First 5 at a Glance
First 5 Ventura County envisions a future where all children 0-5 thrive in healthy and supportive communities. We work with communities to fund early learning experiences and health and family services that develop the full potential of children 0-5 and their families.
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.
Strategic Plan Community Input Forums
In building our 2010-2015 Strategic Plan Draft, F5VC has led an extensive 12-month process. We've reviewed key data and gathered input from parents, funded partners, community
F5VC, Business Leaders Join to Support Early Learning
Under the leadership of First 5 Ventura County, the Economic Development Collaborative of Ventura County, California State University Channel Islands, and the Limoneira Company, 20 business and community leaders joined
Children: The Economic Imperative
We know that the First five years impact a lifetime; it’s the foundation of our work at First 5. We want all children to have the best possible start in life--to meet their full potential.
Of Friends, Fans and Tweets
In an effort to build and support the extended First 5 Ventura County community, we are now connecting with parents, colleagues and children's advocates through several social media platforms.
Local Decision Making
The framers of the California Children and Families Act (Proposition 10) understood that the best knowledge of children's needs -- and the best decisions about how First 5 can meet those needs -- lies at the local level.