Updates
CCCS Findings: Community Violence is a Key Concern for Local Youth
Now that CCCS data collection is complete, project staff is reviewing findings to understand youth’s biggest challenges to success and co-develop strategies to help them address those barriers. One of the top challenges youth cited was the prevalence of community violence and the need for a greater sense of safety and security.
Welcome Trish Erwin to the South San Francisco CCCS Team!
We are excited to share that Trish
Erwin, Quality Improvement Manager in Family Health Services,
will be working closely with stakeholders in South San Francisco
(SSF) to implement the
CCCS priorities. Trish was instrumental in the SSF Clinic’s
participation in the Resilient
Beginnings Collaborative, a Genentech-funded initiative to
reduce exposure to trauma and increase resilience in the
pediatric s
Sharing Back Your Community Plans
As we move into Community Collaborative for Children’s Success’ implementation phase in South San Francisco and North Fair Oaks/Redwood City, the team continues to work with local champions. Together we are sharing findings and priorities from the planning process with the community and continuing to explore opportunities for plan implementation.
Phase I: Moving into Plan Implementation
South San Francisco and North Fair Oaks are off and running with implementation! Both communities held small implementation group meetings and are discussing opportunities to move forward with plan implementation. South San Francisco has unique interest in training for police officers and providing additional activities for children and young people. In North Fair Oaks, stakeholders have momentum for investing in mental health connections and preventative mental health measures.
Phase II CCCS community priorities are finalized!
Community planning is complete in East Palo Alto and Daly City! A
deep thank you to everyone who shared their time and thoughts in
these communities, and a huge shout out to the champions from
both communities who made the outreach and engagement
possible!
And now the moment we’ve all been waiting for! The top East Palo Alto needs and
priorities and Daly City needs and priorities are available
at our website!
Looking Ahead to Implementation
Over the last year, almost 1,000 youth and family members in
South San Francisco, North Fair Oaks/Redwood City, East Palo Alto
and Daly City shared their thoughts on assets, barriers and
strategies to help make youth more successful in their
communities. We’re extremely grateful to community members for
engaging on these often difficult issues and are proud to work
together with the community to help implement the plans.
Daly City and East Palo Alto’s Strategies for Children’s Success
This month, the two communities of East Palo Alto and Daly City held their third Neighborhood Leadership Group meetings to prioritize top strategies to support children and families’ success. Draft plans will be compiled over the next month for review in the final community meetings on May 7 (EPA) and May 13 (Daly City).
Come Celebrate Art, Children and North Fair Oaks with Us!
The NFO native, Jose Castro’s beautiful mural featured on CCCS Action Plan is being celebrated with live music, food, family and fun on May 19th at 2nd Avenue and Middlefield Road. This is a neighborhood that is vibrant and believes in their children’s future. CCCS will have a resource table featuring the Action Plan the community developed with almost 200 voices of impacted youth and families from the neighborhood.
Join Us to Share Assets in Daly City and EPA
Share your knowledge and be a community leader by joining us at the next CCCS Neighborhood Leadership Group! We hope to get your best thinking on priority strategies and assets and resources available to support the communities’ top needs and aspirations. Please mark your calendars for the next meetings:
East Palo Alto and Daly City Engagement Updates
Community members from East Palo Alto and Daly City are continuing to meet as the CCCS Neighborhood Leadership Groups to prioritize needs, assets and strategies. On March 13 community members in East Palo Alto identified cost of living and gentrification, emotional trauma, racial inequities and not enough time with supportive adults among the highest priority community issues for youth.
Champions for Daly City
Claudia Melendez and Ethel Rodríguez are CCCS champions in Daly City and active parents at Woodrow Wilson Elementary where their children go to school. They talked with their fellow parents, neighbors and community members and shared their experiences in a recent interview.
Q: Tell us about yourself. What is your connection to Daly City?
Announcement of final plans for phase one CCCS communities – coming in March!
The North Fair Oaks/Redwood City and South San Francisco communities put in a lot of time and effort over the last six months to share their stories, experiences and expertise as we worked together to develop the neighborhood specific action plans to support children’s success. The final plans are being drafted into a brief now so they can be easily shared. We’re working hard to review the data provided by the community and draft a great plan worthy of all the priorities shared by the community!
East Palo Alto Champion Profile
We have launched community planning
in Daly City and East Palo Alto. One of the first planning
efforts is to partner with local leaders in identifying local
champions to work with their neighborhoods and in their
communities to bring their voices to the CCCS initiative. The
champions engaged in CCCS are truly special. They are experts in
their communities, with diverse backgrounds and experiences,
interested and invested in seeing their communities continue to
succeed.
Championing Children’s Success in East Palo Alto and Daly City
The Community Collaborative for Children’s Success (CCCS) communities of East Palo Alto and Daly City have begun meeting to identify top assets, issues and strategies to promote young people’s success. Our key connections to the community come through Champions, a group of community members who engage directly through surveys and small group conversations.
South San Francisco and North Fair Oaks Planning Winding Down
December marked the end of the community planning and engagement phase for North Fair Oaks-Redwood City (NFO-RWC) and South San Francisco. Neighborhood leadership groups in both communities met for a final time to elevate top priority strategies. Initiative staff will circle back to neighborhood leadership group members who have been engaged throughout the process to finalize priority strategies for the plan, so top strategies are not yet finalized.
Supporting Children and Youth in Daly City
On November 5, Daly City kicked off its Community Collaboration
for Children’s Success planning process in the cozy space of Daly
City Partnership’s facility Our Second Home. A diverse group
gathered to discuss the unique assets and challenges in Daly City
and began to lay the groundwork for the initiative, identifying
possible community champions and data collection strategies.
Prioritizing Neighborhood Strategies for Children’s Success
The communities of North Fair Oaks and South San Francisco are honing in on strategies for children and youth success! Through survey collection and small group conversations, Community Champions heard from over 400 children, youth and family members on their community assets, barriers to success, and ideas for strategies to remove barriers. At the final Neighborhood Leadership Group meetings for the two communities, the group will finalize the priority needs and strategies for their local Children’s Success plan!
South San Francisco and North Fair Oaks/Redwood City: Join Us to Strategize for Children’s Success!
At the upcoming Neighborhood Leadership Group meetings, we’ll have a chance to dive deep into the survey responses and look for important trends in the data. Based on the assets, needs and strategies identified in the surveys we will prioritize potential strategies to improve success for youth. This is an opportunity to learn more about the needs of youth in our communities and to collectively prioritize strategies for youth success, tailored to the individual communities. Please join us!
Do it for the Kids: Fill out our Survey!
We are still gathering input from youth and their families with experience in the County’s youth systems. Please share the survey link with your networks. This month, South City and NFO/RWC youth, parents, caregivers and residents shared their perspectives on assets in the community, barriers to success and strategies to support youth. Through almost 200 surveys collected so far, small group conversations and dream wall posters, community members are helping us understand how to help our young people succeed.