The Fullerton Collaborative addresses the following problems:  needs of at-risk youth and families; gang prevention; child safety issues; lack of health care access; childhood obesity and lack of fitness; racial divisiveness and isolation; poor educational performance.

The Fullerton Collaborative addresses these challenging community issues by community leadership development, building and deepening relationships, leveraging assets of constituent groups; seeking funding for specific programs and providing a venue for collaboration.  Some specific examples of the work of this team include:

• Obtaining approximately $3 million in grant funding to establish Even Start, and Healthy Start Programs, which have served over 1600 families.
   
• Developing and implementing a community building initiative to provide youth and adult leadership development for a group of low-income residents. This group has worked with the city on developing and implementing a vision for a family-friendly neighborhood.
   
• Saving a summer youth program from terminating by enlisting collaborative partnerships to support individual pieces of it serving 300 youth in the last three years.
   
• Implementing a citywide event, Faces of Fullerton designed to bring the diverse communities of Fullerton together.  In 2004 this event served over 3,000 people with 70 diverse organizations participating.
   
• Obtaining funding through Community Block Grant funds to relocate and enlarge a Community Center at Richman Park.
   
• Obtaining a donated city modular unit to use as a Family Center for the Healthy Start Program at Nicolas Junior High.
   
• Obtaining $1,235,000 in funding for after school programs serving 1250 children in nine elementary schools and two junior highs. This is an increase of 200 children and $28,000 from the 2003-2004 school year. Encouraged the implementation of a fee based after school program in the Fullerton School District.
   
• Worked collaboratively with the City, School District and St. Jude Medical Center to bring a Neighborhood Health Center to Richman Park.
   
• Implementing a Project Fit America Program at four schools in low- income target areas serving over 2,500 students. (A Collaborative effort between St. Jude Medical Center, the Fullerton School District and the City of Fullerton.)
   
• Implementing a Pediatric Asthma Prevention and Treatment Program focused on leadership development and community organizing around sub-standard housing conditions that impact asthma in the low- income immigrant community of West Fullerton.
   
• Working with Korean leaders in the community  to encourage more involvement in  Fullerton . (Koreans make up 14% of Fullerton)
   
• Facilitating two dental clinics each year, which serve approximately 200 students and educate parents on dental hygiene.