About Us – North State Together: A Collective Impact Partnership
Connect, Collaborate, & Contribute to Cradle to Career Success
Our Vision: A thriving North State built on the educational success of every child from cradle to career.
Our Mission: To increase community vitality by increasing educational access and success in the North State through local solutions within a regional support framework.
Our Values: We are driven by our core values:
- Community Driven: We believe in the power of local solutions within a regional support framework.
- Data Driven: We use data to make decisions.
- Equity Driven: We seek to align community resources, strategies, and interventions to ensure equity of opportunity for ALL.
- Relationship Driven: We build strong relationships between cross-sector partners and community members built on trust.
North State Together is a regional network of cross-sector partners who have come together to strengthen educational outcomes from cradle to career for ALL in far Northern California. North State Together serves as the backbone organization providing support to five county collective impact networks: Reach Higher Shasta, Expect More Tehama, Advancing Modoc Youth, Trinity Together Cradle to Caree
r Partnership, and Cradle to Careers for Siskiyou. Our backbone support includes guiding the overall regional vision and strategy, establishing shared measurements, building public will, supporting aligned activities, advancing policy and mobilizing funding, all within a regional support framework.
North State Together backbone support staff includes Kevin O’Rorke, Jamie Spielmann, Susan Schroth, and James Crandall.