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4 Kids and a Question: If a friend is hungry, what would you do?
Parent’s Point of View: Helping Homeless Kids
National “Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing” Campaign Comes to L.A. County
Campaign Will Promote Importance of Early Language and Brain Development to New ParentsLOS ANGELES – Celebrating National Reading Month, First 5 LA and Too Small to Fail today announced a strategic...
The Power of Partnership
A few years ago, Rochelle McCollum was working as a manager of a dental office in El Monte, making good money and living in a nice home with her six kids. Then she got the news: her mother had...
March 9 Commission Meeting Summary
These Commission Summaries are intended to provide highlights of the First 5 LA Board of Commissioners’ actions to advance the outcome areas of First 5 LA’s 2015-2020 Strategic Plan. At the March 9...
Report: Parents Struggle with Cost, Shortage of Early Care and Education Opportunities
L.A. County Child Care Planning Committee Calls for State, Federal Investments to Address Persistent Gaps in Quality and Access to Subsidized Care, and Professionalizing the Early Education...
The State of Early Care and Education in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County Child Care Planning Committee 2017 Needs Assessment OVERVIEW The early years of a child’s development lays the foundation for success in school. According to Harvard’s Center on...
Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Programs that Help Our County’s Children Thrive
First 5 LA Concerned Kids Could Face Waves of Setbacks in State & Federal Investments in Young Children LOS ANGELES – Children’s health and education would be among the greatest casualties in Los...
First 5 LA: Early Care and Education Is a Calling, and a Career
Renews Investment in Statewide Early Care and Education Workforce Registry to Boost Professional Development Opportunities and Streamline PaperworkLOS ANGELES – First 5 LA, a leading early childhood...
Advocacy Day 2017: Taking a Seat at the Table
One by one, on a crisp winter evening in downtown Sacramento, the lawmakers shed their coats and ducked into the confines of a darkened lounge not unlike many others in the state capitol where power...
