The California Simulation Alliance (CSA) serves as a statewide voice for simulation in nursing and health care education. To receive newsletters or become part of an alliance, contact KT Waxman, .  CSA goals include:

Providing a home for best practice identification
Information sharing
Faculty development
Equipment/vendor pricing agreements
Space planning
Scenario development
Sharing and partnership models
Inter-organizational research via a statewide research committee
A voice for simulation in Sacramento

There are currently six statewide regional collaboratives within the CSA:

• Rural Northern Area Simulation Collaborative (RNASC):  Becky Damazo: 
• Capital Area Simulation Collaborative (CASC):  Brenda Hanson-Smith at
• Bay Area Simulation Collaborative (BASC):  KT Waxman: 
• Central Valley Simulation Collaborative (CVSC):  Marie Gilbert: ; Leslie Catron: 
• Southern California Simulation Collaborative (SCSC):  Carolyn Orlowski: 
• San Diego Simulation Collaborative (SDSC):  Karen Macauley: ; Andrea-Jean Murphy: