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...
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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...
Childhood Obesity Prevention Virtual Conference Series to be held Aug. 26
Save the Date for the coming American Academy of Pediatrics - Orange County Chapter's Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Virtual Conference Series. The event will be held from 6:00 - 7:30 PM on August 26, 2020 via a Zoom Webinar. More information to come!
State of Babies Yearbook 2020 California: Using Data to Inform State Infant-Toddler Policies
The State of California's Babies 10 to 11:30 a.m. August 25, 2020 Please join First 5 partners Zero to Three, Early Childhood OC, and the First 5 Center for Children’s Policy for the State of Babies Yearbook 2020 California: Using Data to Inform State Infant-Toddler...
First 5 Orange County Children and Families Commission Meeting to be held via Zoom at 9 a.m. August 5, 2020
Join us at 9 a.m. August 5, 2020 as the First 5 Orange County Children and Families Commission meets via Zoom. The meeting will begin with a presentation by Pritzker Fellow Hoda Shawky on the capstone project for her Fellowship, the OC Perinatal Mental Health Toolkit....
First 5 Orange County CEO/President to Appear on Curt Pringle & Associates Webinar
First 5 Orange County CEO/President Kim Goll will join CHOC Children’s Chief Psychologist Heather Huszti and Curt Pringle of Curt Pringle & Associates for the weekly web series Thinking About Tomorrow Today. Goll and Huszti will discuss children’s mental health...
First 5 Orange County appoints new chair of the Children and Families Commission
Dr. Ramin Baschshi, President and CEO of UCP of Orange County, is new chair of the First 5 Orange County Children and Families Commission First 5 Orange County has appointed Dr. Ramin Baschshi as Chair of the Children and Families Commission. Dr. Baschshi will serve a...