Ana Bribiesca has been selected as the 2021 First Things First Yuma Region Champion for Young Children.<\/p>\n
The award is given to local champions who actively volunteer their time to raise public awareness of the importance of early childhood development and health. Champions spend a significant amount of time volunteering with FTF and building public awareness about the importance of early childhood issues.<\/p>\n
Bribiesca is an Early Literacy and Early Childhood Professional Development Program Coordinator for Arizona PBS in Yuma County. She has become well known throughout Yuma County as an active, strong advocate for early childhood awareness and sharing the importance of early childhood with the families of Yuma County.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She also shares FTF\u2019s role in providing services to the Yuma community and the broad advocacy role FTF has taken during the years to work toward total inclusion of the early childhood community and the various school districts within Yuma County.<\/p>\n
We recently caught up with Bribiesca.<\/p>\n
Question: Why do you feel early childhood development and health is so important? \u00a0As a professional in the early childhood field, I know the benefit of providing early childhood and health services to all children. When children are developing in a healthy, safe, nurtured and educational environment they thrive to become great leaders to our communities.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Answer:\u00a0<\/strong>Early childhood development and health compliments each other in the growth of a child. It is critical for a child to have a healthy body to develop a healthy brain. Children who have a healthy development can learn to socialize, connect and explore the world around them and in return they become stable, responsible, caring healthy adults.<\/p>\n