Kids First Consulting, LLC

04/16/2026

01/23/2026

Take a few minutes to support families and young children. This toolkit helps to make it easy.

This Day of Action is a critical moment to remind lawmakers of the importance of child care and early learning programs and their impact on young children and their families.

11/27/2025

This article gets to the heart of the child care situation. There is a huge $$ difference between the Market Rate and the True Cost of Care.

At first glance, The Growing Years Early Childhood Center in Manchester doesn’t look like it's financially struggling.

09/19/2025

The Center’s Founding Director, Dr. Jack Shonkoff, recently joined The Do One Better Podcast to discuss why early childhood development is a foundation for a healthy society—and why science, policy, and communities must work together to support children and their caregivers. He also shares insights on his new portfolio of work, Connecting Science + Community.

🎧 Listen here: https://apple.co/4ptSjSL

05/30/2025

Happy Birthday Head Start!

The Head Start program is 60 — and what a journey it’s been. 🎉

Since 1965, Head Start programs have helped millions of children and families build strong foundations through early learning, health, and family support.

Our incredible community continues to make this journey impactful, lasting, and truly full of heart. 💙

04/26/2025

Head Start and Early Head Start changes lives and opens doors for children and their families in every state across the country. Defunding these programs is not an option for children living in poverty.

04/24/2025

Speak out and Step Up for Children. These are programs that support all children’s health, development, and learning.

We urge the Administration to reverse course and for Congress to reject any budget that harms America’s babies and families. The impacts of this proposed budget would be felt for generations, with significant ramifications on our economy and our children’s futures.

Reducing funding for programs that support healthy development and interventions for medical or developmental challenges will result in families delaying or not accessing needed care. And cuts to funding that support the nation’s child care and early education system will lead to higher costs, longer waitlists, and even more barriers to employment.

Tell your Members of Congress to protect funding for essential programs that babies need to thrive: https://bit.ly/4lBxOBq

04/23/2025

Sometimes the best laid plans for fun and learning is having no plan!

It's the kind of day🌫⛈ for... extra long story time under a blanket fort📚, spontaneous dance parties to warm up💃, maybe a pyjama party and puppet show🧦, maybe a movie day with hot chocolate and popcorn🍿, maybe an indoor games day or magic show🤹‍♂️maybe cupcake or cookie decorating 🍪... sometimes it's ok to put away the lesson plan and schedule and say "excuse the mess, the kids are making memories"❤

03/21/2025

Happy World Down Syndrome Day!

03/19/2025

One of the best things that happened in NH for children was the creation of the New Hampshire Office of the Child Advocate. Please call your State Reps and tell them NH’s children must not be on the chopping block.

A working group of the House Finance Committee is recommending the elimination of the independent Office of Child Advocate to save $2 million as budget writers craft a two-year spending