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For Parents.To help you do the best you can, here’s some information, tools and resources for supporting your child’s healthy development and learning.
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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.
More than 1,000 child care and preschool programs in Arizona participate in Quality First, a voluntary program to improve the quality of early learning in ways…
Learn how you can recognize the signs of excessive stress and help your little one through the big emotions that come with it.
Encouraging curiosity in the early years can help your child do better in school.
“One word, ‘connection,’ captures what is happening inside and what is needed from the outside for a young child’s brain.” Read our…
New research from Harvard highlights that early brain development is interconnected. Social-emotional, language and physical skills all build on each other.
We celebrate Children’s Mental Health Awareness in May—a time to remember that a child’s future success depends on socio-emotional and behavioral…
This episode is about the most important and useful things for parents – especially new parents – to know about child development.
Learn how to help your child keep learning and develop social skills.
Learn about setting behavior expectations for preschoolers.
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