First 10 Blog

For many families, kindergarten is when the gaps among the systems supporting a young child become impossible to ignore. By then, children may already have relationships with early childhood educators, health providers, libraries, and other community organizations. When those institutions are not connected, families may have to start over, educators...

The First 10 Network launched in 2022 as a way to connect First 10 communities to one another so that they can learn about and build on each other’s innovations and adapt them to meet...

The Campaign for Grade-level Reading webinar, First 10 Community Partnerships in Action, was an opportunity to hear from communities about how they are implementing First 10 strategies to build cohesive supports for children, ages 0...

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First 10 is excited to share the first in a series of short videos to spotlight the work of First 10 partnerships nationwide. In First 10, community agencies, families, Head Start, child care, preK, and...

We are really excited to have this discussion with a fantastic panel of First 10 leaders. First 10 school-community partnerships bring together elementary schools, early childhood programs and community organizations to improve outcomes for children...

In our September First 10 Network webinar, we learned about a great example of county—community collaboration on First 10. We heard from Amanda Burns and Meg May from the Community Action Partnership (CAP) of Lancaster...

A community of practice brings together people around a common interest to share best practices and create new actionable knowledge. We launched our community of practice with a webinar that brought together representatives from our...