First 5 Orange County has released an annual report documenting our collective achievements throughout the 2019/2020 fiscal year. We began our year focused on our core programs of hospital screenings at birth, home visiting to support children’s healthy development...
First 5 Orange County, City of Garden Grove approve $125,000 agreement to boost early childhood learning
First 5 Orange County and the City of Garden Grove are entering into a partnership to help the city improve its early childhood development strategies. Earlier this month, First 5 Orange County approved $125,000 to be used over the next 2 ½ years to fund programs and...
New Videos Available for Improving Care in Perinatal Substance Use
First 5 Orange County is excited to share four compelling videos created by colleagues in Florida and adapted for broader use by First 5 Orange County. The videos contain important information and messages on supporting pregnant and postpartum women with substance use...
County of Orange releases 26th Annual Report on Conditions of Children in Orange County
The County of Orange has released the 26th Annual Report on the Conditions of Children in Orange County. The report studies four interdependent focus areas: Good Health, Economic Well-Being, Educational Achievement and Safe Homes and Communities, with data to assess...
Spectrum News 1, Univision broadcast news reports on additional child care funding
After the Orange County Board of Supervisors approved an additional $5.1 million in emergency CARES Act funds to child care providers, First 5 Orange County assisted in the distribution of the funding. First 5 Orange County Commissioner and County Supervisor Doug...
First 5 Orange County Children and Families Commission Meeting in December
Join us at 9 a.m. December 2, 2020 as the First 5 Orange County Children and Families Commission meets via Zoom. During the First 5 Orange County’s Children and Families Commission meeting on Dec. 2, 2020, Lisa Burke, the First 5 Orange County Vice President of...
County approves $5.1M additional emergency funds for child care providers
The Orange County Board of Supervisors has approved a new $5.1 million grant, bringing the total to $10.1 million benefiting child care programs SANTA ANA, Calif. – November 18, 2020 – The Orange County Board of Supervisors has allocated an additional $5.1 million in...
First 5 Orange County featured in numerous news articles on emergency child-care funding
As an integral partner in the distribution of emergency County of Orange CARES Act funding to child care providers, First 5 Orange County was featured in several outlets detailing the news. Among them: The Orange County Register had an article in both the newspaper...
$5 million in CARES Act emergency funds available to Orange County child-care providers
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Today, the County of Orange Child Care Relief Fund opened for child care providers to apply for funding to sustain their operations. Orange County Supervisors unanimously allocated $5 million in CARES Act emergency funding to support licensed...
First 5 Orange County featured in Orange County Register story on child care funding
In The Orange County Register's article on the Orange County Board of Supervisors' approval of $5 million in CARES Act funding to child-care providers, First 5 Orange County was featured for its role in the funding, its previous work supporting child-care providers...