L.A. County Child Care Planning Committee Calls for State, Federal Investments to Address Persistent Gaps in Quality and Access to Subsidized Care, and Professionalizing the Early Education WorkforceLOS ANGELES – Parents with two children may pay nearly half their...
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The State of Early Care and Education in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County Child Care Planning Committee 2017 Needs Assessment OVERVIEW The early years of a child’s development lays the foundation for success in school. According to Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child, 700 to 1,000 new neural connections form every...
Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Programs that Help Our County’s Children Thrive
First 5 LA Concerned Kids Could Face Waves of Setbacks in State & Federal Investments in Young Children LOS ANGELES – Children’s health and education would be among the greatest casualties in Los Angeles County under cuts outlined in the Trump Administration’s budget...
First 5 LA: Early Care and Education Is a Calling, and a Career
Renews Investment in Statewide Early Care and Education Workforce Registry to Boost Professional Development Opportunities and Streamline PaperworkLOS ANGELES – First 5 LA, a leading early childhood advocacy organization, announced it will extend its strategic...
Advocacy Day 2017: Taking a Seat at the Table
One by one, on a crisp winter evening in downtown Sacramento, the lawmakers shed their coats and ducked into the confines of a darkened lounge not unlike many others in the state capitol where power is brokered and deals are made. But instead of huddling up at the bar...
4 Kids and a Question: How do you get something you want?
For this months edition of 4 Kids and a Question we asked: How do you get what you want?
Parents’ Points of View: Affording Child Care
Champions for Children: Kim Pattillo Brownson
When Kim Pattillo Brownson brought home her first-born child several years ago, she was met with her first moment of deep uncertainty as a new parent. “There was that moment where I thought, 'Do I remember how to swaddle her? And if my baby cries for more than a...
Early Childhood Matters – Issue #13
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Commissioners’ Corner: A Time of Change
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Truer words were never said about Nancy Au and Dr. Philip Browning – two First 5 LA Commissioners who departed the Board in early 2017. Au, who...
