Community Schools can bring together community resources, community-based learning strategies, and shared decision-making to increase the engagement of students, families, staff, and community members in student achievement. For more, see https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/gs/hs/ccspp.asp

Families' First and other prevention efforts can bring family-facing organizations together in service of community wellbeing and preventing families from requiring Juvenile Justice or Child Welfare Services. For more, see https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/ffpsa-part-iv/ffps-program

Child care is infrastructure that allows parents to work and economies to thrive. High-quality early childhood education leads to children's success in school and life while boosting families' economic security.

Family Resource Centers are community hubs for family wellbeing, children's healthy growth and development, civic engagement, and community transformation. For more, see https://www.nationalfamilysupportnetwork.org/family-support-programs

To be most effective, case management and navigation services are guided by intentional, relational approaches that support clients' personal growth, systematic closed-loop follow-through, and clear data collection and reporting.

Understanding the gap between the services available and needed provides important data for strategic planning and allocation of financial and human resources.

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) efforts use data "as a flashlight not a hammer" and are collaboratively developed and leveraged. Ideally, they are based on a logic model or driver diagram and include a dynamic cycle of planning, informal and formal review, and iterating forward.