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A backyard playground with a playhouse, artificial turf, slide and play tunnel.

Tucson home care provider expands her capacity to care for more children

  • child care

Home-based child care providers, like Camila’s Playhouse, are a home away from home where children are treated as members of the family.
FTF CEO Melinda Morrison Gulick stands at a podium speaking at the United Way breakfast event.

Tucson business and education community show up in a big way for early childhood at awards breakfast

  • early childhood

The breakfast, Early Education is Everyone’s Business, brought together more than 600 business leaders and educators to champion the cause.
Steve Lynn, Awarded the 2024 Business Champion for Early Education Award at the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Women United Business Breakfast in Tucson

FTF State Board Vice Chair honored as business champion for early education

  • board

The award recognizes someone who has significantly contributed to the quality and access of early education in Tucson and southern Arizona. 

Tucson preschool teacher gains more understanding of trauma-informed care practices

  • Pima North

The First Things First Pima North Regional Partnership Council funds Great Expectations providing early childhood practitioners access to professional…
Donal Drayne, Pima North 2023 Champion for Young Children

Donal Drayne is the Pima North Region Champion

  • Champion for Young Children

Donal Drayne has been selected as the 2023 First Things First Pima North Region Champion for Young Children. The award is given to local champions who are…
A home visitor works with the family and a small child in their home on a puzzle. Retaining home visitors.

Retaining home visitors is one way to ensure family success

  • home visitation

As the largest funder of home visitation programs in Arizona, FTF is working with other state funders to support the home visiting workforce.
reading corner for babies, mom reading book to newborn baby

FTF Partner and Tucson Medical Center create reading corner for babies in NICU

  • Pima North

The reading corner in the Tucson Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) needed a little love, a certain something special to get parents and…

Amphi Parents as Teachers program helps Tucson parents teach daughters life skills

  • home visitation

The FTF Pima North Regional Partnership Council funds the Parents as Teachers program, which provides parents with free, in-home visits from a parent educator.
2022 Champions for Young Children Award, early childhood champions

2022 FTF Champions helping their community better understand the importance of the early years

  • AZ communities

FTF is honoring early childhood champions throughout Arizona who actively volunteer to raise awareness of the importance of early childhood.

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