Why Early Childhood Care and Education is Essential to Economic Development
Why Early Childhood Care and Education is Essential to Economic Development: Supporting 14 licensed family child care home in the San Luis Valley As an industry, early childhood care and education has historically been underfunded and underappreciated. In times of...
How You Can Contact a Member of Congress
Anytime on Tuesday, February 25, pick up the phone to call your elected officials and share some of the same messages from home that your fellow educators and advocates are sharing in person. Here’s what you can say: -As a constituent and an advocate for child care...
White House Summit on Child Care and Paid Leave
White House Summit on Child Care and Paid Leave: Supporting America's Working Families [/fusion_title][fusion_text columns="" column_min_width="" column_spacing="" rule_style="default" rule_size="" rule_color=""...
Parents as Teachers Family Night – December 2019
Parents as Teachers Family Night - December 2019 [/fusion_title][fusion_text columns="" column_min_width="" column_spacing="" rule_style="default" rule_size="" rule_color="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id=""...
Senate Bill 19-063
Senate Bill 19-063: Concerning a Strategic Action Plan to Address Infant and Family Child Care Home Shortages in Colorado Background Licensed infant care has been decreasing since 2010. Additionally, family child care homes, sometimes the only accessible care option...
StoryWalk®
Alamosa Public Library and the Early Childhood Council of the SLV would like to invite all parents, teachers, and caregivers to come and check out the new story at the StoryWalk® along with their children. The Early Childhood Council took on the project for the new...
ECCSLV 2017 Annual Report
Below is a link to the Early Childhood Council's 2017 Annual Report. Annual Report 2017
ECCSLV Newsletter May 17, 2019
Working in Early Childhood Education Welcome from the Executive Director Dear Community Supporter: On Saturday, May 18, Head Start will turn 54 years old! This year is particularly special because it is also the 25th birthday of Early Head Start-which was authorized...
ECCSLV Newsletter April 25, 2019
Working in Early Childhood Education Welcome from the Executive Director Dear Community Supporter: This past week we shared an article (included below) titled, "Is Online Early-Childhood Education the Next Big Thing?" As early childhood advocates, for years we have...
We Have Moved!
The location of our offices has changed! We will be operating out of 401 Santa Fe Ave. in Alamosa. Our new office buildings are just east of the Rodeway Inn (formerly the Holiday Inn). We are excited for this new transition and will be having a ribbon cutting...