First Phase of Multiyear Campaign Focuses on Raising Awareness and Understanding of Challenges of Parenting, Helping Parents and Caregivers in L.A. County Build Social Connections LOS ANGELES – First 5 LA, a leading early childhood advocate and public grantmaker,...
Early Childhood Matters: Bonding, Breastfeeding and Beyond
First 5 LA would like to acknowledge the Trauma-Informed Care workgroup’s support for this feature in Hoy Los Angeles, the LA Times' Spanish language newspaper.Originally penned by Selene Rivera, translated and reprinted with permission.Maria C. had just given birth...
How do you write the stories that YOU want to read and then get them published? This microdumentary follows members of the Best Start Metro LA (BSMLA) Communications Task Force as they attend a writing workshop led by journalist Eileen Truax. By addressing the issues...
As a leading early childhood education advocate, First 5 LA thanks the Governor and the California State Assembly and Senate for making the state’s youngest learners a top priority LOS ANGELES – In a significant victory for California’s youngest children, their...
June 14, 2016 When LaQuita went to a South...
Sometimes a conclusion becomes the first chapter of a new beginning. (LAUP) is in transition from the past into the future. After providing high quality affordable preschool to children of working and middle class families in Los Angeles County for over a decade, it...
Highlighting the agency’s commitment to living within its means during a declining funding curve, First 5 LA’s Commission unanimously approved a new, $161.5 million budget on June 9 for fiscal year 2016-17. Key elements of the new budget, which goes into effect on...
“Home visiting is a great area of potential partnership between First 5 LA and the County.” - Board Chair and L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl These Commission Summaries are intended to provide highlights of the First 5 LA Board of Commissioners’ actions to advance...
Two significant changes to the First 5 LA Board took place in May: Commissioner Suzanne Bostwick retired from her four-year role as a Board alternate and Brandon Nichols launched his role as a First 5 LA alternate Commissioner. During her years of First 5 LA service,...
