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First 5 California's School Readiness Program

School Readiness is a core First 5 California investment. In December 2001, First 5 California launched a four-year, $400 million School Readiness Program, in partnership with First 5 County Commissions to improve the ability of families, schools and communities to prepare children to enter school ready to succeed. The Program is statewide and focuses both on preparing children for school and preparing schools for children.

0 Working with the First 5 County Commissions and their partners in all 58 counties, the goals of First 5 California's School Readiness Program are to:
  1. Improve Family Functioning - Includes behavioral and mental health services, providing basic family needs, targeted intensive parent support services and general parenting classes;
  2. Improve Child Development - Includes services such as preschool for 3 and 4 year-olds, comprehensive screening and assessments, early education provider programs and family literacy programs;
  3. Improve Health - Includes services such as tobacco cessation education and treatment, breastfeeding assistance, nutrition, fitness, and health education, health access, home visitation for newborns, oral health, prenatal care, primary care services, safety education and injury prevention and specialty medical services; and
  4. Improve Systems of Care - Includes activities such as school's readiness for children, service outreach, planning, support and management, provider capacity building, training, and support, community strengthening efforts and program management.


Resources

To learn more about school readiness and the First 5 School Readiness Program, check out the resources on our Publications page or the School Readiness Resources page.


On July 1, 2005 the State Commission adopted the State Research and Evaluation Framework.  All Funded SP programs transitioned to the new evaluation based on 4 results areas:
  • Improved Family Functioning
  • Improved Child Development
  • Improved Health
  • Improved Systems of Care
All SR programs are required to provide services in each of the 4 results areas.  Annually programs submit data on the services they provided and the outcomes associated with the services to ensure results-based accountability that includes well-defined and meaning outcomes that benefit children ages 0-5 and their families.
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