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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.
Kristen Grimm is the opening keynote speaker for the 2019 Summit. She shares her ideas about advocacy and creating social change.
The Avondale family resource center is a centralized hub of not only services for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, but a wide-range of social and human…
The goal of Linking Leaders is to connect center owners, directors and teachers with resources that raise the quality of the children’s environments.
An FTF-funded professional development program helped a Tohono O’odham preschool teacher earn college credit for her degree.
In-depth professional development has helped southern Arizona early childhood educators earn college credit and work toward degrees in early childhood.
Many First Things First regions are celebrating the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s Week of the Young Child, April 8-12.
Many economists contend that a future economy’s strong workforce starts by investing in children birth to age 5.
For the third year in a row, community organizations across Santa Cruz County, including the First Things First Santa Cruz Region will have a common focus: how…
First Things First continues to find opportunities to share information and resources for parents and caregivers.
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