"None of us shows up as a blank slate to anything." -Priya Parker Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) The fifth cohort of the Partner Plan Act Collaboration Institute launched on July 14, 2022. We are pleased to announce this year’s participating communities: Early...
"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 fifth cohort of the Partner Plan Act Collaboration Institute launches in July 2022. Communities...
"The systems make us hard. Rest keeps us tender. There is power in our collective rest and care." -The Nap Ministry Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) The fifth cohort of the Partner Plan Act Collaboration Institute launches in July 2022. Communities can apply as teams to receive...
“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...