People in the United States are having fewer children and later in life, mirroring a trend in many developed nations. The U.S. birthrate is currently less than it was in the 1980s, and this raw data has demographers and sociologists speculating as to why and what it...
Work-life balance, often referred to as work-family balance or life-work balance, refers to an employee’s ability to minimize stress by having an adequate balance between the responsibilities of work and home life. In this Landscape Analysis funded by First 5 LA in...
For Midori, her home visitor’s advice on breastfeeding her newborn was crucial in deciding to keep nursing him. For Lidia, her stress and fears were allayed by reassurance from her home visitor that her son, born five weeks early, was developing normally. For Helen,...
ALAMEDA, CA – First 5 Association of California, First 5 California, and First 5 LA today announced their opposition to the Trump Administration’s proposal to recalculate the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) — a plan that could disqualify struggling children and families...
Updated - Deadline Extended to July 24, 2019 Updated - Questions and Answers posted 6/28/2019 ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Service support unit must be located in Los Angeles County Minimum of five (5) years in operation as a legal entity DESCRIPTION:First 5 LA is soliciting...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is urging his counterparts throughout L.A. County to increase efforts to provide quality preschool and child care to their youngest residents, noting that less than half of the county’s low-income children are ready for school by age 5,...
“Shhh… no playing in the library!”Unlike typical library rules, these aren’t words you’ll hear in the family section of the Los Angeles County Carson Library. Home to the second and only West Coast Family Place Library™ training center, the L.A. County Carson Library...
As a 20-year veteran of California politics and public affairs, I used to define advocacy as organizing marches, canvassing neighborhoods door-to-door, and staging press conferences to influence elected officials and policy makers.These remain effective techniques to...
Click here to read Issue Brief 1. Click here to read Issue Brief 2. On May 29, 2019 First 5 LA Health Systems Department released two early identification and intervention issue briefs and corresponding infographics. The briefs explore why too many children ages 0-5...
On May 29, 2019 Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released the latest volume of “The Future of Children” — a journal that promotes effective, evidence-based policies and programs for children, along with a policy brief titled "Achieving Broad-Scale...
