First 5 LA’s vision is a future where every child prenatal to age 5 in Los Angeles County grows up healthy, protected and ready to succeed in school. Each month, we will ask people who work with, care for, or advocate on behalf of young children and their families in...
Mercedes Cruz will never forget the afternoon when the bullets started flying. She was sitting on a bench in Ruben F. Salazar Park in East Los Angeles on a Friday while her three young children took turns going up and down the two slides that made up the nearly barren...
As a young child growing up in Green Bay,...
By Mia Foreman, First 5 LA Program Development Officer More than 5 million children in the U.S. have had a parent who lived with them go to jail or prison. That’s one in 28 kids, compared with one in 125 about 30 years ago. This proportion is higher among black, poor,...
First 5 LA has named Daniela Pineda as the Vice President of Integration and Learning, becoming the final addition to the executive leadership team at First 5 LA. Pineda will oversee development of the learning and evaluation framework for all First 5 LA programs and...
First Phase of Multiyear Campaign Focuses on Raising Awareness and Understanding of Challenges of Parenting, Helping Parents and Caregivers in L.A. County Build Social Connections LOS ANGELES – First 5 LA, a leading early childhood advocate and public grantmaker,...
Early Childhood Matters: Bonding, Breastfeeding and Beyond
First 5 LA would like to acknowledge the Trauma-Informed Care workgroup’s support for this feature in Hoy Los Angeles, the LA Times' Spanish language newspaper.Originally penned by Selene Rivera, translated and reprinted with permission.Maria C. had just given birth...
How do you write the stories that YOU want to read and then get them published? This microdumentary follows members of the Best Start Metro LA (BSMLA) Communications Task Force as they attend a writing workshop led by journalist Eileen Truax. By addressing the issues...
As a leading early childhood education advocate, First 5 LA thanks the Governor and the California State Assembly and Senate for making the state’s youngest learners a top priority LOS ANGELES – In a significant victory for California’s youngest children, their...
