Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Military life, is a culture all its own, a culture that is extremely close knit and supportive, which made it easy to locate and contact early childhood professionals in other countries for part one of this blog assignment. I was able to make email contact with many early childhood professionals stationed in other countries, but have chosen to communicate with an early childhood professional stationed at Aviano Air Base in Italy, one at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, and one at Kadena Air Base in Japan. I am very grateful that all three professionals were eager to support my continuing education and professional development.

For part two of the blog assignment, I have decided to study the website Children’s Defense Fund at http://www.childrensdefense.org/ After viewing several early childhood related websites, I decided that the Children’s Defense Fund as it’s goals included addressing current issues in the field of early childhood, as well as promoting quality care, increasing academic access, and reduce family violence.