<div dir="ltr">Happy New Year!<div><br></div><div>I need your help. To get your attention, this could hugely impact funding for early childhood services - specifically early childhood block grant, preschool for all, early childhood block grant prevention initiative, and early childhood special education. I need you to forward names (recruit) people who are pro-public schools, pro-early childhood. We need people who do not want this money to go through one centralized state agency, such as DHS (for example), but to keep it flowing through ISBE and the two other agencies ( I know, I can't believe I am saying this, but in this case, ISBE is way better than DHS). If DHS gets it, there is not doubt funding will be impacted. I know it says one state agency, but in the regional council meetings they are saying DHS. </div><div><br></div><div>Now that I have your attention, that is the worst case scenario. I really would like to find school board members and district superintendents and principals who have a passion for early childhood and understand the importance of funding these programs through ISBE. Not trying to be an alarmist but when money is involved, we better do our due diligence to protect. I think we need to pay attention to these types of actions and put forward names of our people so we have a voice on the council. Better to be proactive.</div><div><br></div><div>While it seems great to have a centralized system, I have concerns with how resulting funding will be impacted. Perhaps one of you have an idea of where IARSS is on this issue, if so please share. My local expert that deals with this has expressed these concerns.</div><div><br></div><div>See the emails below and I hope you can forward some names to Denise Henry at <a href="mailto:dhenry@sccroe50.org" target="_blank">dhenry@sccroe50.org</a>. This is time sensitive. I need a minimum of two names from each ROE, but will take more. Details are below. </div><div><br></div><div>Need responses by January 12 at the latest.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks.</div><div>Mark <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Denise Henry</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:dhenry@sccroe50.org" target="_blank">dhenry@sccroe50.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 8:00 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Birth to Five, IL<br>To: Mark Eichenlaub <<a href="mailto:meichenlaub@sccroe50.org" target="_blank">meichenlaub@sccroe50.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">I will be completing this form with names of folks I think should represent Area 5. I know people who work in early childhood, but I don't know local elected officials, school board members, superintendents, etc who have an interest in early childhood education and who might represent us well. I need stakeholder names (required), email addresses (required), phone number, entity/business they are part of, position/title, and county they represent by January 12th. I've cut and pasted the information about the type of stakeholder they are requesting below. I've also forwarded the email I received that has the information about the initiative, including funding recommendations. Here's the direct link to the funding recommendations: <a href="https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/OECD/Documents/Primer%20for%20Early%20Childhood%20Funding%20Commission%20Report%202021.pdf" target="_blank"> https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/OECD/Documents/Primer%20for%20Early%20Childhood%20Funding%20Commission%20Report%202021.pdf</a><div><br></div><div>Do you have some people you can recommend before January 12? Please send them to me, and I will add them to the list. Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 6px;padding:0px;font-size:28px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:"GT Eesti Display",-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;font-feature-settings:"calt" 0;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:36px">ECEC Stakeholders</h1><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:18px;line-height:24px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">As part of the Regional/Community Systems work and our new Birth to Five Illinois team, we will be holding kick-off meetings to introduce the Birth to Five Action Council structure. Virtual kick-off meetings will be held in each early childhood region the first week of February 2022.
In preparation for those meetings, we are collecting contact information for stakeholders who should be invited to learn more about the regional and community systems infrastructure. We would like to invite a variety of stakeholders to this orientation meeting. The names submitted in this form will be used to create a list of invitees and they will be informed that you recommended them.
** This form is not an RSVP for the meeting **
Please submit stakeholders that you think should be invited to the launch meeting for your community.
You are more than welcome to submit multiple names; please fill out this form once per person.
We are looking for people from every level of work and community. Ensuring that all children and families have access to the services they need will require a wide range of stakeholders working together in every community across the state to identify & understand the barriers families face in navigating our early childhood services. Utilizing family and provider voice, the council will work to inform policy and funding recommendations that will create equitable high-quality services for all.
Perspectives from community members that represent a diverse array of professional and lived experiences will be sought in the councils, key roles include:
- Parent/Family Reps
- Community Members from an underrepresented population
- Local Collaboration
- Regional Office of Education
- Local School District (Board Member/Superintendent Office)
- Local Elected Official
- County Elected Official
- Head Start Center
- Family Childcare
- Early Childhood Educator
- Healthcare
- Higher Education
- CCR&R / Coordinated Entry
- Business Owner / Chamber of Commerce
Please fill out as much information as possible so we can assign our proper outreach team member.</p><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Area 5 Coordinator</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:area5coordinator@inccrra.org" target="_blank">area5coordinator@inccrra.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 1:49 PM<br>Subject: Birth to Five, IL<br>To: Denise Henry <<a href="mailto:dhenry@sccroe50.org" target="_blank">dhenry@sccroe50.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Denise Henry</b><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Project Leader</b><font color="#134f5c" size="2" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br>STAR NET Region IV </b></font></div><div><font color="#134f5c" size="2" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><a href="mailto:dhenry@sccroe50.org" target="_blank">dhenry@sccroe50.org</a></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Cell: 618-833-5371</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.starnet.org/" target="_blank">www.starnet.org</a></b></div><div><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram: @IllinoisSTARNET #starnetregioniv</b></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1xGGjTFo35rSvB8N-PQfg-GCmkwafDAUT&revid=0B5GZnX-WHiq_MytROW96M3VNR3VCR21MVENReUVSOHVaUVkwPQ" width="96" height="78"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr. Mark Eichenlaub</span><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Regional Superintendent<br>
St. Clair County Regional Office of Education #50<br>
1000 South Illinois Street<br>
Belleville, IL 62220<br>
618-825-3935 <br>
<a href="mailto:meichenlaub@sccroe50.org" target="_blank">meichenlaub@sccroe50.org</a><br>
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