First 5 Orange County President and CEO Kim Goll was one of the featured panelists during a webinar announcing the virtual launch of the 2020-21 OC Community Indicators Report. First 5 OC partnered with the Orange County Business Council, CalOptima, Orange County...
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First 5 Orange County hiring a Program Manager (CLOSED)
First 5 Orange County is seeking a dynamic, experienced individual with a mission-driven approach to support program development and implementation. Reporting to the Senior Program Manager, the Program Manager will help implement and manage initiatives to create...
First 5 Orange County hiring a Vice President of Programs (CLOSED)
First 5 OC is seeking an energetic, collaborative, experienced leader to direct the agency’s program portfolio with a keenness for strategy, innovation, and return on investment. Reporting to the President/CEO and serving as a key advisor to that role, the Vice...
Orange County COVID-19 Child Care Consultation Services
The Orange County Health Care Agency, CHOC Children's, and UC Irvine have created an Orange County COVID-19 school and child care consultation Services program to answer questions and provide information to schools and child care providers in Orange County. The...
First 5 Orange County speaks to OC Register about preschools’ work to engage children
First 5 Orange County's Director of Partnerships and Government Affairs Tiffany Alva was recently quoted in the Orange County Register article "Preschools are getting creative to engage the youngest of Orange County’s learners." Even before the pandemic, nearly half...
First 5 Orange County Commissioner pens op-ed in Daily Pilot
First 5 Orange County Commissioner Susan McClintic writes in the Daily Pilot about glaring issues in the child care industry — and how First 5 Orange County is helping spearhead a major study to uncover the severity of the problem locally. Working with our community...
First 5 OC thanks partners for a successful supply distribution
First 5 Orange County would like to extend its thanks to Rep. Katie Porter for helping with the First 5 Orange County and Children's Home Society of California supply distribution at Pretend City Children's Museum. Together with the Orange County Emergency Child Care...
First 5 OC, Children’s Home Society distribute supplies to local child care centers
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...
The Time to Fix Orange County’s Child Care is Now
Child care has increasingly been in the spotlight as the pandemic forced to light massive flaws in the child care system in Orange County and nationwide. First 5 Orange County Children and Families Commissioner Susan McClintic speaks out about our child care system,...
First 5 Orange County named in Orange County Register for OC Census work and diaper distributions
First 5 Orange County has been featured in an article in the Orange County Register for our work with the OC Census. Read more at the link. This past week, First 5 Orange County held diaper giveaways in the predominantly immigrant neighborhoods around the Delhi...