“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.” -Desmond Tutu Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) The CS3 team continues to develop the 2022 Collaboration Directory, featuring the work of community...
“Power can be defined as the ability to make a particular perspective seem universal.” - Alok Vaid-Menon Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) Our virtual conference, Equity from the Start: Taking Action, Shifting Power is four months away! W e are excited to announce the...
“Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings.” - Sonya Renee Taylor Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) Every two years, the CS3 team releases an updated Collaboration Directory . The Collaboration Directory serves as...
"Hope is the belief that our tomorrows can be better than our todays. Hope is not magic; hope is work." - Deray McKesson Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) The annual Partner Plan Act conference will take place virtually June 7- 8, 2022. This year’s conference theme is Equity...
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.” - James Baldwin Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) The annual Partner Plan Act conference will take place virtually June 7- 8, 2022. This year’s...
"Without community, there is no liberation." -Audre Lorde Welcome, Cicely Fleming! Illinois Action for Children welcomes Cicely Fleming as the new State Director for Regional and Community Systems. In the newly created role based out of Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and...
"Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups." -Patricia...
"The best gatherings learn to cultivate good controversy by creating the conditions for it because human connection is just as threatened by unhealthy peace as by unhealthy conflict." - Priya Parker Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) On July 14, 2021, CS3 hosted an...
"When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist." -George Takei Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) Our annual conference Equity from the Start: Reimagining the Early Childhood System took place June 8-10, 2021. We were...
“The more you benefit from supremacy, the more responsible you have to be to dismantle it.” - Brittany Packnett Cunningham Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) The fourth cohort of the Partner Plan Act Collaboration Institute launches in July 2021. Communities can...