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Family Resource Centers

The goal of FIRST 5’s Family Resource Center Initiative is to give Santa Clara County families the skills and capacity to promote their children’s development, ensure their children’s school readiness, build strong family relationships, and create a connected community. This network of Family Resource Centers (FRCs) throughout Santa Clara County increases family access to services and provides parents/caregivers with opportunities to become more involved in their child’s development and school readiness.

FIRST 5’s Family Resource Center Initiative may experience changes as part of our current community investment redesign process. You can read more about these changes here.

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    ParentChild+ Language for Educare

    ParentChild+ uses education to break the cycle of poverty for low-income families. The program engages early in life with toddlers and their parents to provide a path to possibility.

    During the two program cycles, an early learning specialist, who lives or has worked in the neighborhood and shares a language and cultural background with the family, arrives at the family’s home bearing books and educational toys for twice a week, half-hour visits to model engaging children in educational activities and support parents as they take on the role of their children’s first teachers.

    Over the course of the program, families share a love of learning and experience success that will last a lifetime and will change their lives. 

    Bring Me A Book

    Literacy studies overwhelmingly agree that an important ingredient for children learning to read is having books in the home. Children need quality books and an easily accessible place to keep them. Based on these needs, we were inspired to make a small bookcase we call a Book Cubby. Parents and children paint and decorate the drawer to make it personal for each child. It then becomes the child’s home library.

    A critically important aspect of providing Book Cubbies is the interactive Family Workshop where we share ideas with parents about how they can read to their children and how much that will help their children learn. Children then select new books to take home and keep in their cubby.