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Early Childhood & Family Engagement

Education starts at birth, and parents are their child’s first teacher

Brain development starts at birth, and most brain development happens before the age of 5. Engaging and supporting families of children in the early years is critical for reducing future obstacles and setting at-promise children up well for their lifelong educational journey.
Our Early Childhood & Family Engagement programs build school readiness in children ages 0 to 5, their families and neighboring schools. We foster catalytic change by working with families and leading community initiatives that improve early childhood systems and access to resources.

Early Head Start

We enrich parental skills, starting with prenatal development, and empower parents to be early childhood and educational advocates. We offer home visits, social and health services, prenatal education and support, educational playgroups and activities, and assistance for families with children who have special needs. Our holistic approach eliminates barriers to success and aids parents in becoming their child’s first teachers and leaders in their communities. We partner with elementary schools to involve parents early in the schools their children will attend.

Community Engagement

Children thrive and families flourish in strong, safe, healthy, and engaged communities where people develop strong and lasting relationships, support each other, and act together to give children the best start possible. LAEP has a deep history of community engagement in the early childhood space, most recently as the manager of the Northeast Valley (NEV) Best Start Community, which empowers the community to address important issues for local families to support kindergarten readiness.

Ready2Teach

Universal access to early childhood education is essential to eliminate educational inequity, but there is a severe shortage of early childhood teachers nationwide. Ready2Teach is a one-year, earn-and-learn program designed to increase the number of qualified infant/toddler teachers across Los Angeles County.

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families impacted through LAEP’s Early Childhood initiatives in 2021-2022

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