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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...

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 ’...

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...

As the country heads into its third month of sheltering in place and states gradually reopen, a key question is looming large in the minds of parents, economists and elected officials alike: Who will care for the children when parents are called ...

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...

Photo credit: Rondah Delos Reyes As a full-time cardiac rehab worker at a Glendale hospital, Kirstie Basal-De La Cruz helps to heal injured hearts from all over Los Angeles County, working with patients recovering from recent stents or hea...