Our Impact
2020
Since 1998, First 5 has advanced a shared commitment to support San Francisco’s youngest children, their families, and the providers who work on their behalf with abundant opportunities to be healthy, to learn, and to grow.
Our work helps advance our goal to ensure that all children in the city are ready for kindergarten by 2023.
Our Work
Family Support
Parents are a child’s first and best teachers and the primary influence on a child’s development. Creating rich support networks for parents and caregivers, connecting parents to local resources, and giving them information on how to support their children’s learning, enhances their ability to fulfill this critical role in their child’s life.
Child Development
Children who attend high-quality early education and preschool are more prepared for school and life-long success. Assuring broad access to high-quality early care and education in San Francisco is essential to helping children be ready for kindergarten and closing persistent gaps in the school-age years.
Child Health
Undetected issues of health and well-being, as well as special needs, can significantly impact a child’s learning and success in school. Intervening as early as possible, and linking families to services that support their child’s needs, can dramatically improve overall positive outcomes for children and their families.
100% of San Francisco children are ready for kindergarten
A Snapshot of Where We Stand Today
Family Support
High-Quality Preschool
Developmental Screening
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Family Support
First 5 San Francisco family resource centers (FRCs) provide a warm, welcoming, and respectful place where families can connect with one another, build parenting skills and knowledge, and receive supports when needed.
served in Family Resource Centers
26 Family Resource Centers provide
- Direct services that ensure children and families are connected and thriving
- Provider training and capacity-building to ensure services are of high quality
Supporting families
Child Development
First 5 San Francisco helps early childhood education programs meet the highest standards of quality to ensure optimal child development and improved outcomes for all children.
Ages 0-5 in Quality Connections Classrooms
413 programs participating in Quality Connections receive
- Quality rating and improvement supports that ensure early learning programs are of the highest quality and enable all children to reach their potential.
Increasing quality
City-funded child care sites re-opened through supports from Quality Partners after COVID stay-at-home orders required their closure in March.
Child Health
Help Me Grow SF brings together families, health care providers, and early educators to ensure that all children receive developmental screenings in early childhood, and that those who need it receive access to early intervention services.
Screened for special needs
Screen. Engage. Respond. Connect.
- Screening and follow-up support to ensure children are identified early and linked to service
- Provider training and support to ensure services are of high quality