Welcome

Conference Goals:

• Challenge thinking about diversity and disability;
• Increase family and provider effectiveness through new skills, strategies and ideas for providing high quality services;
• Enhance understanding of the unique strengths and needs of each family;
• Foster partnerships across families, disciplines, agencies and funders to provide coordinated services in local communities;
• Promote networking and coalition building around early childhood issues;
• Enhance the lives of families and their children through the use of information and technology; and
• Promote the mutual understanding of the contributions families and providers bring to the lives of young children.