Register here to create your Early Childhood Connector (ECC) account! Members use ECC to find resources, collaborate and connect with peers working to strengthen early childhood programs, supports and systems at the local, state, or national level.
Help us spread the word about the Early Childhood Connector through email and social media! Below we’ve provided sample email language and social content and graphics. Please adapt as appropriate for your audiences.
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Email TemplateDear colleague,
As we all work quickly to adjust to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are finding ourselves leaning on our peers and our collective expertise to find innovative solutions and ideas to continue to meet the needs of our children, families and communities across the country.
There is an urgent need to efficiently connect and share, in real-time, the great work the early childhood community is doing. That is why I invite you to join our partners and peers on a new online platform, the Early Childhood Connector, so that we can more effectively work together to support our children and families during this crisis.
What is the Early Childhood Connector? Over the course of the last year, the Ounce has worked with a group of early childhood organizations, community leaders and experts to design a shared online community for our field.
While we continue to co-design a broader knowledge-sharing community and platform together – we have decided to accelerate access and launch the site early to facilitate a more cohesive and collaborative response to the crisis caused by COVID-19. Once you join, you can connect with others to access and share the ideas, resources and best practices being developed as a response to the pandemic. We hope this can be a space to consider the ways in which we can not only rebuild the early childhood systems after this crisis but built it back better and more resilient than ever.
To make the Connector a success, we need your help. I encourage you to join and share with your own networks so we can grow this platform into a vibrant community.
Together we can help connect, guide and support the early childhood field response to the COVID-19 crisis.
QUESTIONS? If you have questions, feedback or ideas, contact ecconnector@ounceofprevention.org
Share with your networks using popular social media outlets like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. See some of our sample posts below for your use! To increase visibility, we encourage tagging relevant peer organizations and/or individuals (i.e. @theOunce) and utilizing hashtags. Please use #ecconnector so we can track the reach of these posts with a larger network!
Linkedin Post 1:
Work in #earlychildhood? Join the Early Childhood Connector (ECC).
The ECC is an online community for the EC field to connect, share ideas, curate best practices and elevate the work that’s happening across the country. While this platform will ultimately become a broader knowledge-sharing community for the early childhood field – the Connector has launched early to facilitate a more collaborative response to the #COVID19 crisis.
Please join so we can all work more efficiently to respond to the urgent needs facing our families and children! bit.ly/34hlqzo #earlychildhood #onlinecommunity #collaboration #covid19 #ecconnector
LinkedIn Post 2:
Early Childhood colleagues and friends - as we work quickly to support children, families and communities across the country in responding to the #COVID19 pandemic, I invite you to join the Early Childhood Connector (ECC). The ECC is an online community for the EC field to connect, share ideas, curate best practices and elevate the work that’s happening across the country. Join now. bit.ly/34hlqzo #earlychildhood #onlinecommunity #collaboration #covid19 #ecconnector
LinkedIn Post 3:
Interested in discussing the opportunities and challenges related to telehealth and the early childhood and home visiting fields in response to the #COVID19 pandemic? Join the Early Childhood Connector (ECC). The ECC is an online community for the #earlychildhood field to connect, share, curate best practices and elevate the work that’s happening across the country. Join now. bit.ly/34hlqzo #earlychildhood #onlinecommunity #collaboration #telehealth #covid19 #ecconnector
LinkedIn Post 4:
How is your state handling emergency child care or child care for first responders? Join the Early Childhood Connector (ECC) to discuss, ask and answer questions like these with early childhood professionals across the country. bit.ly/34hlqzo #earlychildhood #onlinecommunity #collaboration #covid19 #ecconnector
Facebook Option 1:
Work in early childhood? Join the Early Childhood Connector (ECC).
The #ecconnector is an online community for the EC field to connect, share ideas, curate best practices and elevate the work that’s happening across the country. While this platform will ultimately become a broader knowledge-sharing community for the early childhood field – the Connector has launched early to facilitate a more collaborative response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Please join so we can all work more efficiently to respond to the urgent needs facing our families and children! bit.ly/34hlqzo
Facebook Option 2:
Early Childhood colleagues and friends - as we work quickly to support children, families and communities across the country in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, I invite you to join the Early Childhood Connector (ECC). The #ecconnector is an online community for the EC field to connect, share ideas, curate best practices and elevate the work that’s happening across the country. Join now. bit.ly/34hlqzo
Facebook Option 3:
Interested in discussing the opportunities and challenges related to telehealth and the early childhood and home visiting fields in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Join the Early Childhood Connector (ECC). The #ecconnector is an online community for the early childhood field to connect, share, curate best practices and elevate the work that’s happening across the country. Join now. bit.ly/34hlqzo
Facebook Option 4:
How is your state handling emergency child care or child care for first responders? Join the Early Childhood Connector (ECC) to discuss, ask and answer questions like these with early childhood professionals across the country. #ecconnector bit.ly/34hlqzo
Twitter Option 1:
Work in #earlychildhood? Join the Early Childhood Connector – an online community for the EC field to connect, share ideas, curate best practices and elevate work happening across the country. #ecconnector bit.ly/34hlqzo
Twitter Option 2:
#Earlychildhood colleagues - as we support children, families & communities impacted by #COVID19, please join the Early Childhood Connector. #ecconnector is an online community to connect, share, curate, and elevate work happening across the country. Bit.ly/34hlqzo
Twitter Option 3:
Want to discuss #telehealth and #earlychildhood / #homevisiting in response to #COVID19? Join the #ecconnector an online community for the early childhood field to connect, share, curate best practices and elevate work happening across the country. bit.ly/34hlqzo
Twitter Option 4:
How is your state handling emergency child care or child care for first responders? Join the #ecconnector to discuss, ask and answer questions like these with #earlychildhood professionals across the country. bit.ly/34hlqzo
