Conferences

CCCRT works in collaboration with many organizations including:

• Local child care and family child care providers
• The Florida Partnership for School Readiness Board
• Early Intervention (Infants & Toddlers) & Pre-Kindergarten Programs
• Head Start administrators, teachers and paraprofessionals
• Public school systems
• Faith-based providers
• Health care personnel
• The private sector

CCCRT has been one of the major sponsors for the "One Goal Conference" in Tampa, Florida for the past 10 years. This conference has gathered together as many as 1,300 early education and care providers and leaders from around the state of Florida. The "One Goal Conference" was was originally called “The Pre-K Conference” and was sponsored by The Florida Department of Education. In the mid-nineties, it was specifically re-designed by a committee of experts in the various related fields in order to create a collaborative forum where concerns for young children and their families could be addressed.

In addition to the "One Goal Conference", consultants from CCCRT are committed to community service in the form of presenting workshops, 2-hour or full-day seminars and keynote addresses at the following conferences on Special Education and Early Childhood:

Statewide

• Early Childhood Association of Florida (ECA)
• One Goal: Building the Future Together, "Putting Families and Children First"
• Manatee Conference on Young Children
• Excellence in Early Childhood Education Conference (Gainesville)
• HEAD START, Meeting the Challenges of Tomorrow
• Circle of Care Conference
• Highlands County Early Childhood Education Conference
• Gateway School Readiness Conference
• Providing Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs
• 19th Annual Conference for Chldren with Special Needs
• Planting Seeds: Panama City Early Childhood Spring Conference

National

• The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• The Council for Exceptional Children’s Division of Early Childhood (DEC)
• American Educational Research Association
• Zero-to-Three