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First 5 Sacramento warns of state and federal funding risks to early-childhood services
Summary
Executive Director Julie Galaylo told the commission Jan. 12 that recent county and proposed state funding changes and a federal funding freeze threaten local home‑visiting, dental and childcare services, and First 5 Sacramento is coordinating advocacy.
At the Jan. 12 meeting of the First 5 Sacramento Commission, Executive Director Julie Galaylo described multiple funding pressures that could reduce local early‑childhood services.
Galaylo said Sacramento County experienced a prior reduction of about $1,000,000 in CalWORKs home‑visiting allocations and a further $750,000 cut the past year; public‑health partners absorbed the most recent reduction to maintain Birth & Beyond services, but staff warned there is…
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