, for the purpose of identifying and providing a year-long intensive experimental program for promising emerging leaders, especially women and of the various racial backgrounds;
• Supporter of the California Mentoring Initiative, and active mentoring of new legislators and young leaders in other fields of public endeavor;
• Founder of the "John Vasconcellos Legacy Project" (created for the purpose of collecting and convening all the above initiatives into a coherent body of humanistic work that could more readily by handed down (upon his retirement from the California Legislature) to successor legislators, so as to make sustaining (rather than have individually dissipate & disappear) this entire body of humanistic endeavors;
• Co-founder of the major endeavor proceeding from the "John Vasconcellos Legacy Project, "The Politics of Trust," a whole new political movement whose mission is to translate humanistic psychology's faithful vision of ourselves, our human nature & potential into the entirety of our social & political realms, and to transform every dimension & aspect & relationship of each & all of our social & political realms according to humanistic psychology's faithful vision of ourselves, our human nature & potential.