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...
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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...
Orange County Association for the Education of Young Children is taking a survey of licensed child care providers
The Orange County Association for the Education of Young Children, as a member of the OC Emergency Child Care Taskforce, is gathering data about licensed Orange County early childhood centers and family child care homes that are open, closed, or somewhere in-between....
OC Board of Supervisors approves $5 million grant on heels of First 5 Orange County’s child care report
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Oct. 20 approved a $5 million emergency CARES Act grant to benefit licensed child-care providers in the county. First 5 Orange County is working with Charitable Ventures to administer an application process and to...
First 5 Orange County President/CEO Kim Goll featured on KNX 1070 radio to discuss child care report
First 5 Orange County President/CEO Kim Goll was interviewed by KNX 1070 AM radio on Wednesday, Oct. 7 to discuss the Child Care Landscape Analysis report. Goll's sound bites were featured as part of two news reports detailing the report's findings: Clip 1 (Press the...