Links

William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund:
The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund works collaboratively to improve education for Connecticut's children.

Child Trends, Inc.:
Child trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan children’s research organization that conducts and disseminates research, designs and evaluates programs, and develops and tests promising approaches in the field of children and their families.

Community Friends:
Community Friends is on Public Access, channel 14, Tuesday nights from 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm. contact Debbie by emailing her at dasunflower@adelphia.net.

National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education, and Families:
This Institute offers conferences, technical assistance, and publications for city officials to help them take action on behalf of the children, youth and families in their communities.

National Institute on Out-of School Time (NIOST):
A wealth of links to sites related out-of-school time research, issues and programming.

Forum For Youth Investment:
Dedicated to changing the odds for children, youth and their families

Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development:
“Lessons in Leadership: How Yong People Change Their Communities and Themselves.” Executive Summary December 2003

The Early Care and Education Collaborative:
This collaborative is a multi-year project consisting of eight state-based child advocacy organizations working on child care issues.

Connecticut Voices for Children:
This group is dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth through high-quality research and public policy analyses. It also consists of an active communications program, a commitment to promoting youth leadership and youth voice, and effective citizen mobilization and organizational collaboration.

Ready, Set, Grow:
Ready, Set, Grow is on a mission to recruit more than 200,000 "Friends of CT's Young Children," and is well on its way with more than 300 Friends to date. Please contact them at Info@readysetgrowctkids.org if you would like Ready to hop on over to you.

Connecticut Parent Power:
A statewide parent action network that strengthens the voices of parents on the many statewide decisions that affect our children and families.

Reasons for Hope Voices for Change (excerpts)
Annenberg Institute on Public Engagement for Public Education.

Children’s Readiness for School:
National Center for Children in Poverty - Working toward a Strategic Policy Framework.

Enhancing the Transition to Kindergarten:
National Center for Early Development & Learning - Linking children, families & schools.

Quality in Child Care Centers:
National Center for Early Development & Learning.

Bully Busters The Greater Norwich Anti-Bullying Coalition Stop the Violence

National Association for the Education of Young Children:
The NAEYC is a national organization dedicated to the improvement of early care education centers, the professionalization of child care workers through training and education and advocacy for early child education and care.

State Education Resource Council (SERC):
This organization is a resource for parents, teachers and other professional who work with children. SERC is home to the education library for the state, and puts on many professional development events and conferences throughout the year.

Birth to Three:
This is a place to go if you are concerned about the development of a child under the age of three years old. They provide services, resources and referrals for families and professionals.

Early Childhood Research and Policy Council:
Governor M. Jodi Rell created the Early Childhood Research and Policy Council to develop a multi-year plan to shape Connecticut's investment to improve school readiness for all children.  The Council functions as an advocacy, data collecting, and policy drafting organization.  It is made up of early childhood experts, philanthropic representatives and advocates.

Building Blocks
Building Blocks aims to provide comprehensive mental health services for children, birth through five, with social emotional challenges and their families in Southeast Connecticut, while expanding the existing system of care to increase the capacity and expertise in  early childhood mental health with science-based information on screening, assessment, referral and early intervention.

The Early Care and Education Collaborative:
The Early Care and Education Collaborative is a multi-year project of seven state-based child advocacy organizations working on child care issues. The Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) coordinates the Collaboration. The project's purpose is to design and implement strategic public education strategies aimed at creating the public will in each of the target states to expand both the supply and the quality of early care and education resources. Further, the Collaborative wants to share "lessons learned" on this unique partnership with the broader child care community.

Presently, the state partners are; Association for Children of New Jersey, Citizens for Missouri's Children, Colorado's Children's Campaign, CT Voices for Children, Kansas Action for Children, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children and Voices for Illinois Children. CCMC is a Washington, DC-based public interest media organization.

Council for Professional Recognition:
Founded in 1985, the Council for Professional Recognition is a nonprofit organization located in Washington, DC. The Council promotes improved performance and recognition of professionals in early childhood care and education — the people who work with children from birth through five years of age in early childhood centers, family child care homes, and as home visitors.

State Department of Education:
Welcome to the Connecticut State Department of Education home page.  We are pleased to provide you with statewide information regarding the educational initiatives, programs and services that we provide.

Connecticut Charts-A-Course:
Connecticut Charts-A-Course is the statewide professional development system for early education and school-age care. Our mission is to support career development and program improvement by promoting the achievement of national and state professional standards.

Accreditation Facilitation Project:
The Connecticut Accreditation Facilitation Project (AFP) is an established resource system of regional teams providing critical leadership and support for the achievement of quality standards and excellence in early childhood programs.