Youth and Community Services

California faces unique challenges to achieving an accurate count — 75 percent of its residents are considered “hard to count” and have been historically undercounted in the census.

Cities should immediately begin planning for and implementing the required organic waste collection and edible food recovery services. This work includes assessing and securing adequate capacity for organics processing and edible food recovery, which can be done individually or in conjunction with counties, other cities and regional agencies.

Since October 2019, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company has cut power to Californians more than half a dozen times, with the smallest power shutoff affecting about 30,000 people and the largest affecting nearly 2.5 million. But cities have made it clear that this cannot be the new normal, and power shutoffs are in fact putting residents at real risk.

San Rafael asked city employees, “How would you design your department if you could create it today, rather than as it was created decades ago?”

Cities do not have to wrestle with this issue alone.

Explore the National Civic League’s Civic Index, a self-assessment tool.

How Thousand Oaks coped with a mass shooting and two major wildfires in a single day.

Rising rates of juvenile arrests spurred this effort.