Best Start Metro Los Angeles


Best Start

Where we grow up matters — it can determine if we have access to healthy food, safe places to play, quality medical and child care and ultimately whether a child will survive or truly thrive as they grow into an adult. Best Start is First 5 LA’s new place-based effort, a $450-500 million multiyear investment in 14 communities throughout L.A. County, designed to empower community members and stakeholders to work together and build upon existing services, programs and resources to ensure that children are born healthy, maintain a healthy weight, are safe from abuse and neglect and are ready for kindergarten. To maximize the potential for success in the Best Start communities, it is essential that this effort be driven and informed by the communities themselves.

Best Start Metro LA

In 2009, First 5 LA announced its partnership with Para Los Niños as the convening agency to create, facilitate and support the implementation of the first Best Start community, Metro LA. The Best Start Metro LA community is bounded by Olympic Blvd. to the north, Jefferson Blvd. to the south, San Pedro St. to the east and Normandie Ave. to the west. It includes diverse neighborhoods including parts of Pico-Union, Koreatown, USC North, and South Park in Downtown. 

 
Best Start Metro LA seeks to accomplish the goals of Best Start by supporting a committed partnership between parents, business owners, child and health care providers, community service agencies, faith-based leaders, government officials and other community leaders who will work together to build solid resources for our children, ultimately making our community as a whole stronger. In October, 2010, Best Start Metro LA hosted its official launch, a Community Festival, at Los Angeles Trade Tech College. Over 600 parents and children participated in this, along with 50 organizations serving the Best Start Metro LA community.

If you are interested in learning more about Best Start Metro Los Angeles, click here or please contact Brenda Aguilera at baguilera@paralosninos.

What's New:

On behalf of the Best Start Metro LA Community Guidance Body, the convening team at Para Los Niños and our funders at First 5 LA, we would like to share the application and attachments for round two funding of the Collaborative Partners Call for Projects. We are excited about the opportunity to once again work with you in this established partnership in Best Start Metro LA.

Deadline: Letters of interest and supporting documents must be received electronically by January 9, 5:00pm PST at ycarrillo@paralosninos.org.

Below you will find:

• 2011-2012 Metro LA Collaborative Partners Call for Projects which includes project requirements, instructions on how to apply, time line for proposals, and letter of interest cover page

• Attachment A: Metro LA Collaborative Partner Project Budget Form

• Attachment B: Metro LA Collaborative Partner Project Litigation Form

• Attachment C: Metro LA Collaborative Partner Project Signature Authorization Form

• Attachment D: Metro LA Collaborative Partner Project Proposal Review Tool

Information on how to submit and questions related to the application process may be sent to baguilera@paralosninos.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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