The
overarching goal of First Five California is to promote children’s
healthy development and school readiness. |
Support
families as children’s primary caregivers and first teachers. |
Respond
to the voices and views of parents, caregivers,
and children. |
Ensure
that families from all of California’s culturally,
linguistically, and geographically diverse populations,
including those with special needs, can connect to a system
of services that is easy to access, use, and understand, and
that meets their individual needs to support their children’s
healthy development and school readiness. |
Maximize
the use of all available local, state, federal, and private
resources to target and improve services for young children
and their families. |
Incorporate
the highest quality researched-based program standards. |
Build
on the foundation of existing state and local expertise and
capacity and work to increase it. |
Provide
a laboratory for exploring promising practices and a forum for
exchanging information about practices that could be effective
statewide. |
Focus
on results, using results-based assessment and
evaluation of local and state programs and strategies. |
Promote
policy and system improvement. |
