COVID-19 Response & Recovery Coalition

Bright BeginningsAdvocacy, Community

Weekly Digest Since early stages of the countywide COVID-19 precautions, a coalition of early childhood champions is working to provide coordinated support and solutions for emergency care, education, and wellbeing of young children. After close to two months of working …

2020 Mom Annual Forum

Bright BeginningsAdvocacy, Community, Events

Recap | February 12-13 The Monterey County Maternal Mental Health Task Force hosted the Maternal Mental Health Forum Webcast on February 12th and 13th. The webcast provided local providers, social workers, policymakers, and change-agents a chance to learn how we can all do more for …

Bright Spots in Our Community

Bright BeginningsAdvocacy, Community, Events

Recap from Bright Futures’ Annual Breakfast The Bright Futures’ cradle to career education partnership hosts a recognition event honoring Bright Spots in our community, where child and youth programs and schools are achieving results that outpace the State and the County. At this year’s event, …

Coming Together in New Ways

Bright BeginningsAdvocacy, Community

For many, this is a time when doing all we can to support our community means staying home and keeping our distance. For others — the essential workers that are taking care of our holistic needs like early childhood educators, health care …

Census 2020

Bright BeginningsAdvocacy, Community

Every Child Counts Every 10 years the U.S. Census Bureau collects data about every person living in the U.S., which is then used to make sure that communities get the right number of representatives in government and helps determine how …