“Self-care is systems-care.”
– Dr. Alexandra Escobar
CS3 Updates
Save the Date! 2025 Partner Plan Act Conference – May 6-8
The CS3 team is excited to announce that the 2025 Partner Plan Act Conference will be held virtually from May 6th-8th, 2025! The theme will be Equity from the Start: Interdependent Self and Community Care. Join us for engaging discussions, insightful sessions, and networking opportunities.
Be sure to check the PPA Website for the latest information about registration and stay tuned for exciting conference updates!
2025 PPA Conference – Request for Workshop Proposals
CS3 invites Request for Proposals (RPFs) for workshop presenters for the annual Partner Plan Act (PPA) conference. This year’s application focuses on a high-level overview of the workshop.
The PPA conference brings together early childhood leaders, school districts, program staff, and others to learn, network, and deepen their community systems knowledge and skills. Workshop topics from previous years include effective strategies for supporting priority populations, essential mindsets and practices for leading community systems development, coordinated intake systems, family engagement, and much more. A core theme and value of PPA conferences is equity, which is embedded throughout the conference design and experience.
A total of six proposals will be selected (two entry-level, two intermediate-level, and two advanced-level) and each presentation being 90 minutes long (75 minutes for presentation with 15 minutes for breaks). Selected presentations will receive a $150 honorarium.
Be sure to read all instructions in the RFP including detailed information on the timeline, process, requirements, etc.
Submit proposals to partnerplanact@actforchildren.org with the subject line “Workshop Proposal – [Workshop Title] - 2025 PPA Conference” by December 16, 2024. For additional information or questions, please contact Deb Hwang at deborah.hwang@actforchildren.org.
Submissions after the deadline will not be considered. Decisions will be announced in mid-January 2025 and presenters will begin preparing for the conference right away.
Upcoming Trainings
Register Now! Family Engagement Framework Training
Join us as we review the revised CS3 Family Engagement Framework for early childhood collaborations and how to use it! Participants will receive information and tools to help them identify their collaboration’s starting point on the framework. The training will also introduce a new tool to help collaborations choose which family engagement role(s) to carry out based on their community needs and resources. This training will be facilitated by Janet Vargas, Ruby Flores, and Dra. Alexandra Escobar:
Participants will receive information and tools needed to:
- Become familiar with the revised CS3 Family Engagement Framework.
- Assess a collaboration’s family engagement work and decide where they can start using the framework.
- Choose which family engagement role(s) to implement.
- Access CS3 Family Engagement Supports.
This training is eligible for Gateways credits and certificates issued in collaboration with The Center: Early Childhood Professional Learning.
Date: November 12, 2024
Time: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Resources
Access Printing Support
The CS3 team is continuing to offer support in partnership with American Color Labs for printing services. If your local early childhood collaboration has marketing materials that you’d like to print, please complete this Request for Support form.
Printing support can include flyers, annual reports, marketing collateral, stickers, banners, posters, and more. Please reach out to the CS3 team if you have questions about this support.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a service provided specifically to early childhood education and care (ECEC) collaborations. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate requests for individual programs. Request Support
Training Opportunities in Collaboration with The Center: Early Childhood Professional Learning
11/4/2024 – Burning Up Instead of Burning Out!
- Participants will learn four self-care strategies and two secrets to fuel the passion needed to perform at a high level.
11/21/2024 – Guiding Principles for Using Technology with Young Children
- This webinar will cover some guiding principles for using technology, concerns and issues related to using technology with young children, things to consider when evaluating commercially available technology and ways to use technology to support young children’s learning.
Be sure to visit The Center’s Training Calendar for more opportunities.