Category: Stories

First 5 Humboldt Staff Development

September 2023 • Stories
As an agency, First 5 Humboldt supports our staff to bring the best and most up-to-date practices to our Humboldt community. To that end, staff…
Read more >
Preschool teacher with musical instruments & group of young children

Listening Sessions gather data from Child Care Providers

September 2023 • Stories
Feedback solicited from the Humboldt child care community A group of small children with a male teacher sitting on the floor indoors in the classroom,…
Read more >

Healing from Toxic Stress

August 2022 • Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=845tgPoIB_g “If we all understand our role in being a source of buffering care to a young person in need, that is truly transformative. ACEs…
Read more >

Self-Care Kits for Workshop Attendance

July 2022 • Stories
First 5 Humboldt sponsored an evening workshop presented by Nature Explore for Childcare Providers during our Spring 2022 Symposium. The "Heart Centered Self-Care" workshop focused…
Read more >

Family Movie Nights Offer Opportunity for Community, Social-Emotional Learning

June 2022 • Stories
First 5 Humboldt has already sponsored two free Family Movie Nights in partnership with the Arcata Playhouse in their Circus Tent in Arcata. It made…
Read more >
computer-like chart with self-development in the middle

IMPACT Participants completed a total of 757.5 Professional Development hours in 2021-2022

June 2022 • Stories
The First-5-California-funded program, Improve and Maximize Programs so All Children Thrive (IMPACT) just completed the second year of its grant cycle. The IMPACT program is…
Read more >
Preschool girl with triangle in focus in front; other children with drum in blurred background

Engagement Through Music

April 2022 • Stories
A father at a play group came to me after a music session and said he had waited for months for his son to show…
Read more >
CA capitol building

Advocating for Early Childhood Mental Health

March 2022 • Stories
Earlier this month, First 5 Humboldt Executive Director, Mary Ann Hansen, spoke before the Assembly Budget Subcommittees 1 & 2, and the Select Committee on…
Read more >
3 preschool children on log outside holding hands with arms raised

ACES Grant Funds Books for Belonging

March 2022 • Stories
McKinleyville Family Resource Center staff and Stepping Stone Diversity Consultanting partner, Aristea Saulsbury wrote and are now implementing a First 5 ACES funded grand to…
Read more >