Two significant changes to the First 5 LA Board took place in May: Commissioner Suzanne Bostwick retired from her four-year role as a Board alternate and Brandon Nichols launched his role as a First 5 LA alternate Commissioner. During her years of First 5 LA service,...
“Home visiting is a great area of potential partnership between First 5 LA and the County.” - Board Chair and L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl These Commission Summaries are intended to provide highlights of the First 5 LA Board of Commissioners’ actions to advance...
Highlighting the agency’s commitment to living within its means during a declining funding curve, First 5 LA’s Commission unanimously approved a new, $161.5 million budget on June 9 for fiscal year 2016-17. Key elements of the new budget, which goes into effect on...
Sometimes a conclusion becomes the first chapter of a new beginning. (LAUP) is in transition from the past into the future. After providing high quality affordable preschool to children of working and middle class families in Los Angeles County for over a decade, it...
June 14, 2016 When LaQuita went to a South...
Budget Advances Emphasis on Sustainable Public Financing, Public Policy and Systems-level Change LOS ANGELES – First 5 LA’s Board of Commissioners today approved a fiscal year 2016-2017 budget that advances the organization’s emphasis on sustainable public financing,...
LOS ANGELES– First 5 LA, a leading public grantmaking and child advocacy organization, today named Daniela Pineda, Ph.D. as Vice President of Integration & Learning. This position is part of a five-member Executive Team of organization-wide leaders tasked with...
LOS ANGELES– First 5 LA, a leading public grantmaking and child advocacy organization, today named Kim Pattillo Brownson as Vice President of Policy and Strategy. The position is one of five executive team members tasked with the oversight, development and execution...
First 5 LA Raises its Voice for Young Children on Capitol Hill and other stories
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." — John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States Delivering a message on behalf of Los Angeles County’s youngest constituents – some who have yet to develop words of their own – First 5 LA...
