Links
(updated 10/2/06)

Supporting Organizations:

Child Care Resource & Referral - Appleton. Welcome to Child Care Resource & Referral, Inc., serving Calumet, Outagamie and Waupaca Counties. CCRR is a community based non-profit agency that works with parents, child care providers, employers and the community to help promote the availability of quality child care services.

The Registry Wisconsin's Recognition System for the Childhood Care and Education Profession, acknowledges and highlights the training, experience and professionalism that is vital to quality child care.

WECA is a statewide, nonprofit organization serving as a professional association whose members care for and educate Wisconsin’s children, aged birth to eight. We are an affiliate of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

NAEYC National Association for the Education of Young Children

CollaboratingPartners.com - Looking for a start to your collaborative process? Or more information on assessment tools or curriculum in the early education area? How about sample agreements and contracts used by successful collaborative partners? This is the place!

Wisconsin Child Care Research Partnership - Early Education Matters - This link reports on the results of 2 years of funding and activities of this organization. The Wisconsin Child Care Research Partnership conducts ongoing research that helps answer the question: What is the quality of child care in Wisconsin? Organizations in 21 Wisconsin communities received up to $10,000 each to initiate collaborative, community-based 4-year-old kindergarten program from WCCF. The grants were used in communities planning to develop community-based, collaborative 4-year-old kindergarten. Grant funds covered start-up costs including feasibility studies, program planning and modeling, early learning standards training, location planning, consensus building, site visits, public awareness activities, and community surveys.

Wisconsin Council on Children and Families - The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Inc. is a nonprofit, multi-issue child and family advocacy agency. Headquartered in Madison, the Council's mission is to promote the well-being of children and families in Wisconsin by advocating for effective and efficient health, education, and human service delivery systems. WCCF accomplishes this through educational conferences; on-going projects like W-2 Watch (Wisconsin's Welfare Reform), Wisconsin Budget Project, and Great Beginnings (our early childhood brain development initiative); and publications like the WisKids Count Data Books and Juvenile Justice Pipeline.

Child Trends, Research in the Service of Children - Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families.  In advancing its mission, Child Trends collects and analyzes data; conducts, synthesizes, and disseminates research; designs and evaluates programs; and develops and tests promising approaches to research in the field.

Continuing Education

T.E.A.C.H. The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood^® (Teacher Education and Compensation Helps) Wisconsin Scholarship and Bonus Program provides scholarships for early childhood and school age providers to attend technical or private colleges or universities to achieve a higher educational level, by completing a specific educational path.

Health & Nutrition:

Wisconsin Local Health Department Listings.

Tiny Tummies offers a bimonthly newsletter, by subscription, with lots of great information on feeding children and helping them learn about food and nutrition.

Wisconsin Child Nutrition Programs & On-line Services - responsible for a variety of nutrition education initiatives that involve collaboration with other state agencies, UW-Extension, and regional and statewide child nutrition advocacy groups.

Relevant Articles and Organizations

Pre-K Now. Pre-K Now is a public education and advocacy organization that advances high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three and four year olds. Supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and other funders and a project of the Institute for Educational Leadership,
Pre-K Now:
* supports state-based children's advocates;
* educates policymakers about the need for pre-k; and
* raises public awareness about the need for pre-k for all children.
Pre-K Now is a trusted resource for policy information and a strong partner for pre-k advocacy.

Economic Development and Early Childhood Describes the relationship between early care and education and economic development in Wisconsin. Defines the economic sector, describes potential roles for employers and provides some insight into the relationship between early learning and workforce development. January 2006. (PDF File)

Early Childhood and Economic Development: A Brief Synopsis of Research Reports Pertinent to Wisconsin A brief guide for economic developers to the economic impact literature of early childhood as it can be applied to Wisconsin. These studies document the three general ways in which early childhood care and economic development are related. January 2006. (PDF File)

CED's EARLY EDUCATION PROJECT (Committee for Economic Development) - Since the 2002 release of its groundbreaking early education report, Preschool for All: Investing in a Productive and Just Society, CED has been engaged in an aggressive national campaign to build momentum surrounding investment in early education. The report calls for free, high quality preschool education for all children age 3 and over who have not yet entered kindergarten.