Community Input SessionsFirst 5 LA is inviting all local grassroots organizations representatives and advocates working to achieve positive community change across LA County to a Community Input Session. We invite all community stakeholders to provide their best...
Updated Structure Will Enable First 5 LA to More Effectively Advance Key Outcome Areas to Benefit Kids Los Angeles- First 5 LA today announced new department directors and a management structure designed to strengthen its ability to effectively execute its 2015-2020...
Wagner to Lead First 5 LA’s Efforts to Help Integrate and Coordinate County Services to Improve Outcomes for Young Children and Their Families LOS ANGELES– First 5 LA, an early childhood advocacy and public grantmaking organization, today named Chief Operating Officer...
Growing up as one of 13 children in Chicago, Teresa Nuno learned early in life the value of her immigrant parents’ efforts to create a better life in this country. Even for other kids in the neighborhood. “She had a ‘can do’ attitude and was always one of the go to...
The seeds of a five-year investment to improve access to fresh produce by First 5 LA reached full bloom in late July with the grand opening of Belvedere Community Garden in East Los Angeles – the last of eight community gardens constructed throughout Los Angeles...
Oh, what a year it’s been! In an innovative Commission Meeting on July 14, First 5 LA staff presented an update on the first year of the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan that featured key progress in the plan’s four priority outcome areas. Additionally, First 5 LA...
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...
La mañana del 16 de abril después de llevar a los niños a la escuela, María regresa a su apartamento, encuentra a su vecina y juntas salen a la calle a platicar. De repente ven a un hombre que intenta robar las bolsas de una señora que camina por ahí y la vecina de...
First 5 LA would like to congratulate the Best Start Metro LA Partnership for today's feature in KPCC, a Southern California Public Radio public media member.Originally penned by Dorian Merina, translated by First 5 LA and reprinted with permission.La conversación a...
