Community Education
  • Brushing Your Teeth is Fun? With Help from Sesame Workshop and Local Organizations, You Bet – and Here's a Free Kit to Help

    Brushing Your Teeth is Fun? With Help from Sesame Workshop and Local Organizations, You Bet – and Here's a Free Kit to Help

    As part of ongoing efforts to serve families that lack access to regular dental care, the Children and Families Commission of Orange County is partnering with Healthy Smiles For Kids of Orange County to distribute Sesame Street’s free “Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me” kits that promote good dental health habits among children ages 2 to 5. Sesame Workshop partnered with Sam’s Club and the MetLife Foundation to create a bilingual, multi-media initiative that leverages the Sesame Street characters to motivate children and parents to care about children’s dental health.
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  • El Sol Science and Arts Academy

    El Sol Science and Arts Academy

    BIG DREAMS FOR LITTLE MINDS The three and four year olds who make up the preschool classes at El Sol may come from disadvantaged communities, but thanks to El Sol’s comprehensive programs they have every advantage heading into Kindergarten and


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  • Community Involvement in STEM Education

    Community Involvement in STEM Education

    All over Orange County programs are emerging that aim to get children excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). And what could be more fun than making your own robot? Not much, according to kids that have participated in
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