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Connecticut Voices for Children has released fact sheets, reports and primers on a variety of topics related to early care and education.

Provides a guide to begin, strengthen and sustain a collaborative group for the building and sustaining of positive change. Offers tools to help groups set clear goals, build and maintain coalitions and evaluate collaborative efforts.

Ready, Set, Grow ... CT Kids! is a statewide, multi-year communications and mobilizing campaign with the goal of ensuring that all children born in Connecticut beginning in 2004 will enter kindergarten healthy, eager to learn, and ready for school success.
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Adapted from How to Build a Community Collaboration, which can be found on the Community Collaboration website, this document lists collaboration principles and describes what those principles look like in practice. Principles covered include developing mission and vision statements, setting goals and objectives, leadership, coordination and organization, building relationships, communication and many others.