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*Editor's Note: Names of parents and children have been changed to protect their identities. Lucy noticed some speech issues in her 2-year-old son, David. She took him to his doctor and the doctor said it was nothing to worry about becau...

Day One was daunting. In 1998 California voters passed Prop 10, which created a new system of county-level commissions dedicated to advocate for young children up to age 5, funded by a tax on tobacco products. This was something new and...

Pictured L–R: Early Learning and Development Operations Manager at San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools Chrystina Smith-Rasshan; Professional Development & Coaching Manager at Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles Zenaid...

Solidifying his commitment to California’s youngest children, Governor Gavin Newsom on June 27 signed his 2019-2020 budget that includes nearly $2.8 billion focused on early childhood development priorities. Advancing a whole child approach, th...

Pictured L–R: [Top] Family Supports Program Officer Christine Tran; Family Supports Senior Program Officer Anna Potere; Director of Family Supports Barbara Andrade Dubransky; Family Supports Senior Program Officer Leticia Sanchez; Comm...

People in the United States are having fewer children and later in life, mirroring a trend in many developed nations. The U.S. birthrate is currently less than it was in the 1980s, and this raw data has demographers and sociologists speculating a...

Work-life balance, often referred to as work-family balance or life-work balance, refers to an employee’s ability to minimize stress by having an adequate balance between the responsibilities of work and home life. In this Landscape ...

“Shhh… no playing in the library!” Unlike typical library rules, these aren’t words you’ll hear in the family section of the Los Angeles County Carson Library . Home to the second and only West Coast Family Place Library™ training...

Click here to read Issue Brief 1. Click here to read Issue Brief 2. On May 29, 2019 First 5 LA Health Systems Department released two early identification and intervention issue briefs and corresponding infographi...

On May 29, 2019 Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released the latest volume of “The Future of Children” — a journal that promotes effective, evidence-based policies and programs for children, along with a policy brief...