Montana Early Childhood Network
What becomes possible when Montana’s early childhood community comes together?
Join us October 5 & 6 for the Montana Early Childhood Network’s inaugural in-person convening: Many Partners, One System.
Over two days you will connect with people who share your commitment to Montana’s young children and families, experience the Science of the Positive training by the Montana Institute, learn from one another and imagine a stronger, more connected early childhood system for Montana’s youngest children and their families.
Whether you work with families, provide early care and education, lead a community organization, shape policy, support health and well-being, or simply care deeply about kids—there’s a place for you in this conversation.
Have a project, partnership, program, or promising practice to share? We invite you to submit a proposal for a poster session and help inspire the network.
Registration is free, including meals, and discounted hotel rooms are available. (The Great Northern room block rate is available on a first come-first served basis until Sept. 6.)
Come help build the system Montana’s children deserve!
About the Network
We know early childhood is a crucially important period of growth and development – the experiences and relationships we form in our earliest years have a lasting impact throughout our lives.
That’s why Montanans from all walks of life are coming together to form the Montana Early Childhood Network, an effort to coordinate and connect people, organizations, coalitions, and ideas, to ensure every child and family in Montana is considered in the decisions that shape their future. Membership is free, and the network is as diverse as the system it represents. Members engage in ways that align with their interests, experience and capacity
Be part of a movement creating lasting impact, starting from the very beginning.
Thank you to the network’s Design Team for their work and vision in laying out the foundation for this initiative:
Montana Head Start Association, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies – The Montana Coalition, MT DPHHS Office of American Indian Health, Headwaters Foundation, Montana Advocates for Children, School Administrators of Montana, Montana Chamber of Commerce, University of Montana Center for Children, Families, and Workforce Development, Callie Triller, Zero to Five Missoula County, Montana Cooperative Development Center, Raise Montana, and the MT DPHHS-Early Childhood and Family Support Division.