First 5 Alameda County
Data Profiles

First 5 Alameda County is an innovative public entity created in 1998 that helps young children grow up healthy and ready to learn during the most important time in their development. With more than two decades of experience funding innovative programs and advocating for policies, First 5 produces better futures for children. We've been grateful to partner with First 5 Alameda County as well as their four Neighborhood Ready for School grantees over the past year. These grantees include Lincoln Families, Roots Community Health Center, the San Antonio Family Resource Center, and the Union City Family Center.

In 2022-2023, First 5 invested more than $3 million in four neighborhoods across Alameda County—three in Oakland and one in Union City—and brought on our team at Cities & People Advisors to facilitate a strategic work planning process specific to the initiative to help identify areas of opportunity. We worked in partnership with the four community partners to create four year work plans and new data profiles showing the impact of their work and ensuring that there is a clear and defined path forward.

Our collaboration allowed us to listen deeply to our community partner’s concerns and questions, and to support them to establish a set of goals with individual steps, timelines, and clear expectations around contributions and roles from both staff at First 5 as well as community partners.