Throughout Los Angeles County, Best Start Community Partnerships have embarked on the “Learning by Doing” journey – Best Start‘s approach to Community Capacity Building. Partnerships are collectively moving through the decision making points that will ultimately lead to engaging in results focused activities to strengthen children and families in their community. Watch the video below to see how the Best Start Central Long Beach Community Partnership began this journey – looking at and analyzing data about their community, and choosing, based on that data, how to bring about community change.




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