LOS ANGELES – Recognizing the challenges facing Los Angeles County’s 625,000 kids aged 0-5 are bigger than any one organization, First 5 LA’s Board of Commissioners today approved a FY 2017-18 budget that emphasizes partnership as central to the organization’s work....
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“We’re here to talk about the children.” Spoken by a small, bespectacled grandmother by the name of Zonia Sanchez, these seven words reached across the desk and grabbed the ear of the Lancaster lawmaker seated beneath the California State flag. As Assemblyman Tom...
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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 May 11 Commission meeting, highlights include approval of the Best Start...
“If L.A. County does it, it could and should be done everywhere.” Delivered by Help Me Grow founder Dr. Paul Dworkin to the First 5 LA Board, those words spoke to the significance of First 5 LA’s collaborative effort to develop Help Me Grow-LA (HMG-LA), a systems-wide...
During the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on a warm Sunday afternoon in April, First 5 LA provided many grateful parents with a breastfeeding booth, kids’ activities and diaper-changing area. It was First 5 LA’s 8th...
First 5 LA to Work with Governor, Legislature, Advocates and Parents to Help Make California a Place Where Young Children Can Thrive LOS ANGELES – Leading early childhood advocates in Los Angeles County today praised Governor Brown’s May Revision to the State Budget...
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