“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...
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) Register now for the Partner Plan Act...
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” / Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) Save the date for the Partner Plan Act Virtual Summit - June 8...
“Strategies and programs can help people manage the effects of these injustices, but they don’t overcome or cure them. Policies, conversely, actually shift the way communities and their members react and relate to one another, empowering people to improve their own well-being in a systematic way...
"Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists." —Michelle Alexander Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) We hope...