That’s A Wrap!
Thanks to the amazing Shared Services Community for an outstanding conference … Let’s keep driving CHANGE!
The Plenaries + Keynote
OPENING KEYNOTE
CHANGE NOW:
Setting the Stage
Louise Stoney, Opportunities Exchange;
Gary Romano, Civitas Strategies
PLENARY
CHANGE Educator Compensation: We Can
Get There From Here
Sharon Easterling, Opportunities Exchange
CLOSING KEYNOTE
CHANGE NOW:
Bringing it Home
Megan Irwin, Opportunities Exchange, Facilitator
Solving ECE Workforce Crisis:
Strategies for Centers
Doing the Math:
A Roadmap for Change in ECE Educator Compensation
Mary Graham, Children’s Village; Deb Green, Parent Infant Center
Meeting the Workforce Crisis through HR Supports
Kate Byrne, Cyndee Crawford, Early Learning Shared Services Alliance; Amanda Burns, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network
Substitute Pools: Supporting Today’s Workforce and
a Staffing Pipeline for the Future
Johanna Borden, OppEx; Jennifer Myers, Monroe Co. Smart Start;
Chanel Clark, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network
Health Care Benefits for All:
New Resources for the Child Care Sector
Katie Harbison, Chambliss Center for Children; Paula Drew, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network
HR Recruitment, Retention and Management: Tools for the Trade
Cellissa Hoyt, ECE Shared Resources; Monique Reynolds, Quality Care for Children; Kim Cullen, Children’s Cabinet, Nevada
Leveraging the Power of
Technology and Automation
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: How Iowa is Transforming their ECE Sector with Technology
Julie Allison, Tami Foley, Amanda Winslow, Iowa Dept. of Health and Human Services
Early Learning Ventures: Scaling Shared Services Statewide
Judy Williams, Tim Garcia, Early Learning Ventures;
Niki Gill Adams, CO Community Based Child Care Licensing
Deepening Provider Engagement with Automation Tools
Neomi Fletcher, Children at Risk; Karla Houghtalin, Southwest Human Development; Rebekah Hungate, Jacqueline Penning, Mid-Sioux Opportunity Inc.
The Supply + Demand Data Deficit:
The Why and How of Real Time Data
Louise Stoney, OppEx; Tami Foley, Iowa Dept. of Health and Human Services; Laura Weeldreyer, Maryland Family Network; Lucinda Burns, Early Childhood Options
State Level Expansion Initiatives: Lessons from the Field*
Gary Romano, Kelly Turner, Civitas Strategies; Catherine
Arwood, Chelsea Reddic, Texas Workforce Commission;
Bevin Parker-Cerkez, LISC; Cynthia Melde, LISC Phoenix
Ensuring Equitable,
Inclusive Access for All
Lenders with a Mission: Accessing Capital through
non-traditional Funding Institutions
Bevin-Parker-Cerkez, Nicole Barcliff, LISC;
Cynthia Melde, LISC Phoenix
NEXT Memphis: Supporting Pedagogical
and Business Leadership
Alicia Norman, NEXT Memphis Director
Supporting Emerging Leaders of Color in the Sector*
Khaatim Sherrer El, Clinton Hill Community Action;
Robyn Tedder, Candor Consulting; Yazmin Inglesias, All Our Kin; DeNiqua Mattias, Clinton Hill Community & Early Childhood Center, Kelly Turner, Civitas Strategies
Technology Access for All: Reaching Marginalized Communities
Johanna Borden, OppEx; Jocelynn Bryant Rojas, AVANCE;
Daniel Noyes, Tech Goes Home; Cassie Bair, Mobile Citizens
Language and Digital Equity for Child Care Entrepreneurs
Jennifer Brooks, Crystal Quiñonez, Nurture
The Sessions
Solving ECE Workforce Crisis: Strategies for Home-Based Providers
Taxes, Incorporation, and other Compensation Strategies for Home-Based Providers and Small Centers
Gary Romano, Civitas Strategies; Kelly Matthews, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network; Melinda Weber, United Way of Massachusetts Bay
Housing Stability for FCC Providers: Business is Personal*
Bevin Parker-Cerkez, LISC; Natalie Renew, Home Grown;
Jerletha McDonald, ADFW Childcare Training & Advocacy
Strategies for Improving Earnings for Home-Based Providers*
Natalie Renew, Home Grown; Rebecca Karasik, Pie for Providers; Jerletha McDonald, ADFW Childcare Training & Advocacy
Expanding Capacity and Improving Quality in Family Child Care Programs Through Licensure Support
Brandee Lengel, Michelle Swanson, Gina Ewing, Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative; Elizabeth Arnold, Home-Based provider
Strong Business Practices = Cost Savings
Shannon Stagner, Civitas Strategies
Shared Services: Scaling New
Business Models in ECE
Scaling Success: Shared Services on the Move in Florida
Kate Byrne, Raquel Perez, Early Learning Shared Services Alliance
Micro-centers: A Child Care Growth Strategy
for the New Economy
Louise Stoney, OppEx; Matt Friesen, Oregon Legislature;
Katie Harbison, Chambliss Center for Children
Businesses + Child Care: Partners for Change*
Jill Fowler Gunderman, Civitas Strategies;
Catherine Arwood, Chelsea Reddic, Texas Workforce Commission; Siran Cao, Mirza; Steph Itelman, EPIC
Deep and Wide: How to Take Individualized, Responsive Business Coaching to Scale without Losing Impact*
Gary Romano, Kelly Turner, Jennifer Vail, Shannon Stagner, Civitas Strategies
Building Sustainable Shared Services:
Toledo Early Learning Coalition
Marcus Goodwin, Toledo Early Learning Coalition
Measuring Impact
and Reforming Policy
Anytime is the Right Time:
Creating an Evaluation Pathway focused on CHANGE
Alison LaRocca, Luminary Evaluation; Monique Reynolds, Quality Care for Children; Janine Wipperfurth, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network, Johanna Borden, OppEx
Benchmarks and Dashboards: Designing a Data Collection System that Measures what’s Meaningful
Amy Friedlander, Johanna Borden, OppEx;
Karla Houghtalin, Southwest Human Development;
Melissa Juhl, Mid-Sioux Opportunity, Inc.
Shared Service Alliances as CHANGE AGENTS
Kelly Matthews, Paula Drew, Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network; Judy Williams, Early Learning Ventures
Girl, I Want to Get You More Money:
Business Coaching that Changes the Bottom Line
Monique Reynolds, Quality Care for Children
Cost Modeling as a Tool to Improve Child Care Policy
Theresa Hawley, Center for Early Learning Funding Equity
*no presentation materials available
Welcome to the 2023 National Shared Services Technical Conference
Questions Considered.
Where do I begin to build a Shared Service Alliance? How can I find the right ECE programs to participate? Who will provide funding for this work? The Shared Services journey begins with asking the right questions—the conference is a place to hear how others have found answers.
Ideas Discussed.
It all begins with an idea...maybe we could find a way to improve wages … maybe we could do a better job connecting parents with ECE programs … maybe we could spend more time on education and less time on paperwork … the conference is fertile ground to plant the seeds of your idea.
Community Nurtured.
Let’s face it, changing the ECE sector is not for the faint of heart. You need time to be with kindred spirits who see not just “what is wrong and ask why”, but see “what could be and ask why not”? Fellow world changers, there is a seat at this table for you.
