Download this colorful, kid-friendly PDF guide to staying safe during the COVID-19 pandemic starring First 5’s Potter the Otter! Available in the below languages (click to download):
Autism and Parenting: How to Help Your Child Thrive Autism is a broad range of conditions that influence how a person processes information, their sensory environment and how they interact with other people. While autistic people share some similar characteristics,...
Reading and Learning Activities: March 31 is César E. Chávez Day! We celebrate the birth and legacy on César Chávez Day, a U.S. federal holiday, on March 31. Learn more about Chávez and his extraordinary life here: César E. Chávez grew up working on farms along with...
California’s Tax Credit Helps Working Families If you are working and pay taxes, you may be eligible for a California Earned Income Tax Credit that can give you a refund — or reduce your family’s taxes — by thousands of dollars. And if you have young children, you can...
Cultural Competence: What You Can (and Should!) Expect from Healthcare Providers "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." — Martin Luther King, Jr. Sometimes you walk out of a doctor's office feeling worse than when...
COVID-19 Challenges: Thank a Childcare Worker! As most parents are keenly aware, quality child care is critical to a child’s development, parents’ ability to work and families’ well-being. While Los Angeles County child care providers have long faced considerable...
Inspiring Children's Books for Women's History Month Inspire your young reader with these empowering books in honor of Women's History Month! Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed The World By Susan Hood (Author) Sophie Blackall (Illustrator), Emily Winfield...
Your Well Child: Clear-Eyed About Vision and Other Health Screenings February is Low Vision Awareness Month — and a good time to, well, focus on your child’s healthy vision and other growth and development, even as the pandemic and social distancing continues. It may...
New U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Infants and Children: Skip the Sugar Sugar is not so sweet for babies’ and childrens’ health, according to new dietary guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In fact, the report recommends babies have no added...
What Kids Have Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic How important is it, in the middle of a pandemic, that your young child is reading ahead of schedule or can play soccer or the violin? After months of stay-at-home orders and less-than-ideal home schooling, many of...
February 2021 Books February is Black History Month! Celebrate with these books… The ABC’s of Black History by Rio Cortez, illustrated by Lauren Semmer Told in rhyming text, this book follows the alphabet as we learn all about black history of the U.S. and around the...