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Zt-z, toward productive adulthood. Centers/Community Schools are: The programs within the Family Resource .:. After-school recreation and academic support and enrichment .:. Family Support services .:. Mental Health and Case Management services .:. School Readiness Home-Visiting .:. Health Insurance and County Benefits Enrollment .:. Referrals to medical health providers .:. Parent/Adult Education .:. Parent Involvement and Leadership .:. Recreation services .:. Child Protective Services Prevention and Early Intervention .:. Youth Leadership (Middle Schools only) Redwood City 2020 plays a critical role for the City of Redwood City by bringing in resources and providing a stable management structure for the City of Redwood City to engage on children and families issues. Redwood City 2020 has a small strategic staff that subcontracts the work to other providers (normally non-profits) that are best equipped to deliver the services, and provide appropriate professional development and human resources. Redwood City 2020 will continue to play an oversight and management role for the contract before you, Differential Response. When the State of California began a Child Protective Services reform effort, the County of San Mateo was selected as a pilot site. A critical piece of the reform, (also known as Child Welfare Redesign,) is the provision of services to families referred to Child Protective Services, but which are not found to involve any substantiated abuse (non-substantiated cases). This service component of the reform is called Differential Response. Nationally and locally, approximately 90% of the calls to Child Protective Services are non-substantiated cases. Traditionally, these cases do not receive any services, yet a majority of these non-substantiated cases are re-referred to the Child Protective Services and usually become substantiated cases. Given the number of re-referrals, Differential Response hopes to provide these families with prevention and early intervention services in order to prevent them from escalating to the point where they enter the child welfare system, and reduce the overall number of child welfare cases. Redwood City has the second highest number of child abuse referrals and substantiated child maltreatment cases in the County (East Palo Alto has the highest). The zip code 94063 (which includes North Fair Oaks) has the largest percentage of cases in Redwood City - representing 50% of Redwood City's cases.