About the Consortium
The ECTA Consortium includes national projects that provide technical assistance in support of states' efforts in building coordinated early learning and
development systems. All TA projects with this focus are welcome to participate. Please contact us to let
us know of your interest.
Our purposes are to:
- coordinate early childhood technical assistance efforts that support states in building and sustaining their systems for early learning and development
- share knowledge and resources for improving the delivery and impact of TA
- identify strategies for working collaboratively
- enhance each other's technical assistance efforts and explore options to leverage resources to benefit our respective constituencies
The Consortium holds regular calls the second Tuesday of every other month at 3:30 Eastern. Consortium projects participate in ad hoc workgroups to share resources and learn from each other in order to adjust their TA processes to be more efficient and effective. A Steering Committee meets via phone in the alternating months to discuss long-term direction, plan call and meeting agendas, and update the shared Website and listserv membership. Projects make every effort to meet together in person at least once a year in Washington, DC; meetings are usually held in conjunction with other scheduled meetings.
Who We Are, What We Do, Where We Work
- Participating TA Projects (MS-Word, updated 4-01-11), includes a list of projects, their funders, website, logo, Consortium representative, project description and the states they are working in.
- Existing Federally Funded Technical Assistance Resources for Early Learning Advisory Councils and State Advisory Councils (PDF, 04-11-11) presents a matrix of federally-funded TA projects with potential TA areas that correspond to the responsibilities of state early childhood councils. Also includes target audience and capacity for services.
- Map of Projects Active in each State is drawn from the EC TA Projects Database. (Consortium participants must log-in to update their project's information.)
- Federal Agencies' EC TA Projects (MS-Word, updated 10-29-10), depicts the organizational structure of Federal agencies and selected national TA projects they fund, and indicates representation on the EC TA Consortium.
- TA Connections: Federal, State and Community shows connections between national TA agencies that support comprehensive EC systems and their primary state/community TA clients across federal funding streams.
- Acronym List for Federal EC Programs lists acronyms and full names of the organizations/agencies referenced in the preceding documents along with the funder's logo.
Calls and Meetings
Most recent events:
Workgroups
Current workgroups and resources:
- Coordinated TA Facilitators: Linda Brekken and Pam Winton
- Evaluation Facilitators: Lynne Kahn and Carol Trivette
- Consortium participants must log-in to access discussion areas.
Resources developed or shared from past workgroups include: