FIRST 5 Santa Clara County’s Early Learning Initiative is a comprehensive, integrated, systematic approach to improve the quality of early learning and increase school’s readiness to meet the needs of children in Santa Clara County. The initiative is built on the following principles that all children deserve access to.
Community Indicators
This dashboard presents trends in community indicators that tell us about the well-being of children and families in Santa Clara County.
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Quality Matters Annual Snapshot
This program is a community partnership focused on increasing the quality of licensed early learning programs serving children ages birth through 5 in Santa Clara County.
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Universal Access Pilot Snapshot
The Universal Access Pilot is a macro-level prevention framework involved in the development, implementation, and testing of an integrated resource navigation approach intended to close the achievement gap for families in the Franklin-McKinley and Alum Rock districts.
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School Readiness Program
Santa Clara County 2018 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment
This snapshot presents the results of the countywide Kindergarten Readiness assessment conducted in 2018.
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Early Childhood Assets
This snapshot describes the ways in which early childhood assets are linked to kindergarten readiness.
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Resilience and School Readiness
This snapshot describes the ways in childhood resilience is linked to kindergarten.
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School Readiness Amongst Vietnamese Students
This snapshot describes the differences in kindergarten readiness amongst ethnic groups, particularly Vietnamese children.