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First 5 LA is a child-advocacy organization created by California voters to invest tobacco tax revenues in programs for improving the lives of children in Los Angeles County, from prenatal through age 5. Since 1998, it has invested more than $699 million in grants and programs to champion the health, education, and safety causes concerning young children and families.

Healthy City is the largest online source of community resource information and demographic, economic, and health data in Los Aangeles County.
Use this website to: • Search for community services
Use this website to: Map community level data
Use this website to: • Inform policy decisions

The Los Angeles Education Coordinating Council is charged with raising the educational achievement of foster and probation youth throughout Los Angeles County, the ECC coordinates efforts across organizations and jurisdictions, encouraging networks of people to work together to expand best practices and fill the gaps in communities where little help or support for families is available.

LACountyHelps is a free and easy way to find out if your family can get help from many different health and human services programs. Try this website to find out if your family might qualify for helpful benefits. LACountyHelps does not ask who you are does not share your information with anyone.

The Office of Child Care supports policy recommendation formulation, planning, and implementation efforts of the County of Los Angeles Policy Roundtable for Child Care and the Child Care Planning Committee to improve the availability, quality, and access to child care in the County of Los Angeles.

The Interagency Operations Group promotes the
County’s vision for children and families by facilitating and
accelerating the implementation of effective, integrated
services and generating solutions to remove operational
barriers.

The mission of the Policy Roundtable for Child Care is to serve as the official County body on all matters relating to child care, working in collaboration with the Child Care Planning Committee and the Children’s Planning Council, to strengthen the child care system and infrastructure in the County by providing policy recommendations to the Board.

The United Way of Greater Los Angeles fights poverty in Los Angeles County with roots in the community dating back to 1924. It is one of the oldest charities in Greater Los Angeles.