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Plan Together

Using a Racial Equity Lens in Community Systems Development

In 2020, the Community Systems Statewide Supports team adopted a definition and compiled resources to help contextualize the work and facilitate conversations for collaborations.

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Work Together

How Can We Get More Parents Involved in Collaboration Work?

In 2021, the Community Systems Statewide Supports team launched its parent engagement resources, including on-demand learning modules, videos, and the publication, "A Handbook for Community Engagement: Engaging Parents in Early Childhood Collaborations".

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-About Collaborations- Acerca de las colaboraciones-

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Partner Plan Act Conference | Request for Proposals

Equity from the Start: Overcoming Obstacles, Leveraging Opportunities 
Virtual Summit, May 16-18, 2023

Is your community making efforts towards creating a more equitable Early Childhood Education and Care system? We want to hear from you! Please consider submitting a conference breakout session proposal. 
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Partner Together

Communities can have a greater impact by working together and incorporating diverse perspectives to create thriving partnerships.

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Plan Together

When communities plan together, they are better able to address complex community problems through systems-level change.

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Act Together

Communities engage in a continuous learning process to improve outcomes for children and families while advocating for state-wide systems change.

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Learn Together

Build the capacity of your local early childhood collaboration to strengthen community systems.

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Webinars

2021 Virtual Summit presentations

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Parent Engagement Resources

A Parent Engagement Handbook: Engaging Parents in Early Childhood Collaboration
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Request Consultation

On-Demand Consultation.

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WeConnect Online Community Sign Up

Illinois Action for Children is thrilled to announce our new online collaboration platform, WeConnect! Get ready to take your community systems development work to a whole new level. It’s free to join and once you are approved and set up, you’ll have 24/7 access to:

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Collaboration Institute


On-Demand Learning

On-Demand Learning offers the opportunity for collaboration leaders, early childhood advocates, and community members to take learning into their own hands. Thanks to generous funding from Illinois State Board of Education, and in partnership with the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood.

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Part of Illinois Action for Children

Since our founding in 1969, Illinois Action for Children has worked to create systems of early care and education that help strengthen families and communities.

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