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About FTF. Created by Arizona voters, First Things First partners with families and communities to help our state’s young children be ready for success in kindergarten and beyond.
Grants. First Things First invests in strategies and programs that support the development, health and learning of children birth to age 5 (before kindergarten).
Get Involved. First Things First partners with families and communities to give all Arizona children the opportunity to arrive at kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed.
Some FTF regions support a Native Language Preservation Strategy to give families tools to promote their children’s language development.
A new book in the Hualapai language is designed to support efforts to begin teaching the language early to preserve culture and identity.
This year, the importance of teaching young children native language is being highlighted during November’s Native American Heritage Month.
Language expert says maintaining Native American languages in early childhood helps to preserve culture and identity.
The Hualapai Day Care center teachers in Peach Springs focus on preserving the region’s native language by teaching it to the next generation of young…
​​​After almost two years, 7-year-old Lena Montana and her little sister, Alyssa, 5, still carry around their bilingual children’s books filled with…
One of the reasons April Noline enrolled her infant daughter Emma-Jean in the San Carlos Apache Kid Child Care Center was that it provided instruction in the…
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