Free Wifi Hotspots and community wifi are crucial now more than ever to local Monterey County families. Click here for a map of FREE wireless internet access for students and families across Salinas. And click here to learn how to access FREE wifi in …
Maternal Mental Health
#KnowMomFacts Earlier this month, September 7-11, was Maternal Suicide Awareness Week. Bright Beginnings joined the campaign, launched by 2020 Mom in 2018, to raise awareness and remember moms lost to maternal suicide, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality. For years there …
In Monterey County, ALL Children Count
Deadline to Complete 2020 Census Is September 30 Do young children live at your address? They belong on your 2020 Census, even if you’re not their parent. Help us ensure that ALL kids in Monterey County are counted so that our community gets …
Going Back to Our Core
The Bright Beginnings Early Childhood Development Initiative was built on seven core principles — find them on page four of the countywide Strategic Framework. These principles are our guiding constellation as we design and prioritize our work. When the going gets …
September 18 | Weekly Digest: COVID-19 Response & Recovery for Child Care & Wellbeing
COVID-19 Response & Recovery Plan Our goal is to ensure that young children have quality, nurturing, and safe child care and education as physical distancing and other guidelines continue in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next Coalition Call …
September 11 | Weekly Digest: COVID-19 Response & Recovery for Child Care & Wellbeing
COVID-19 Response & Recovery Plan Our goal is to ensure that young children have quality, nurturing, and safe child care and education as physical distancing and other guidelines continue, to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next Child Care Planning Council meeting …
September 3 | Weekly Digest: COVID-19 Response & Recovery for Child Care & Wellbeing
COVID-19 Response & Recovery Plan Our goal is to ensure that young children have quality, nurturing, and safe child care and education as physical distancing and other guidelines continue, to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next Coalition Call is Wednesday, …
August 28 | Weekly Digest: COVID-19 Response & Recovery for Child Care & Wellbeing
COVID-19 Response & Recovery Plan Our goal is to ensure that young children have quality, nurturing, and safe child care and education as physical distancing and other guidelines continue, to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next Coalition Call is Wednesday, …
Facebook Live: Navigating Distance Learning with Your Children
Parents are invited to join Dr. Susan Swick, the physician in chief of Ohana, a center for child and adolescent behavioral health at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, for a Facebook Live Q&A on Tuesday, August 25 from 4:30 – 5:30pm. Dr. …
Healthy & Safe
Supporting Our Local Child Care & Education Providers Bright Beginnings and the COVID-19 Child Care & Wellbeing Response & Recovery Coalition helped secure and distribute supplies, including personal protection equipment, to help sanitize child care settings and keep caregivers, educators, and children …