We have developed numerous reports that explore many facets of our work. Often created in partnership with some of the most respected experts in their field, these reports offer actionable insights to help create a thriving Santa Cruz County.
2024-2025 Community Impact Annual Report
2024 - 211 Annual Report
Making The Invisible Visible - Santa Cruz County
Black/African American Health Snapshot 2020
United 2020 is Santa Cruz County's 5-year strategic plan to make meaningful, measurable improvements in the lives of people in our community by the year 2020. Developed by key leaders and experts in our county, United 2020 outlines key strategies that will help transform our community by addressing our most pressing needs:
- Preparing more youth to succeed in school and life
- Empower more families to be financially stable and self-sufficient
- Helping everyone to live healthy, responsible lives
To measure the community's progress toward the United 2020 goals, United Way of Santa Cruz County works with Applied Survey Research in Watsonville. Drawing from the researchers' analysis of local data including the Community Assessment Project, United Way tracks progress toward the United 2020 goals. United Way shares progress and reports with community program partners, philanthropists, corporate partners, volunteers and others to facilitate coordinated responses to the challenges.
What Gets Measured, Gets Done
United Way also leverages the data to align its work with efforts to help Santa Cruz County achieve the United 2020 goals - we want every dollar given and every hour volunteered to make the biggest impact possible in someone's life. United Way impacts Youth Success, Family Financial Stability, and Health by investing in exceptional local programs and developing initiatives that address key gaps.
Youth Action Network Community Dialogue Report
Disclaimer This report tells the story of YVPN’s Dialogue for Change Project that concluded in June 2019. The purpose of the report is to share why and how a dialogues model was implemented across Santa Cruz County to address community-law enforcement relations as they relate to safety, equity, and policing that works for all.
What is captured in this report represents the diverse voices and various perspectives of those involved in the process, and they may or may not reflect the opinions of report writers and project organizers. Additionally, recognizing the changing landscape of this complex relationship, the views expressed in the data and recommended ideas for action may or may not be reflective of how the dialogue participants feel today.
As one of the longest-running community assessments in the county, the Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project provides an in-depth look into our community's well being.
Over the past 3 years, the Community Corrections Partnership Community Education and Engagement Workgroup (CCP CEEW) has worked to develop the Santa Cruz County Blueprint for Shared Safety: Survivors at the Center. The CCP CEEW, which includes representation from justice, government, community members, service providers, and survivors of crime, came together on a monthly base to grapple with complex issues and topics related to public safety and crime survivors/victims.
Turning The Curve is our countywide strategic plan that offers recommendations on ways to address youth violence and taking success to scale.