HALF MOON BAY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Out of more than 300 applicants, Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (ALAS) was selected as one of only five organizations in the U.S. to receive a prestigious $200,000 national research grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to advance the Colibrí Child Wellness Program (CCWP). CCWP is a community-driven initiative developed in partnership with Stanford University School of Medicine. ALAS will lead a pilot through the Early Childhood Systems Alignment Initiative (ECSA) to improve access to integrated, culturally responsive early childhood clinical and developmental care for Latino and farmworker families on California’s San Mateo County Coastside.
This collaboration is led in partnership with the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics team at Stanford University School of Medicine. The initiative builds on more than a decade of trauma-informed, culturally grounded work and seeks to redesign fragmented early childhood systems by centering trusted community infrastructure – local parents, farmworkers, and educators who are trained in research design and meet biweekly to co-develop and approve all research activities. Guided by the principle of cultura cura (“culture cures”), the program directly addresses systemic barriers in early childhood care, including language inaccessibility, fragmented referrals, disinvestment in clinical infrastructure, and institutional distrust.
ALAS Receives Prestigious National Research Grant to Advance the Colibrí Child Wellness Program
