Best Start Wilmington (BSW) is a First 5 LA initiative steered by Providence Little Company of Mary San Pedro with collaboration from The Nonprofit Partnership of Long Beach.
The Best Start initiative is a community-led program with a focus on community’s priorities in creating systems change. We strive to strengthen and elevate community-based approaches and projects that help improve the lives of children prenatal to age 5.
Best Start Wilmington’s work is a platform for parents, residents, community-based organizations, and advocacy groups to build stronger relationships, mobilize, and act together to directly support children’s wellbeing. Advocating for improvements in policies, services, and investments that benefit children and their families.
It is through our Collaboration, Priorities, and Mission and driven work that we improve lives for children prenatal to age 5 and their families, within the surrounding Best Start Wilmington Communities of Carson, Gardena, Harbor City, Lomita, Torrance, San Pedro, and Wilmington.
The priorities have been identified through a community-centered process involving our Best Start Partnership, which consists of parents, caregivers, Wilmington residents, and organizational representatives within our surrounding communities!
Many discussions have led to determining these Best Start Wilmington priorities that ground all of our work that you can participate in through annual programs, Partnership meetings, seasonal events, leadership opportunities and many more!