{"id":397360,"date":"2025-09-02T19:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/?p=397360"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:50:25","slug":"free-childcare-in-ventura-for-children-6-weeks-to-5-years-in-low-income-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/blog\/2025\/09\/02\/free-childcare-in-ventura-for-children-6-weeks-to-5-years-in-low-income-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Learning Programs for Children under 5 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easterseals Ventura County &#8211; Child Development Center delivers nurturing, inclusive early learning environments led by caring educators. Easterseals Child Development Services serve families with children from birth to 5 years old through programs, including Head Start, Early Head Start and the California State Preschool Program. Easterseals offers high-quality early learning programs for families who qualify.\u00a0 Most services are free; however, in Ventura, the California State Preschool Program may have a small fee based on income.<\/p>\n<p>To get a snapshot of which communities Easterseals serves and the services available at each location, please <a href=\"https:\/\/socal.easterseals.com\/get-support\/areas-of-support\/child-development-services\/ventura-county-child-development-center\">click here<\/a> to visit the Easterseals website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easterseals Ventura County &#8211; Child Development Center delivers nurturing, inclusive early learning environments led by caring educators. Easterseals Child Development Services serve families with children from birth to 5 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":395127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basic-assistance-community-events","category-education-community-events","category-support-for-parents-and-families-community-events"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:40:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}