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 Commission meeting, highlights include approval of an extension of a...
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 breast cancer. So Rochelle left her job and home and moved her family into...
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 WorkforceLOS ANGELES – Parents with two children may pay nearly half their...
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 Angeles County under cuts outlined in the Trump Administration’s budget...
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 the Developing Child, 700 to 1,000 new neural connections form every...
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 organization, announced it will extend its strategic...
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When Kim Pattillo Brownson brought home her first-born child several years ago, she was met with her first moment of deep uncertainty as a new parent. “There was that moment where I thought, 'Do I remember how to swaddle her? And if my baby cries for more than a...
For this months edition of 4 Kids and a Question we asked: How do you get what you want?
