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First 5 Alpine reports early learning and mobile family resource center progress
Summary
First 5 Alpine reported midyear activity: Alpine County has 40 children age 0–5, the Early Learning Center served '10 or 20' children in the first half-year, and a Mobile Family Resource Center launched in January with Salesforce contracted for data tracking.
Amy Broadhurst, executive director of First 5 Alpine, told the board March 17 that Alpine County’s population of children age 0–5 is 40 and that the Early Learning Center served “10 or 20 children” in the first half of the current fiscal year.
Broadhurst said the center’s developmental-screening rate is high (staff reported 95 percent of enrolled children received developmental screenings) and that program supports include First 5 funds, California State Preschool Program money, parent tuition and a school-district contribution approaching $500,000 to keep the program operating. She said First 5 contracted with Salesforce and Cloud Creations to develop a database for the Mobile Family Resource Center (MFRC), which began implementation in January and is making monthly visits to three county locations.
Board members thanked Broadhurst for the report and asked staff to engage the incoming superintendent in July on child care and funding ideas. Broadhurst said the MFRC’s evaluation framework will track service quantities and short-term outcomes to inform program refinement.
The board received the midyear report; no formal action was taken at the meeting.
