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Making the News: Baby Bust or Birth of a New Outlook on Kids?
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...
Promoting Family-Friendly Workplace Policies and Practice: Landscape Analysis
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...
Strengthening Families Through Home Visiting
For Midori, her home visitor’s advice on breastfeeding her newborn was crucial in deciding to keep nursing him. For Lidia, her stress and fears were allayed by reassurance from her home visitor that...
First 5s: Trump Proposal to Recalculate Federal Poverty Level Will Hurt Millions of California Children
ALAMEDA, CA – First 5 Association of California, First 5 California, and First 5 LA today announced their opposition to the Trump Administration’s proposal to recalculate the Federal Poverty Level...
Color Copier/Printer Invitation to Bid (ITB)
Updated - Deadline Extended to July 24, 2019 Updated - Questions and Answers posted 6/28/2019 ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Service support unit must be located in Los Angeles County Minimum of five (5)...
L.A. Mayor Garcetti: Mayors Should Do More for Youngest Constituents
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is urging his counterparts throughout L.A. County to increase efforts to provide quality preschool and child care to their youngest residents, noting that less than...
Family Place Libraries Initiative: Then and Now
“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...
When I Became a Father, I Learned Asking Can Be a Form of Advocacy
As a 20-year veteran of California politics and public affairs, I used to define advocacy as organizing marches, canvassing neighborhoods door-to-door, and staging press conferences to influence...
Early Identification and Intervention Issue Briefs
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...
RESOURCE: Universal Approaches to Promoting Healthy Development
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...
