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Community-Developed Initiatives

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First 5 LA maintains a strong belief that members of individual communities are best suited to understanding the needs of their neighborhoods. Likewise, we feel that community members are best suited to devise ways to address those needs. This understanding is reflected in the Community-Developed Initiatives program. This $100 million program is designed to assist a variety of community-based organizations, health agencies, and educational institutions to provide up to five years of services and programs to children ages 0-5 and their families.Community Developed Initiatives target a wide range of outcomes through interventions in health, early learning, and family safety/support. Project types include:

  • Access & services
  • Family literacy
  • Provider education/training
  • Child care services
  • Family safety

Grantees/Services

Learn more about Community-Developed Initiatives grantees and the services they provide:

  • 1736 Family Crisis Center

    The agency provides case management, counseling services, domestic violence services, family support services for low income families, runaway services, emergency and transitional shelter for battered women and their children, shelter for runaway/homeless youth, and welfare-to-work support services.

  • Child Care Information Service

    The agency provides child care information and referral services, child care subsidies, literacy programs and technical assistance services.

  • Child Educational Center

    The center offers child care for children of JPL and Caltech employees and residents of the surrounding communities of Glendale, La Canada, Montrose, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and Sunland-Tujunga.

  • Childrens Hospital LA

    This facility provides family planning services, HIV/AIDS services, hospital services, mental health services, substance abuse services, and welfare to work services for youth in Los Angeles County.

  • Citrus Valley Health Partners

    The medical center provides hospital services for people of all ages in the San Gabriel Valley area.

  • Connections For Children

    The agency provides child care information and referral, financial assistance, and technical assistance to individuals on the Westside and South Bay communities of Los Angeles County.

  • Crystal Stairs, Inc.

    This agency provides business services in support of those who wish to provide licensed child care in their homes within the service area, and child care information and referral.

  • Eisner Pediatric and Family Center

    The center provides health services for people of all ages in Los Angeles.

  • Excel Family Intervention Program

    The agency provides foster care services for children and families in Los Angeles County.

  • Harbor Interfaith Services, Inc.

    The agency provides advocacy services, emergency food, employment services, information and referral and shelter for people who live in the South Bay area.

  • Huntington Memorial Hospital

    The facility provides hospital services for people of all ages and weight management programs for families.

  • Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park - Department of Pediatrics

    The medical centers provides 24 hour emergency services, health education and safe havens for abandoned newborns.

  • L.A. Gay & Lesbian Service Center

    The center provides administrative services, HIV/AIDS services, a multipurpose center, and substance abuse services for gay men and lesbians in Los Angeles.

  • LA Biomed

    This agency administers the WIC program at ten sites for residents of the Compton, San Antonio, South, and Southeast Health Districts of Los Angeles County.

  • LA Child Guidance Clinic

    The clinic provides mental health services for youth and young adults and welfare-to-work support services for the families of TANF recipients from two locations; see site list for details.

  • Memorial Women's Hospital/Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

    The agency provides family planning services and health services for women of all ages in the Long Beach area.

  • Public Health Foundation Enterprises- WIC Program

    This is an administrative office of WIC.  This agency administers and refers to WIC programs at 60 sites throughout Los Angeles County.

  • Southern California Association for the Education of Young Children

    Southern California Association for the Education of Young Children is a regional organization dedicated to nurturing the growth and development of early childhood leaders.

  • The Heart Touch Project

    The Heart Touch Project is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the training and delivery of compassionate and healing touch to homebound or hospitalized, men, women and children.

  • The Help Group Child and Family Center

    The center provides services for residents of the San Fernando Valley, greater Los Angeles and the South Bay.

  • Union Station Foundation

    The agency provides services in the Pasadena area.

  • Watts Labor Community Action Committee

    The agency provides a homeless support services access center and shelter services, primarily for families who live in Los Angeles zip code 90059.

  • Wilmington Community Clinic

    The clinic provides health services for residents of the Harbor area.

  • YMCA of Greater Long Beach

    The organization provides administrative services for child care and recreational programs for youth, adults and families in the Greater Long Beach Area.