SUPPORTING FAMILIES TOGETHER ASSOCIATION INC

To increase access to high quality early care and education for all children.
To prevent child abuse and neglect and foster strong families.
To promote environments and interactions that support healthy children.
To ensure responsive systems and resources are in place to support quality early childhood experiences for every child.

The delivery of high quality training and customized technical consultation and coaching for early care and education professionals regarding a variety of content areas.
The support of families through resource and referral services, parent education, home visitation and community building efforts.
The provision of project management, quality assurance, professional development and networking services at the statewide level for a Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies and Family Resource Centers.

As a statewide association for Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies and Family Resource Centers, SFTA is well-positioned to support local community-based, child-focused organizations in implementing high quality, evidence-based programming. Through supports such as project management, quality assurance, professional development, advocacy and networking, the association's statewide reach contributes to bringing programming to scale, maximizing public and private funds and ensuring the quality of services for the benefit of Wisconsin's youngest children, their families and their educators.

1. From January to July of 2013, there was an increase in 3, 4 and 5 Star rated programs of 219 programs. Additionally as of July 2013, more children enrolled in Wisconsin Shares were in 3, 4 or 5 Star rated programs (28,072) than in 2 Star programs (15,208).
2. From January to July 2013, 4,427 YoungStar technical consultation visits were provided to 1,035 programs statewide. Additionally, in the first two quarters of 2013, CCR&Rs provided 115,542 interactions of technical assistance to providers and 584 trainings that reached 7,172 participants. Four hundred fifty-one of those participants attended a Pyramid Model training, 473 attended a Strengthening Families training and 332 attending a Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards Training.
3. Between baseline and midpoint, Active Early pilot sites increased the amount of physical activity offered in their programs by an average of approximately 27 minutes and demonstrated an increase in policy implementation of 13%.
4. During the first two quarters of 2013, 3,825 families received referrals for early care and education programs, which impacted 5,498 children. Additionally, 14,732 interactions of technical assistance to families were delivered.