Strategic Plan Priority 1: 
Health and Well-Being

Prenatal Services  

BabyFirst Solano

$4,425,999 to provide a partnership system of care in Solano that supports and educates pregnant and parenting women to deliver healthy and substance free babies. The goal is that all babies will be born healthy and live in a nurturing environment where they will thrive.

Health Access/Children’s Health Initiative

Solano Coalition for Better Health

Up to $834,543 to ensure that low- to mid-income children access health coverage.

Early Childhood Mental Health Initiative

Children’s Nurturing Project

Up to $298,692 to provide continued mental health, developmental and behavioral screening for newborns, infants and toddlers and for referrals to special needs services.

Child Start, Inc.

Up to $103,314 for behavioral and mental health services to Head Start students.

Families First, Inc.

Up to $802,259 to provide mental health services for young children and their families.

Children’s Nurturing Project

Up to $74,952 to provide continued substance-abuse related parent education.

Children’s Nurturing Project

Up to $100,000 to develop an Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) Strategic Plan, make recommendations to the First 5 Solano Commission regarding deployment of ECMH funding, and to convene ECMH partners to collaborate on system change efforts and best practices.

Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and
Treatment (EPSDT) Initiative

Solano County Health & Social Services

Up to $300,000 to provide mental health services to Medi-Cal eligible children ages 0-5.

Strategic Plan Priority 2:
Early Childhood Learning and Development

Quality Child Care Improvement Initiative

Children’s Network of Solano County

Up to $132,909 to actively assist the child care and community development sectors in their work together to support and streamline the process of financing, constructing and managing child care facilities.

Child Start, Inc.

Up to $407,999 to promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to children and families who are enrolled in Head Start.

Children’s Network of Solano County

Up to $77,273 to improve the lives of children and families by encouraging partnerships, promoting the use of data, developing resources and tools, and emphasizing the importance of outcomes and results.

Children’s Network of Solano County

Up to $398,726 to increase the professional development and education levels of participating members of the child care workforce.

Comprehensive Approaches to  Raising Educational Standards (CARES) Initiative

Children’s Network – (CARES)

Up to $1,040,000 plus matching funds from First 5 California to the Children’s Network of Solano County for the CARES child care quality improvement program.

School Readiness Initiative

Vallejo City Unified School District

Up to $854,600 to provide services to help parents prepare their young children to enter school healthy, learning and ready to reach their greatest potential in the Loma Vista Elementary School catchment area.

Vacaville Unified School District

Up to $830,000 to provide services to help parents prepare their young children to enter school healthy, learning and ready to reach their greatest potential in the Markham Elementary School catchment area.

Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District

Up to $882,044 to provide services to help parents prepare their young children to enter school healthy, learning and ready to reach their greatest potential in the Anna Kyle Elementary School catchment areas.

Dixon Unified School District

Up to $868,000 to provide services to help parents prepare their young children to enter school healthy, learning and ready to reach their greatest potential in the Silveyville Primary School catchment area.

First 5 Solano

Up to $140,594 for AmeriCorps members in the Loma Vista Elementary, Anna Kyle Elementary, Markham Elementary, and Silveyville Primary school catchment areas (in partnership with First 5 Association of California/Prevent Child Abuse California).

Strategic Plan Priority 3: 
Family Support and Parent Education

Family Support Initiative

City of Benicia Police Department

Up to $122,588 to provide information and referral, case management, and home visiting services to at-risk families with children ages 0-5 living in the city of Benicia.

Dixon Family Services

Up to $159,679 to provide information and referral, case management, and home visiting services to at-risk families with children ages 0-5 living in the city of Dixon.

Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District

Up to $379,400 to provide information and referral, case management, and home visiting services to at-risk families with children ages 0-5 living in the cities of Fairfield and Suisun.

Fighting Back Partnership

Up to $444,487 to provide information and referral, case management, and home visiting services to at-risk families with children ages 0-5 living in the city of Vallejo.

Rio Vista CARE

Up to $179,295 to provide information and referral, case management, and home visiting services to at-risk families with children ages 0-5 living in the city of Rio Vista

City of Vacaville Police Department

Up to $121,632 to provide information and referral, case management, and home visiting services to at-risk families with children ages 0-5 living in the city of Vacaville.

California Hispanic Commission on Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Up to $241,090 to provide substance abuse specialist services as part of the Integrated Family Support Initiative’s multi-disciplinary home-visiting team, for intensive services to high-risk families.

Children’s Nurturing Project

Up to $71,089 to provide parenting classes to isolated families and convene a weekly support group for parents of children with special needs.

Interfaith Council of Solano County

Up to $42,670 to provide temporary housing/shelter to homeless families with children ages 0-5 living in the Heather House Homeless Shelter.

Solano County Health & Social Services

Up to $463,635 to provide Child Protective Services Worker and Public Health Nurse services as part of the Integrated Family Support Initiative’s multi-disciplinary home-visiting team, for intensive services to high-risk families.

Youth and Family Services

Up to $210,181 to provide substance abuse specialist services as part of the Integrated Family Support Initiative’s multi-disciplinary home-visiting team, for intensive services to high-risk families.

Children’s Network of Solano County

Up to $417,591 to coordinate the IFSI multi-disciplinary case conferencing team to develop a holistic family treatment plan, convene IFSI partners, share best practices, strengthen existing family support services, and connect service providers to research-based parenting programs.

Internally Run Programs

AmeriCorps/
First 5 Solano

Up to $140,594 for AmeriCorps members in the Loma Vista Elementary, Anna Kyle Elementary, Markham Elementary, and Silveyville Primary school catchment areas (in partnership with First 5 Association of California/Prevent Child Abuse California).

Kits for New Parents/
First 5 Solano

Up to $25,000 to provide Kits for New Parents with parenting information, advice and useful tips first-time parents need to best prepare for the joys and challenges that lie ahead (partnership with First 5 California).

Community Engagement/
First 5 Solano

Up to $50,000 to oversee the implementation of the First 5 Solano Communications Plan to support the work of the Commission, particularly in the areas of community engagement, increased commissioner community involvement and community activities related to strategic planning.

Co-Sponsorship of Conferences and Grantwriting/ First 5 Solano

Up to $40,000 for education and co-sponsorship of conferences and training events is to contribute to improving the capacity of individuals and organizations in Solano County to serve expectant parents, children ages 0-5 and their families; and to strategically leverage First 5 Solano funds to bring additional funding to Solano County for services or providers supports for services to expectant parents, children ages 0-5 and their families.

Preschool for All/ First 5 Solano

Up to $50,000 for coordination and facilitation of Solano Preschool for All Plan implementation activities.

Capital Projects

Capital Projects

A Child’s Place

Up to $72,030 for the purchase of a vacant lot to expand the child care facility and enhance the playground area

Affordable Housing Affiliation

Up to $75,000 to complete the interior of a child development center being constructed in tangent with a housing project

Bert and Ernie’s Preschool

Up to $65,000 for the conversion of an adjacent building into an infant and toddler center increasing the agency’s childcare slots

Child Haven, Inc.

Up to $280,000 to augment funding for the building of an addition and the purchase of equipment for the expansion of mental health services for children 0-5, particularly the enhancement of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) facilities

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