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Supervisor Parlin recommending the Board receive and file a presentation from the First 5 El Dorado Commission, El Dorado County Office of Education, and the Library Department on the Community Hubs Project history and plan for future programming and provide direction, if needed.
FUNDING: 63% First 5 El Dorado and 37% General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The First 5 El Dorado Commission (Commission) has invested in Libraries since 2006, expanding access to families with young children. The funding has been used to support early childhood specialists, enhance collections for young children, and build early childhood programming in the library and the community.
The Community Hubs began in 2016 and is a partnership between First 5 El Dorado Commission, the El Dorado County Library and the Office of Education (Hub Partners). The Community Hubs’ vision is to create healthy and strong communities throughout El Dorado County by building resiliency with families through collaborative community-based prevention and early intervention services. Community Hubs are organized by Supervisorial and Educational Districts and provide services in libraries. Each Hub is staffed by a team who offer classes, groups, and activities for expectant parents and families with children ages 0-18 and adults.
In 2021, the partnership revisioned the Community Hubs team model (Hubs 2.0) to having three navigators: one Hub Navigator based at the library to facilitate a connection to services for all community members (birth through death), one Library Navigator to coordinate access to and promotion of library services across all ages, and one Community Navigator to engage populations outside the library who experience barriers to accessing services such as transportation, language, or knowledge.
Over the last eight years, Hub Partners have leveraged multiple funding streams to provide a broad array of Hub services and supports, reaching 16,186 children under the age of fiv...
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