With data pointing at the Latino population quickly becoming a majority minority in the nation, a recent symposium held in Chicago by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics highlighted the ways in which early learning can help support this...
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What We’re Reading
Here’s the latest news, research and other items of interest that we’re reading to inform our view of the issues affecting parents and children from the prenatal stage to age 5:LET’S START WITH A LITTLE LEVITY The comic strip Candorville is one of the few that...
Building Stronger Communities: How First 5 LA’s Best Start Program Continues to Grow and Thrive
Building Stronger Communities: How First 5 LA’s Best Start Program Continues to Grow and Thrive In 14 communities throughout Los Angeles County, First 5 LA’s Best Start program brings together parents and caregivers, residents, organizations, businesses, government...
A message from First 5 LA Executive Director, Kim Belshé
We are pleased to share First 5 LA’s Strategic Plan for 2015-20: Focusing for the Future. Our new plan is the product of careful listening to multiple partners and stakeholders, parents and community members, First 5 LA staff and Commissioners. What we learned from...
Strategic Plan 2015-2020 – Frequently Asked Questions
Focusing for the Future: First 5 LA Strategic Plan 2015-2020Frequently Asked QuestionsFirst 5 LA’s 2015-2020 Strategic Plan serves as a roadmap that will help the organization improve how we contribute to positive and lasting change for children prenatal to age 5 and...
Reports Reveal Key Issues Affecting Los Angeles County Early Care and Education Landscape
In a landmark effort to better understand, explain and improve the landscape for Early Care and Education (ECE) in Los Angeles County, Advancement Project has released three reports and unveiled a new interactive website to benefit media, advocates and decision makers...
Board Approves Bills for First 5 LA Legislative Agenda
First 5 LA’s Board of Commissioners unanimously approved support on April 9 for a number of state bills that could greatly improve the lives of young children and their families in California.Bills included in First 5 LA's 2015 Legislative Agenda were selected based...
Keeping Her Eye on the Ball
“Know where to throw the ball before you catch it,” was an early lesson Leanne Negron – a First 5 LA Senior Program Officer in the Best Start Communities department – learned through sports and then adopted throughout her life.Negron started playing sports when she...
Helping Families to Their Best Start
Like some other parents, Iris Galicia, a mother of two who lives in West Athens, faces some challenges related to how to best raise her young children to ensure they grow up healthy and ready to attend school.That is why she and about 40 other people recently attended...
First 5 LA Names Peter Barth as Director of Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs
Los Angeles, CA: Peter Barth has been selected as Director of Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs at First 5 LA. As the senior policy and intergovernmental affairs strategist for the organization, Barth will lead a team to inform public policy at the county, state,...
