For September, we're focusing our social media efforts on Parental Resilience, one of the five Protective Factors which are research-informed approaches to increase family strengths, enhance child development and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect....

Lucy Dunn, a champion for local business as the CEO and president of Orange County Business Council, wrote an op-ed in the Orange County Business Journal titled, "We Ignore Orange County's Child Care Crisis at Our Collective Peril." Dunn heavily relied on statistics...

First 5 Orange County and President/CEO Kim Goll were highlighted in Fast Company magazine's cover story profile of U.S. Representative Katie Porter. Porter was on a webinar featuring First 5 Orange County and Goll in which the child care crisis in the county was...

First 5 Orange County’s Child Care Landscape Analysis report was featured in an article in the Epoch Times about providing funding to child care providers. The story mentioned the First 5 Orange County's Orange County Child Care Landscape Analysis Phase I Report of...

First 5 Orange County visited with Assemblyman Steven Choi at Orange Unified School District’s Child Development Center on July 29 to discuss the importance of quality child care and the impact the child care crisis has had on Orange County’s economy. Here's a video...

In an effort to better engage families, partners and community members, First 5 Orange County launched a Twitter account that will further help disseminate the valuable information, resources and analysis that has made the organization a leader for young children in...

First 5 Orange County President/CEO Kim Goll was invited to be on the news program, “Inside the Issues,” hosted by Alex Cohen, to discuss the child care crisis facing Orange County and the state of California. Goll frequently cited the findings revealed in First 5...

The second phase of First 5 Orange County’s Child Care Landscape Analysis report was featured in an article in The Orange County Register detailing the findings. The story quoted First 5 Orange County President/CEO Kim Goll in highlighting that child care challenges...

“We won’t really ever fully understand.” First 5 Orange County President/CEO Kim Goll was featured in a story in The Orange County Register detailing how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the child care industry in Orange County and left parents and providers...

First 5 Orange County President/CEO Kim Goll was quoted in an Orange County Register article titled, "Parents may be in for a rude awakening as they start to return to work and seek child care." The article details the difficulties parents and caregivers are having...