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The Board of Commissioners meets on the second Thursday of each month at 1:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. All meetings are open to the public, and agendas are posted on our website at least 72 hours in advance. Please check our Commissi...

What keeps parents up at night in What keeps parents up at night in this age of COVID-19? For mom Giannina Pérez, it’s thinking about what other parents in California are going through. As Senior Policy Advisor for Early Childh...

For Perla Montenegro, life is all about adjusting to challenges. When she was 18, her parents were deported, leaving her to take care of her little sister, who was 9 at the time. She particularly remembers scrambling to find help. “Imagine th...

Jacqueline Cortez-Paz is a stay-at-home mom of three kids in South Los Angeles who struggles with depression and anxiety. The COVID-19 pandemic has made things even worse. Perla Montenegro is a mother trying to do her job at home. Her husb...

Jacqueline Cortez-Paz is a stay-at-home mom of two teenagers and a 2-year-old girl, Daisy. Her husband, Ricardo, lost hours at work as a welder because of the pandemic. They live in South Los Angeles. She explains here why continued televisits w...

How do you sum up the work of the First 5 LA’s Family Supports Department during the COVID-19 pandemic? One word: Connection. With vulnerable families facing fewer supports and increasing stressors like isolation, illness, financ...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in late May has sparked protests and global outcry. His death came on the heels of a series of police and civilian murders of unarmed Black citizens, amid a global pandemic disproportio...

There ’ s no question that COVID-19 has complicated necessary errands like supermarket trips for almost everyone. But for many low-income communities, grocery shopping is now not just complicated — it ’ s a real problem. That ’...

ALAMEDA, CA (June 15, 2020) - Child care and other programs that support families must be prioritized in the final 2020-21 state budget, which now awaits Governor Newsom's action, said First 5 Association, First 5 California, and First 5 LA on ...

Inequities have consequences. The deaths of unarmed African Americans George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and the racial-targeting of Christian Cooper and Omar Jimenez are all tragedies from the extreme to the life-altering that make...