This month’s question: “What are You Grateful for?”
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Early Childhood Matters – Issue #10
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Community Information Ambassadors Lead Lancaster
Just one home visit this year from the Antelope Valley Partners for Health and a chat about volunteering inspired Lancaster single mom Shelby Brown to become a Community Information Ambassador. First 5 LA grantee AVPH partnered with Best Start Palmdale and Best Start...
Promotores Conference Inspires Best Start Members
When Natalya Seals recently went to the Visión y Compromiso 14th annual Conference of Promotores, Leaders and Community Workers in Ontario for the first time, she did something she doesn’t usually do. She cried. The Best Start Metro Los Angeles member and single mom...
October 2016 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 October 13 Commission meeting, highlights include approval of a strategic...
Early Childhood Matters – Issue #9
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4 People and a Point to Ponder – “How Did the Arts Shape Your Childhood?”
First 5 LA’s vision is a future where every child prenatal to age 5 in Los Angeles County grows up healthy, protected and ready to succeed in school. Each month, we will ask people who work with, care for, or advocate on behalf of young children and their families in...
September 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 September 8 Commission meeting, highlights include a thank you to former First...
Champions for Children – Christina Altmayer
Peer Pressure. Pop Quizzes. Pimples. Yes, 8th grade can be a challenging time for a teenager. Christina Altmayer faced all these tests growing up on New York’s Long Island. And then, tragically, another challenge literally landed on her doorstep. “My mom’s sister died...
A Change for the Better: Learning and Leading at First 5 LA
As a boy growing up in Bakersfield, California, Armando Jimenez often spent time at his family’s small Mexican restaurant. It was there that he would find his 50-something-year-old Uncle Eddie, sitting on a barstool with his glasses on, perusing the pages of the New...
