State & Local Collaboration

The Collaborative Planning Project (CPP) The CPP was a three-year (1998-2001) federal outreach project, based at The Center for Collaborative Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado. The project provided training and technical assistance to local interagency teams to create a coordinated system of early care and education services to young children, birth through five and their families; improve relationships and communication among agencies; and maximize and blend resources. Project materials below are available in the full text:

• "IDEA and Early Childhood Inclusion" (PDF: 2,956kb) , Barbara Smith & Mary Jane Rapport, September 1999
• "Facilitating Change in Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems" (PDF: 3,801kb) , Peggy Hayden, September 1999
• "Early Childhood Inclusion Policy and Systems: What Do We Know?" (PDF: 3,514kb) , Barbara Smith & Mary Jane Rapport, November 1999
• "Tasks, Tips and Tools for Promoting Collaborative Community Teams" (PDF: 163kb) , Peggy Hayden, Linda Frederick, Barbara Smith, & Alison Broudy, January 2001

Center for Children & Families (CC&F) at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), Newton, MA, works to strengthen programs that serve young children and their families by combining research and practice, promoting professional development and systemic change, forging community links, and informing policies that affect the lives of children. The Partnership Impact Research Project at EDC, CC&F, has published Early Care and Education Partnerships: State Actions and Local Lessons, 2003, a report on the nature of early care and education partnerships and their impact on quality and access to services.

Quality in Linking Together Early Education Partnerships (QUILT) is a national training and technical assistance project funded by the federal Head Start and Child Care Bureaus to support partnerships and collaboration among child care, Head Start, pre-kindergarten, and other early education programs. QUILT was funded in September 1998 and has continued since August 2003 with support from the federal Child Care Bureau. They have a list of articles and publications to assist in partnership building, community collaborations, and more on their Web site.