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.




Becoming History

Becoming History

Oct 6, 2025

By, Ruel Nolledo | Freelance Writer October 6, 2025 "What we have yet to grasp is that identity is not something to which we can go back; that it is what we have become, what we are at the moment. Identity is not a being but a becoming, a process." -Nick Joaquin,...

Child & Family Progress Project Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

Aug 20, 2025

POSTING DATE: AUGUST 20, 2025 DUE DATE: SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) UPDATE(S): September 4, 2025 – the following has been posted under the Questions and Answers section: Child & Family Progress Project RFQ - Questions and Answers August 27,...

Governor Newsom Appoints First 5 LA President and CEO Karla Pleitéz Howell to California’s Early Childhood Policy Council

First 5 LA August Board Meeting: Navigating the Shifting Landscape

Aug 19, 2025

By, Ruel Nolledo | Freelance Writer August 19, 2025 First 5 LA’s Board of Commissioners met on August 14, 2025, for an information-only session centered on the urgency of planning for the future in the midst of a rapidly changing policy landscape. Commissioners heard...

Governor Newsom Appoints First 5 LA President and CEO Karla Pleitéz Howell to California’s Early Childhood Policy Council

First 5 LA Board Approves Budget for FY 2025-26

Aug 5, 2025

By, Ruel Nolledo | Freelance Writer August 5, 2025 First 5 LA's Board of Commissioners convened in person for its monthly meeting on June 12, 2025. Highlights of the meeting included the approval of the FY 2025-26 Budget and Long-Term Fiscal Plan, as well as several...

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