Reports and Publications

The following Reports and Publications are available for free download as Adobe PDFs.

The Healthy Development of Arizona's Youngest Children (844 KB)
The Healthy Development of Arizona's Youngest Children This report, focused on young children, was created as a collaboration between FTF and Saint Luke’s Health Initiatives’ Arizona Health Survey in order to take stock of where Arizona stands today.

Building Bright Futures: Arizona's Early Childhood Opportunities 2011 Report (2.2 MB)
Building Bright Futures is First Things First’s biennial assessment on the needs of young children in Arizona. This report gives all Arizonans a starting place for conversations about the challenges faced by children birth to 5 years old and how their communities can best meet those needs.

First Things First 2011 Annual Report (1.66 MB)
The First Things First Annual Report contains personal stories, statistics and financial data that demonstrate the breadth of the early education and health services funded by First Things First and the impact those programs have on children and families throughout Arizona.

Policy Brief: Measuring Quality in Early Childhood Education (1.38 MB)
First Things First examines the need for a quality rating and improvement system, and how Quality First can standardize and help improve early child care in Arizona.

Ready for School. Set for Life: Creating the Model Early Childhood System. (1.42 MB)
This document is the result of the convening of the Arizona Early Childhood Taskforce in the spring and summer of 2010. It defines the ideal system of early childhood development and health in Arizona and articulates First Things First's role within that early childhood system.

First Things First 2010 Annual Report (1.80 MB)

Vision for Early Childhood Home Visiting in Arizona - Plan of Action (1.34 MB)
The purpose of this action plan is to position Arizona for the provision of home visiting services as part of an overall system of early childhood development and to provide a framework for future growth and development of this effective strategy.

Building Bright Futures: Arizona’s Early Childhood Opportunities 2009 Report (9.2 MB)

First Things First Annual Report 2008-2009 (1.2 MB)

Family and Community Report: A Baseline Report on Families and Coordination (1.00 MB)
This report provides baseline report on the current state of parents’ knowledge about children’s early development and parents’ perceptions of the resources currently available for young children and their families in Arizona. The results help identify parents’ current knowledge about early development as well as the areas in which families need additional support to access needed services for their child/children.

Arizona Early Childhood Coordination and Collaboration: A Baseline Report (1.17 MB)
This report provides baseline measurement of the degree to which early childhood services work together in Arizona. The FTF Partner Survey will be administered on a yearly basis to evaluate ongoing progress toward FTF coordination and family support goals and improvements in early childhood collaboration.

A Decade of Data: The Compensation and Credentials of Arizona’s Early Care and Education Workforce (1.32 MB)
This report marks ten years in which trends can be identified by comparing survey results from 1997 to 2007. Longitudinal findings in the areas of wages, benefits, length of employment, and education levels of the ECE workforce were analyzed.

First Things First 2007-2008 Annual Report (1.86 MB)

Building Bright Futures: 2007 Needs and Assets Assessment (32.9 MB)
This report creates a baseline that allows First Things First to measure progress, as well as determine how best to invest resources that will improve the lives of young children and their families. Building Bright Futures provides direction at the community level as well.