Like many Queen Creek families last year, Tori Shank, her husband Nathan, and their infant daughter Kayleen didn’t have a lot of interactions with other families due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As restrictions lessened, it wasn’t until her family met with relatives over the Thanksgiving holiday that Kayleen, who was 17 months at the time, … Read More
Every child develops at their own pace, but there are certain milestones they should reach from birth to 5 years old.
It makes sense, but now there’s research that the more gentle touching the better for a baby’s brain.
Want to support your baby’s physical development? The answer is Tummy Time!
Preamble We believe that every child in Arizona deserves the opportunity to arrive at school healthy and prepared to succeed. We believe that our role is to provide leadership, advocacy, public policies, programs and means to achieve this vision. We believe that the governance and administration of FTF should be conducted according to the laws … Read More
Title: Board Member The Arizona Early Childhood Development & Health Board provides leadership, governance, and vision to FTF as provided in Arizona Revised Statutes, Title 8, Chapter 13, and specifically Section 8-1192. The Board works to achieve the mission and vision of FTF by setting policy and providing oversight and leadership. The vision of FTF … Read More
PHOENIX – May 2, 2017 – Today, First Things First was announced as a Top 25 program in this year’s Innovations in American Government Awards competition by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. As a Top 25 program, First Things First is representing the top … Read More
All Arizonans Urged to Do More to Support Health, Education Improvements PHOENIX – (January 22, 2018) – Almost 1 in 3 young children in Arizona live in poverty, a risk factor for later difficulties, including lower academic achievement. This is just one of the challenges faced by many of Arizona’s almost 550,000 infants, toddlers and … Read More
Getting into things, unrolling the toilet paper and dropping food on the floor are part of how your baby makes sense of the world.