Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Part 1: Establishing Professional Contacts

As of Wed 6/29 I emailed three early childhood professionals living in Ireland, Germany  the Philippines. I hope to hear from them soon!!

OMEP Irish National Committee
Nippa - the Early Childhood Organization
Siobhan Fitzpatrick

German National Committee for Early Childhood Education
Mrs. Eva-Hammes-Di Bernardo

OMEP Philippines National Committee
Center for Early Childhood Care & Development
Blesilda Rios

Part 2: Expanding Resources

I reviewed several different resources:

National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencieshttp://www.naccrra.org/  (Newsletter: http://capwiz.com/naccrra/mlm/signup/ )

 Pre[K]Now: A Campaign of the Pew Center on the States
http://www.preknow.org/ (Newsletter: http://www.preknow.org/signupform.cfm )

Society for Research in Child Developmenthttp://www.srcd.org/ 
(Newsletter: http://www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=238&Itemid=543 )

I found each to be insightful and interesting in their own way but I picked the website http://www.ccw.org/ to be my main reference for more Early Childhood resources. The web site offers you information on improving the overall quality for early childhood, professionals, children, programs, services, etc. Its main focus is the EC professional workforce. The site gives you all kinds of information on teaching, raising, educating and helping children grow and develop appropriately. There is different research and resources available such as the benefits of high-quality childcare, what these programs include, and individual States' Child Care licensure regulations. One of the other resources we had to pick from Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, I already subscribe to.