A huge shout out and thank you to several of our local partners who helped the CT Office of Early Childhood distribute nearly 87,000 masks to early childhood professionals from around the state! It was a united effort that was needed and appreciated by so many! Our partners included: CT Partnership for Children in Naugatuck, Stamford Cradle to Career, Bristol Early Childhood Collaborative ~ Making Bristol Better, New London LEARN, AHM Youth & Family Services in Hebron, Hartford Department of Youth & Family Services, and the New Haven Early Childhood Council. Our community collaborators were the United Way, Lulac Head Start of New Haven,  Willie Ware Center of Hartford, the Italian Center and JCC of Stamford, and the Naugatuck Event Center. It was a true testament to the strength and power of community collaboration and coordination as everyone pulled together to get the job done!