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 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.

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.

  • We measure connection to a caring adult through the California Healthy Kids Survey. Learn more about the CHKS data here.

  • We use the American Community Survey (ACS), a demographic program conducted by the US Census Bureau, to track the employment/unemployment rate.

  • We measure youth optimism through the California Healthy Kids Survey. Learn more about the CHKS data here.

  • 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.

  • 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!

The Core Team at our January 2026 annual retreat.

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:

  1. Support for our most vulnerable populations

  2. Education and workforce development

  3. Youth development

  4. Basic needs services

  5. Family & parent support

Youth Employment

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Watch the rest of our Cafecitos here!

Collaborative Members

  • In April of 2023, SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund) began a relationship with RWC Together to go after the Children’s Collaborative for Children’s Success (CCCS) Plan. With the commitment of community-based partners who now form our Core Team, we went through multiple rounds of interviews to land a grant through SV2 to activate the CCCS Plan.

  • After landing the grant, we hosted a Community Impact Night in collaboration with SV2 where we asked community members and stakeholders to vote for their top three strategies for community improvement, as identified in the Neighborhood Action Plan. The community’s priorities were: more mentorship opportunities for youth, more youth jobs, and more early childhood education opportunities. From there, we worked on creating more employment and advisory opportunities for youth, connecting them to caring adults, and forming the Early Childhood Working Group.

  • In July 2023, we landed the California Accountable Communities for Health grant, a state-level grant through the Department of Health. The funds were used to augment our youth violence prevention work.

  • To ensure we were being guided by. the most accurate and up-to-date data, we re-administered the survey that was used to inform the Neighborhood Action Plan. We collected over 600 survey responses, including those from our hardest to reach community members. The findings reaffirmed our work: youth want more opportunities for employment, mentorship, and belonging. You can read more about the data here.

  • To ensure accountability to each other and our community, the Core Team spent a year creating a governance structure, including member roles and responsibilities and the creation of two subcommittees to accomplish our goals.

  • To achieve our goal of systems transformation, a long-term process, our collaborative went through the Results Based Accountability (RBA) framework to align on a long-term vision, identify measurement indicators, and work on a 5-7 year plan.

The 2026 cohort at their orientation.

Additional members of the 2025 cohort.

Our Milestones

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:

  1. Mental Health: Held on August 20th, 2025, in collaboration with Alcove, One Life Counseling, and SMC BHRS.

  2. Intro to CCCS: Held on May 6th, 2026, with Core Team members as panelists

  3. Adults & Social Media: Held on May 13th, 2026, with Core Team members as panelists

  4. Youth & Social Media: Held on May 20th, 2026, with Core Team members, two youth, and a YLI representative present

  5. Safe & Caring Adults: Held on May 27th, 2026, with Core Team members and a panelist from YMCA

  6. Continuing Education & Pathways to Economic Mobility: Held on June 3rd, 2026, with Core Team members and Upward Scholars students as panelists

Click on our collaborative partners’ logos to learn more about them!