ESTABLISHING PROFESSIONAL CONTACTS AND EXPANDING RESOURCES

Steps Taken To Establish Professional Contacts:

1. Reviewed Early Childhood professional contacts located on Global Alliance for the Education of Young Children.
2. Selected four regions of the world to explore professional early childhood contacts: Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
3. Selected six professional contacts:

a.       Africa (Ghana): Rev Charles Arto-Nunoo; Email (2kdotcom@ghana.com)

b.      Asia (Phillippines): OMEP Phillippines National Committee Center for Early Childhood Care & Development; Email (child_ceccd@yahoo.com)

c.       Europe (Spain): OMEP Comite Nacional Espanol World Association of Early Childhood Educators; Email (jsm@waece.org)

d.      North America ( Cuba): OMEP Comite Nacional Cubano; Email (celep_cuba@yahoo.com)

e.       North America (Haiti): Step by Step Program/ Tipa Tipa; Email (tipatipa@hainet.net)

4. Sent email to six chosen professional contacts

*****Sample Email*****

Good Morning!

My name is Tinisha Weathers and I am a graduate student at Walden University, pursuing my Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Studies with a specialization in Public Policy and Advocacy. I am currently taking a course titled Issues and Trends. Within this course I am required to establish contacts with early childhood professionals around the world with whom I can communicate with on a weekly basis regarding their work, the state of the early childhood field within their country, their concerns, hopes, and dreams for the future of the early childhood field. I have retrieved your information from the Global Alliance for The Education of Young Children website and would like to establish you as a contact to discuss various aspects of the early childhood field within your country. If you are interested in establishing a mutual contact please feel free to respond to this email with your expression of interest.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration and have a wonderful day!!!

After emailing my six selected professional contacts, I received four error messages advising me that my email was not delivered to the designated email address, one messages advising me that my email is still in the delivery process, and no error message or response from the remaining contact. Should I not receive a response from the two remaining contacts and or receive an error message, I will resort to the World Forum as an alternative.

The organization that I chose to explore is Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families: http://www.zerotothree.org/

I chose this organization due to my recent research experience of this website in my Early Childhood Development course. I found this website to be educational and informational regarding the growth and development of children and I am very interested in exploring the organization in greater depth. I subscribed to the organization’s newsletter to receive monthly updates.