First 5 Orange County and Children’s Home Society recently distributed diapers, crafts, masks, sanitation and cleaning supplies, books and more to local child care providers. More than 250 child care providers came to collect the 470 bags of free supplies at Pretend...
OCDE Presents Webinar: It’s Time! How can Early Learning providers create a thorough plan to reopen?
The Orange County Child Care and Development Planning Council and the Orange County Emergency Child Care Task Force Present: It’s Time! How can child care providers create a thorough re-opening plan? How can providers assure that children are in safe, healthy, and...
Stipends Available for Child Care Providers
Quality Start OC is providing stipends to eligible child care providers that are currently open and serving children ages birth to 5. Responses are due by June 1, 2020, as the funding must be disbursed by June 30. Click here to view the application. Child care centers...
6th Annual Human Services Request for Proposals Training for Community Partners – 9/27
The County of Orange Social Services Agency is pleased to announce its 6th Annual Human Services Request for Proposals Training for Community Partners for human services providers interested in learning more about competitive bidding through the use of the Request for...
First 5 OC Voices: A new way to boost school readiness
Read the full column from Rigo Rodríguez, Ph.D., member of the Santa Ana Unified School District Governing Board, Associate Professor at California State University Long Beach and a board member for Delhi Center in Santa Ana, about the importance of kindergarten...
Builders construct diaper homes to support diaper need
Read the full story about the 10th anniversary of the Essentials for Young Lives Campaign and the Builders for Babies event on the Orange County Register here.