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For Parents.To help you do the best you can, here’s some information, tools and resources for supporting your child’s healthy development and learning.
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About FTF. Created by Arizona voters, First Things First partners with families and communities to help our state’s young children be ready for success in kindergarten and beyond.
Grants. First Things First invests in strategies and programs that support the development, health and learning of children birth to age 5 (before kindergarten).
Get Involved. First Things First partners with families and communities to give all Arizona children the opportunity to arrive at kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed.
A new FTF report highlights the challenges Arizona’s young children faced before the pandemic, and how some of those barriers have worsened.
It makes sense, but now there’s research that the more gentle touching the better for a baby’s brain.
Reading together helps young children develop important life skills as well as language and literacy.
Building Bright Futures – our biennial statewide report – is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the challenges facing Arizona’s young…
Learn about the impact FTF programs have had on children and families over the past year, as well as system-building efforts that are expanding resources for…
A recent study has proven that Quality First works to improve the quality of early learning settings and that the scale used to rate programs does reflect…
Economist James Heckman’s latest research suggests that investing in quality early childhood programs produces a 13 percent return on investment.…
Since the inception of First Things First, the percentage of kindergarteners with untreated tooth decay has decreased by 8%. This and other notable…
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