Our Mission and Vision

First 5 Ventura County envisions a future where all Ventura County children thrive in healthy supported environments with loving and nurturing caregivers in the home and throughout the community.  This future embraces the value of active partnerships between families, service providers, civic leaders, local business and the community at-large. It honors and respects the diversity of our community and prioritizes the need to ensure optimal health and development for young children and their families.

Our mission is to create and maintain a community-wide effort that provides access to comprehensive, culturally competent, integrated and high quality prenatal and early childhood development services; enhances the potential for young children to enter kindergarten ready to learn and to engage in life-long learning; and supports the continuous improvement of environments critical to the health and well-being of children, from birth to five years of age and their families in Ventura County.