Communities

Click on the community of your choice to view: Community Action Plans, Community Action Team Members, Campus-Community Diversity Consortia, team updates and much more.

Click here to view a brief summary of each community's plans for promoting diversity in early childhood.

How the community teams came to be:

Each team consists of higher education faculty, early childhood practitioners, agency representatives, community leaders and family members of children with disabilities. Meeting with Birth-Kindergarten higher education faculty in each community, Walking the Walk staff help establish a Campus-Community Diversity Consortium (CCDC) of about 30-40 members. These people come together for a day to share ideas and concerns related to cultural and linguistic diversity in the field of early childhood intervention. By the end of the day, the CCDC identifies two major priorities for change in their specific community.

The CCDC in each community nominates a team of people (approximately 12) who they believe have the expertise, the dedication, the power and the resources to help them address their priorities for change to promote diversity in early childhood intervention in their community. This team of people is known as the Community Action Team (CAT). The CAT from each community comes to a three-day intensive institiute sponsored by Walking the Walk to talk about how to best promote cultural diversity in their community and how to do it by addressing the priorities identified by each CCDC.

Because communities have different priorities for change, wehave members of the community come together to talk about their priorities, to share ideas and to provide support for one another on a professional level. It is also important that the teams reflect the diversity of the community. Walking the Walk offers on-going support to each community by planning and organizing meetings; providing up-to-date information and diversity resources to participants; planning, facilitating and funding the institutes; and giving support and feedback as communities try to implement change.

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