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Our name, First Up, confidently embodies our core commitment to early educators. It asserts that those first relationships that children develop with family, caregivers, and early childhood professionals are crucial in creating a path forward to success. While our name may have changed over the years, we remain dedicated to our mission of ensuring educational opportunity for every child in our community... First Up offers an exceptional array of workshops, leading-edge conferences, and programs of the highest quality to help ECE Professionals achieve best practice... Over the last 50 years, First Up has made many significant, positive impacts on the Early Childhood Education ("ECE") sector in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Our technical assistance team has helped hundreds of early childhood programs reach national accreditation standards. Our advocacy team has created a statewide grassroots advocacy network that has grown to more than 3,000 individuals and organizations working each day..

Also known as: First Up

Primary location: Philadelphia United States