Hartford Courant: Support Early Childhood (LTE)

  • Alliance members are speaking up for two bold early childhood proposals - in Connecticut, the Office of Early Childhood and nationally, the president's early childhood proposals. This letter, submitted by Gail Nolan, ran May 23 in the Hartford Courant.

Stamford Advocate: Early Childhood Needs Coordination (LTE)

  • Alliance members are speaking up for two bold early childhood proposals - in Connecticut, the Office of Early Childhood and nationally, the president's early childhood proposals. This letter, submitted by Barbara Garvin-Kester, ran in the Stamford Advocate on May 23.

New Haven Register: App by New Haven's Gesell Institute turns child’s play into lesson

Letter: Early Childhood Needs Coordination

  • Alliance members are speaking up for two bold ideas regarding early childhood - one is local, the Office of Early Childhood, and the second is national, the president's early childhood proposal.

Home Visiting Programs are Preschool in Earliest Form

New York Times: Poverty as a Childhood Disease

  • Dr Perri Klass says poverty should be looked at as a disease - thwarting growth and development, robbing children of the healthy, happy futures they might otherwise expect.

CT Early Care & Education Progress Report: 2012

  • This fourth annual early care progress report on Connecticut’s early care and education system finds that funding for early childhood has remained stagnant in recent years. However, there are signs of progress, including increased investment in the current fiscal year and improvements in some measures of quality.

Feds Propose Overhaul for Child Care Centers

  • The federal government is proposing an overhaul for child care centers across the country, when it comes to beefing up safety standards.

Meriden Record-Journal: Federal Official Tours Meriden

  • Deborah Delisle, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the US Department of Education, toured several Meriden schools on May 10. Among the tour highlights, Delisle, a Connecticut native, saw the new sensory room for children with autism and the brand-new full-day kindergarten wing, both at Hanover School. The Alliance helped ensure media coverage of the event.

Patch Blog (May): If Your Child Needed Mental Health Services, Would You Know Where to Turn?

  • During this Mental Health Awareness Month (with Children's Mental Health Awareness Day on May 9), Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut (CHDI) offers resources to parents and caregivers seeking mental health guidance for children. This blog was posted on 29 Connecticut Patch sites, either as a blog or an announcement/board. It ran on sites including Hamden, Norwalk, Farmington, West Hartford, Avon, Simsbury, Windsor, Bethel, Danbury, Brookfield, Ellington-Somers, Tolland, Monroe, Newtown, Weston-Redding-Easton, Branford and Middletown.