CCCS Core Team
The Community Collaborative for Children’s Success (CCCS) Core Team, made up of 10 partner organizations, has been serving and cross-collaborating in the Redwood City and North Fair Oaks communities since 2023. We convene to address gaps that community members and local data have identified as priority areas. We work toward long-term systems change and improving the quality and access to direct services.
We envision a Redwood City and North Fairs Oaks where all low-income youth and families are healthy and have the power to shape their own future
Our Indicators
Our five indicators measure broad community conditions. We use these indicators to measure how we’re doing as a community and to hold our collaborative accountable to our vision.
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We measure connection to a caring adult through the California Healthy Kids Survey. Learn more about the CHKS data here.
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We use the American Community Survey (ACS), a demographic program conducted by the US Census Bureau, to track the employment/unemployment rate.
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We measure youth optimism through the California Healthy Kids Survey. Learn more about the CHKS data here.
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We use the San Mateo County All Together Better Dashboard to track the rate of children living below 200% of the poverty level. Learn more here.
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We use the American Community Survey (ACS), a demographic program conducted by the US Census Bureau, to track the educational attainment rate of youth ages 18-24.
jobs for youth. To support both the youth and the community based organizations, our CCCS Youth Employment Subcommittee developed two toolkits. One toolkit is to support organizations in hosting youth, while the second is meant to support youth in navigating their job experience—which for many, is their first!
What We’re Working On
For the last 3 years, we’ve redistributed grants we’ve received back into the community. Beginning in the Spring of 2024, we launched our Youth Employment Grant Opportunity, where we put out a request for applications to our CCCS members. Through these efforts, we’ve partnered with 12 community based organizations to create
Watch our first Cafecito on mental health!
Service Areas
Members of the collaborative provide a range of services within their organizations
Support for our most vulnerable populations
Youth Employment
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Collaborative Members
Education and workforce development
The 2026 cohort at their orientation.
Additional members of the 2025 cohort.
Youth development
2025 SAL Youth, 3 of which were apart of our cohort.
Community Gatherings
Our Core Team's Community Gatherings Subcommittee was established with the goal of completing six (6) community Cafecitos to share and highlight existing resources available to community members. We are pleased to report that this goal has been fully achieved! The six Cafecitos focused on:
Mental Health: Held on August 20th, 2025, in collaboration with Alcove, One Life Counseling, and SMC BHRS.
Intro to CCCS: Held on May 6th, 2026, with Core Team members as panelists
Adults & Social Media: Held on May 13th, 2026, with Core Team members as panelists
Youth & Social Media: Held on May 20th, 2026, with Core Team members, two youth, and a YLI representative present
Safe & Caring Adults: Held on May 27th, 2026, with Core Team members and a panelist from YMCA
Continuing Education & Pathways to Economic Mobility: Held on June 3rd, 2026, with Core Team members and Upward Scholars students as panelists
Basic needs services
Click on our collaborative partners’ logos to learn more about them!
Family & parent support
We are a proud Accountable Community for Health (ACH)—and the only ACH in San Mateo County! We were awarded the ACH designation as a result of becoming a part of the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative. Learn more about CACHI and the ACH model here.