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About FTF. Created by Arizona voters, First Things First partners with families and communities to help our state’s young children be ready for success in kindergarten and beyond.
Grants. First Things First invests in strategies and programs that support the development, health and learning of children birth to age 5 (before kindergarten).
Get Involved. First Things First partners with families and communities to give all Arizona children the opportunity to arrive at kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed.
The FTF 2019 annual report details working with communities and families to promote school readiness in Arizona’s young children.
Arizona grocery shoppers will have the opportunity in September to help Arizona’s youngest children learn, grow and succeed through a register promotion.
U.S. Census officials are asking early childhood supporters to help ensure all infants, toddlers and preschoolers are counted.
The long-term implications of expulsion and suspension for early elementary school students show that they are at a greater risk of being expelled again.
Kristen Grimm is the opening keynote speaker for the 2019 Summit. She shares her ideas about advocacy and creating social change.
The Avondale family resource center is a centralized hub of not only services for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, but a wide-range of social and human…
The goal of Linking Leaders is to connect center owners, directors and teachers with resources that raise the quality of the children’s environments.
An FTF-funded professional development program helped a Tohono O’odham preschool teacher earn college credit for her degree.
In-depth professional development has helped southern Arizona early childhood educators earn college credit and work toward degrees in early childhood.
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