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We’re dedicated to building a comprehensive and coordinated early childhood system—and that includes offering community programs designed to help every child get a strong start in life.  

Browse our range of child-, caregiver-, and provider-focused programs below.

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Jan 2, 2025

Annual Report highlights successes and partnerships

Please join us in celebrating our collective work accomplished over the past 25 years.   From the start, First 5 has stood as a powerful reflection of California voters’ values. The passage of Proposition 10 in 1998 was a transformative moment, enabling California to fund early childhood programming in each county, weaving together our societal commitment to a child’s…

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Jan 2, 2025

Staff participate in the development of the 2025 Policy Agenda

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Jan 2, 2025

Strengthening system partnerships through collaborative investments in diaper distribution program

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Are you delivering services, or are you delivering change?

Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California