First Five Guiding Principles
| 1. The overarching goal of
First Five California is to promote
children's healthy
development and school readiness. |
| 2. Support families as children's primary caregivers
and first teachers.
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| 3. Respond to the voices and views of parents,
caregivers,
and children.
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| 4. Ensure that families from all of California's
culturally,
linguistically, and geographically diverse
populations, including those with special needs, can connect
to a system of services that is easy to access, use, and understand,
and that meets their individual needs to support their children's
healthy development and school readiness.
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| 5. Maximize the use of all available local,
state, federal, and
private resources to target and improve services
for young children and their families.
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| 6. Incorporate the highest quality researched-based
program
standards.
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| 7. Build on the foundation of existing state
and local expertise and
capacity and work to increase it.
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| 8. Provide a laboratory for exploring promising
practices and a
forum for exchanging information about practices
that could be effective statewide.
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| 9. Focus on results, using results-based assessment
and
evaluation of local and state programs and
strategies.
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| 10. Promote policy and system improvement. |
